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Oregon News

Former Oregon Youth Authority employee faces criminal charges for grooming, assaulting child in custody

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek weighs standing order to protect COVID-19 vaccine pharmacy access

Gov. Tina Kotek appeals Trump decision denying emergency assistance for Oregonians impacted by floods

Oregon wood treater kept polluting a town’s water source — but regulators didn’t stop it

Oregon Political News /Polls

Oregon’s special session is on hold, but $178 daily payments to lawmakers still flow

Pair of Oregon lawmakers propose to unmask federal agents

Coastal Oregon lawmaker switches party affiliation, registering as Democrat

Oregon House, Senate must convene during special session pause under state constitution

Bentz defends ending in-person town halls, citing ‘rude, demeaning behavior’

Oregon Wildfire News

Oregon fire map & tracker

InciWeb – Oregon Wildfire Tracker

5 years after Labor Day fires, here’s what Oregon leaders have learned

The UNTOLD story of The ‘miracle house’

Portland/Metro News

New housing project opens as step toward restoring Portland’s Albina neighborhood

‘Like living in hell’: Trump hints Portland could be next city to see National Guard on streets

Airing Internal Rift, Major OHSU Labor Union Suspends Top Leaders

Portland Public Schools Proposes Spending $16 Million on Center for Black Student Excellence

Portland convention business poised to drop next year — then bounce back

Central & Eastern Oregon News

Organizers and Bend city staff to install memorial for slain Black man

Hydrogen production complex scrapped near Boardman

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Report: $3 to $5 million needed to attract airlines back to Salem

Southern Oregon

Judge orders West to pay Morgan $28,721 in fees

West violated campaign finance law during his own anti-recall efforts, Oregon elections division rules

In emails, West threatened new commissioners with recall if they aided 4-H, library

Grants Pass restarts homeless grant process after first round ‘a fiasco’

Business & Economic News

475 detained in immigration raid at Hyundai plant in Georgia

Willamette Valley golf putter company lines up a 9-figure sale

Nike sex discrimination lawsuit could go to trial after class settlement falls apart

U.S. economy should accelerate by fourth quarter, Bessent says

Energy & Environment

Another hydrogen developer exits regional clean energy project

Health News

Florida surgeon general: No data projection done before move to repeal vaccine mandates

Trump expresses reservations over Florida eliminating vaccine mandates: ‘We have to be very careful’

Former CDC official pokes holes in Kennedy’s claims of being briefed by experts

RFK Jr. says he sees no successes in agency he leads

International News

Russia assaults Ukraine with over 800 drones and decoys, the largest such attack in the war

South Korea says it has reached a deal with the US for the release of workers in a Georgia plant

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to resign

Trump says he’s ready to move to second phase of sanctions against Russia

Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea, disrupting internet access in Asia and the Mideast

National News

Chicago churches urge calm resistance ahead of expected federal intervention

Trump threatens Chicago with apocalyptic force and Pritzker calls him a ‘wannabe dictator’

National Campaign News/Polls

Most oppose Trump deploying National Guard to DC, other cities: Poll

Republicans brace for redistricting ‘catastrophe’ in California

‘It’s bad politics’: Why California Republicans are avoiding Trump — and muscling in behind Schwarzenegger

National Political News

Trump campaigned on closing the Education Department. Reality is more difficult.

FEMA would be a Cabinet-level agency under bipartisan bill approved by US House panel

Trump administration investigates Medicaid spending on immigrants in blue states including Oregon

3 Trump cabinet members call 2 homes primary residences on mortgages

Distrust clouds Democratic strategy amid shutdown battle with GOP

Trump says he’s ‘not going to war’ with Chicago after Democratic criticism

Senate GOP frustration grows after quick exits of key Trump officials 

Trump plan to move USDA spurs brain drain fears

Trump defends RFK Jr.: ‘He’s a different kind of a guy’

Rep. Vasquez: ‘Democrats are ready’ to prioritize immigration enforcement, with reform

“Despicable and thoughtless”: Vance’s drug vessel strike praise slammed by senator

Trump’s team plans harder test for U.S. citizenship — and more leeway to reject applicants

Congress eyes stock-trading ban — with tax break sweetener

Tariff/Trade News

Treasury would face “terrible” tariff refund hit on SCOTUS loss, Bessent says

Military/Defense

Trump 2.0 refashions U.S. military muscle

Opinion

Oregon’s environmental battleground

Opinion: UO should take humanities off the chopping block

American brain drain is a colossal self-inflicted wound

Trump is breaking Social Security

America: You’re on your own now to make medical decisions

Can Trump’s ‘War Department’ Win a War?