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Oregon News

Oregon child welfare agency plans more sleep safety training after infant’s death

Kotek appeals to Trump for more federal emergency assistance for Oregon’s spring floods

Oregon’s environmental battleground

Oregon Political News /Polls

Here’s how much you’d pay in payroll tax under Oregon’s proposed transportation bill

Oregon’s Lori Chavez-DeRemer, other Trump cabinet members claimed 2 primary residences

Oregon Wildfire News

Oregon fire map & tracker

InciWeb – Oregon Wildfire Tracker

Heroic efforts — and preparation — saved hundreds of homes near the Flat Fire

Portland/Metro News

Portland rally supports bill to restrict U.S. weapons shipments to Israel

Multnomah County bans concealed carry guns in county buildings

Portland mayor abandons bike event as pro-Palestinian, anti-ICE protesters shout him down

Portland mayor suggests Trump could crack down on city’s homelessness crisis, solicits donations for new shelters

City Council Ordinance Would Waive Tree Planting Requirements for Certain Internal Projects

Portland Public Schools Weighs Artificial Intelligence Policy

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Constituents scold Marion County Commissioners during Sept. 3 meeting

Springfield considers adding citywide payroll tax

Southern Oregon

Grants Pass council starts over on homeless site funding process

Medford City Council decides who will receive proceeds from marijuana tax

Local sheriffs seek federal judicial guidance on immigration enforcement

Regional emergency management reflects on changes since Almeda, Obenchain fires

‘On top of it all’: Rep. Reschke provides his ‘6-cents’ on Oregon’s amended transportation budget

Business & Economic News

The battle over the Fed’s future moves to the Senate

August job cuts highest since pandemic: Report

Google holds on to Chrome browser: What to know

Amazon must face class action over third-party sellers, judge rules

Average mortgage rate drops to lowest level since last October

Education News

How the Education Department is using civil rights laws to bring schools to heel

Energy & Environment

DOJ sues utility over Southern California fires

Wind developer sues Trump over effort to block offshore project

Health News

“Charlatan,” “ignorant”: Democrats blast RFK Jr. on vaccines

RFK Jr. says former CDC director Susan Monarez lied to Americans

Ousted CDC director: This “isn’t reform. It is sabotage.”

Transportation News

Frontier announces $299 ‘all you can fly’ pass through Friday: How it works

Former pilot to plead to criminal charges after endangering flight over Oregon skies

International News

Trump puts onus on Europe to pressure Putin in Ukraine conference call

Trump urges Europe to stop buying Russian oil and pressure China amid Ukraine war

US, Mexico agree to increase cooperation in fight against drugs

Denying famine, Israel threatens more curbs on Gaza aid

National News

“Calvinball”: Judges give rare public rebuke of Supreme Court

MAGA escalates U.S.–India tensions into cultural clash

Barrett: Supreme Court ‘should not be imposing its own values on the American people’

Justice Department launches criminal investigation into Fed’s Lisa Cook for mortgage fraud

National Campaign News/Polls

Newsom is becoming an obsession for Democrats beyond California

National Political News

“We’ve never seen this before”: Trump’s drug war looks like a real war

GOP discontent with RFK Jr. is growing

Vance attacks Senate critics of RFK Jr.

Trump asks Supreme Court to let him fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter

Trump’s strike on ‘narco-terrorist’ boat enters murky legal waters

McConnell: ‘There’s certain similarities right now to the ‘30s’

House Democrat compares Trump bill rebranding plan to Cracker Barrel

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made by RFK Jr. during Senate hearing

Despite shutdown deadline, little movement in Congress on spending deal

Military/Defense

The space warfare president

Trump to sign executive order renaming Pentagon the Department of War

Trump declares it’s ‘War’: Pentagon to revive historic name for Defense Department

Opinion

Trump Is Trying to Blackmail the Supreme Court

RFK Jr.’s Operation Warped Memory

Covid backlash gave anti-vaxxers a foothold. They’re taking it too far.

Can you read this? US low-literacy crisis is costing us $2 trillion per year 

Democrats haven’t won a positive campaign since Obama