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Oregon News

Portland mayor and Oregon governor propose suspending development fees to boost housing construction

State to offer rebates on electric vehicle purchases again

Looming earthquake will do more than shake the ground, report warns

Oregon Political News

Oregon hospitals’ bleak financials leaves them vulnerable to tariffs, Medicaid cuts

Oregon arts advocates want more state support as federal funding wanes

OPB Politics Now’: The rise of placeholder bills in Oregon’s Legislature

A ban on book bans: Oregon bill would protect access to library materials

Old split-jury verdicts in Louisiana could be revisited under advancing proposal

House Republicans propose cutting services, not hiking taxes, to pay for Oregon road upkeep

Metropolitan Portland News

County Chair’s Proposed Budget Halves Employment Program for Homeless People

Hundreds gather peacefully for Portland May Day protests, march through downtown

Many Multnomah County employees fear retaliation for filing discrimination complaints, report finds

Central/Eastern Oregon

Homeless evictions move ahead on Central Oregon federal forest

Willamette Valley News

People march in Salem for International Workers’ Day: Updates

Business/Economic News

Apple Says Most of Its Devices Shipped Into U.S. Will Be From India, Vietnam

Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk

McDonald’s store traffic falls unexpectedly as diners grow uneasy about economy

Natural Resource News

Farmers on the front line of Trump’s trade war

Health News

RFK Jr.’s latest vaccine plan threatens future of shots, experts say

Education News

Oregon superintendents present united front against federal actions

Republicans say they will still push education based on legal status

Energy & Environment

Trump administration sues 4 blue states over climate suits, laws

Rapid snowmelt threatens US West water supply outlook

International News

US and Ukraine sign minerals deal: What to know

Carney: Trump territorial expansion isn’t ‘ever going to happen’

National News

Judge rules Trump’s use of wartime act for deportations is illegal

The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelan migrants

National Political News

Trump replaces Waltz with Rubio, for now, after series of missteps

For Trump Supporters, an ‘Exciting’ First 100 Days

Waltz exit adds to ‘chaos’ in Trump’s national security team

GOP lawmakers to introduce bill requiring app stores to verify users ages

House votes to overturn California gas car ban — again defying internal watchdog

Oversight panel endorses cuts to federal retirement system

Scoop: Trump releasing 2026 budget tomorrow

Trump’s next national security adviser will be his sixth

Trump is not ‘commander’ of Congress, top GOP appropriator says

Trump’s VA strands thousands of veterans by ending a key mortgage program

Oregon senator proposes ditching the penny, making the nickel the smallest U.S. coin

Tariff/Trade News

Bessent: ‘We put China to the side’ in trade negotiations

Senate rejects resolution to stop tariffs in tie vote

Opinion

GUEST COLUMN: Southern Oregon’s transportation crisis needs action now

‘We win, they lose’ — GOP should take Reagan’s approach when it comes to unions

To rebuild America’s maritime fleet, Congress must create demand for US ships

Egg companies are getting government bailouts while price-gouging consumers

Whose responsibility is eastern Oregon flooding?