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Oregon/Northwest News

More AI regulation ordered by Oregon governor

9 months in, Kotek’s Data Center Advisory Committee shares many questions, few answers

Oregon Legislative News

9 months in, Kotek’s Data Center Advisory Committee shares many questions, few answers

Oregon Campaign & Election News

Portland City Councilors Seek to Raise Taxes on Companies With Highly Paid CEOs and Exempt More Small Businesses From Business Tax

DeSantis, Drazan to speak at Oregon Republican Party event

Portland/Metro News

Deprioritize policing of psychedelic mushrooms, Portland councilors say

Portland Public Schools contract referred for potential criminal, ethics investigations

Mysterious deaths, violence, drugs haunt largest apartment complex managed by Portland housing authority

Portland City Councilors Seek to Raise Taxes on Companies With Highly Paid CEOs and Exempt More Small Businesses From Business Tax

Oregon Coast News

Oregon court rejects plea for tighter water-quality controls on Tillamook dairies

Central/Eastern Oregon News

Brock Smith accepts October 6th U.S. Senate debate invitation in Bend

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Salem Health made couple drive hours with dead infant, $10M suit says

Meet the Albany City Council Ward 2 candidates: Jonathan Gould

Meet the Albany City Council Ward 2 candidates: Rachel Biscoe

PeaceHealth IT outsourcing to cut less than 1.5% of workforce

Southern Oregon News

David Bolhuis announces candidacy for Mayor of Roseburg

Josephine approves ambulance rate hike for some patients

Enrollment, program offerings grow at Rogue Community College

Jackson County sheriff clarifies office’s stance on ICE division

Lots of politicians chafe at press criticism. No president has been so brazen as Trump.

Medford’s Main Street changes again with latest restriping project

Klamath National Forest to lift fire restrictions on Sept. 24

Five on 5 – U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley

Five on 5 – Oregon State Senator David Brock Smith – Running for U.S. Senate

RVTD to restore three previously cut services this year

AI/Technology News

AI export controls debate rages as Trump, Xi meet

Scoop: Trump allies open new front against Anthropic CEO over AI “doomerism”

White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US review

Business/ Economic News

10-year Treasury yield spikes to highest point since 2007

Benchmark mortgage rate tops 7 percent, highest in 2 years

Treasury yields rip higher on renewed inflation fear

Affordable cars are getting harder to find. Here’s what Oregon buyers should know

Education News

Students sue Education Dept., claiming it reported $4.6B in canceled loans as debt

Oregon students’ grasp of key subjects slowly grows, but still below pre-pandemic levels

Energy & Environmental News

Would a diesel export ban actually bring down prices?

Healthcare News

Lawsuit targets ‘medically frail’ Medicaid work requirement exemption

FDA nominee evasive on abortion pill but firm on vaccine safety

As measles surges in Pennsylvania, doctors warn about a new condition affecting babies

Housing News

Mortgage Rates Just Hit 7%. Here’s How the Housing Market Is About to Change.

Media News

White House TV pool in limbo amid high stakes Xi visit

Rising: September 24, 2026

CNN, MS NOW, Politico reporters regain entry to White House

White House reinstates access for banned reporters

Judge tosses Trump’s lawsuit against Des Moines Register

Natural Resource/Agriculture News

Appeals court clears 13,000-acre Oregon timber project

Transportation News

FAA blames error messages for switch to backup fiber line before outage

Weather News

Phone weather forecast often wrong? Here’s why

Adapting to extreme heat takes more than changing the clock

Court News

Judge tosses Trump’s suit against Iowa pollster

California Supreme Court rules sheriff who ran for governor must return seized ballots

Republicans are breaking from Trump on Iran. So what will they do about it?

Read the judge’s order blocking Trump’s media ban

A Trump-appointed judge just delivered a rebuke to the president’s media ban

Immigration/ICE News

Homan says ICE isn’t ‘going anywhere’ amid immigration enforcement scrutiny

Whitmer: Michigan to review ICE vehicle pursuit that resulted in fatal crash 

ICE ordered to fix “squalid” conditions at NYC detention facility

Homeland Security defends officers in immigrant’s fatal car crash in Michigan

US citizen injured in Illinois after ICE agents mistook him for fugitive and tried to arrest him

ICE is wasting tens of millions of dollars on ‘uninformed’ detention projects, report finds

International News

Xi comes bearing gifts: 2 giant pandas and 100,000 student visas

Live updates: UN delegates walk out of Netanyahu’s remarks; Trump, Xi begin Carney says he’s prepared for ‘extreme tail risk’ of US invading Canadahigh-stakes talks

Inside China’s mind on AI

Zelensky: U.S. pushing energy ceasefire, trilateral talks with Russia

Poll & Surveys

Latest Polls

Democrats lead in Texas Senate, gubernatorial race: Poll

Democrats leading in Michigan, New Hampshire Senate races: Survey

Collins leads Maine Senate race by 3 points: Survey

National Campaign/Elections

Error causes backlog of thousands of Texas voter registration applications

On the Ballot: 10 GOP House seats most likely to flip in November  

Marshall GOP primary challenger backs Democrat in Kansas Senate race

The Senate map expands: Which states are now in play?

At the Races: Pivot time for Republicans

Trump-backed Nevada Republican exaggerated Bronze Star award in two campaigns

Minnesota GOP Senate candidate denied saying she’s ‘embarrassed’ to be from state. CNN has receipts

National Political News

GOP lawmakers concerned after F-35 equipment ended up in China

House Democrat ‘far less worried’ about democratic socialists than Republicans ‘complicit’ with Trump

Carville: Trump ‘wants to destroy’ Washington, DC

Obama: Government is ‘so much less corrupt than probably it’s ever been’

Schumer, Jeffries sue to block federal agents at polls in November

As GOP revives anti-trans playbook, Dems try to turn the page

Exclusive: Thune plans another leader bid as Senate GOP fights to survive

National Congressional News

Senate GOP defeats resolution directing Trump to end Iran war as more Republicans sour on conflict

Senate committee advances Klomp as HHS No. 2

Permitting bill off until after midterms even as talks close in

Trump/Administration News

Trump complains CNN, MS NOW didn’t cover ‘made for Television’ Xi visit 

Pro-Trump TV ad funded by government draws fire from both sides

White House seeks to pressure Democrats to move faster on permitting reform deal

Amid surreal scenes, Trump flashes force and ‘friendship’ with China’s Xi

Trump courts Xi with pomp as China seeks greater global influence

Trump ad airing with government funding despite law against ‘propaganda’

Trump officials end review of how arch could harm historic sites

Federal agency says it’s moving on without DC, Virginia cooperation on Trump’s arch

Trump relishes showing Xi his Marine One chopper and new White House helipad

US government foots bill for television advertisement featuring Trump’s midterm messaging

Trump stokes anger for literally rolling out the red carpet for ‘one of his dictator friends’

Trump dismisses report on talks to add name to Ford’s Theatre: ‘Ridiculous lie’

Middle East Conflict News

Oil prices back up as U.S. and Iran trade threats to expand 7-month war

The Israeli leader called diplomats walking out of his speech ‘moral cowards’

Iranian president says country wants deal with US made before midterms

Netanyahu Returns to Familiar U.N. Stage More Isolated Than Ever

Saudi foreign minister warns Houthi threat is bigger than kingdom after barrage

Iran war sparks niche business for Trump-connected K Street

Iran’s president delivers defiant UN speech, calling US attacks ‘cowardly’

Iran’s president tells Fox anchor the war was ‘imposed on us’

Iranian president says country wants deal with US made before midterms

Trade & Tariff News

Trump trade rules apply differently to China, Canada, and Xi, Carney

Defense/Military

Rubio: Taiwan arms sales constrained by US needs, industrial base

U.S. troops help Ecuador arrest dozens linked to ruthless cartel

Opinion

Dirty tricks: Why is Congress voting to scrap California’s clean air protections? 

Reopen America’s golden door to refugees fleeing religious persecution

Are the Russians coming?

Trump admin removes 760K ObamaCare enrollees amid affordability crisis 

Democrats hit Republicans with do-nothing charges after abrupt House adjournment

Republicans are breaking from Trump on Iran. So what will they do about it?

Why Trump’s media ban backfired

We Could All Be Wrong About the Midterms

The GOP’s Farm Belt Economics Problem