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Oregon News

Striking workers in Oregon are a step closer to receiving unemployment checks

Oregon Got a Massive Federal Recovery Grant After 2020 Wildfires. Most of the Money Remains Unspent.

Report Finds Oregon “Weak” in Elementary Math Instruction

Oregon Political News

Progressive Democrats unveil plan for transportation funding driven by doubling of gas tax

Oregon’s governor could soon have more say in vacant US Senate seats

Costly rental application fees are eating into Oregonians’ budgets. Bill seeks to change that

Oregon senator fights Trump administration’s reversal on plastics in national parks

Key Oregon Democrats signal support for public transit, climate-friendly transportation framework

Slate of bills to modernize Oregon water laws await votes in final month of session

Metropolitan Portland News

Attorneys, Portland police square off over rules for accessing personnel files in court

Interim Directors Now Run Much of Multnomah County

Commissioner proposes pausing pay hikes for management to ease Multnomah County budget woes

UPDATE: Wilson says PPB budget cut could be restored

Oregon Coast

Astoria Job Corps center will close amid cuts to federal workforce program, eliminating 168 jobs

Senator Wyden makes town-hall stop in North Bend with Congresswoman Hoyle

Central/Eastern Oregon

Embattled Deschutes Sheriff Kent van der Kamp says he will retire Aug. 31

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Eugene after CAHOOTS: The end of the crisis response program, and the efforts to bring it back

Southern Oregon

Smith: ‘Morale coins’ were charged to an employee’s county debit card

People are rescuing seemingly abandoned fawns in local forests — ODFW says ‘stop’

Business/Economic News

Top moments from Axios’ AI+ Summit in New York

DreamWorks co-founder Katzenberg likens AI to CGI revolution
Businesses are raising prices after tariffs — even on unaffected goods

Growing number of Americans say tipping culture is ‘out of control’

Wall Street’s big rally stalls following some discouraging economic data

Amazon planning $10B investment in North Carolina for data center and AI campus

Grocery Outlet boasts prices cheaper than ‘elsewhere.’ A new lawsuit says it’s misleading customers

Health News

Top CDC vaccine adviser quits, warning America’s ‘most vulnerable’ could be at risk

Medicaid cuts could affect Oregon more than most states, analysts say

Transportation News

ODOT receives $83 million in disaster recovery reimbursement grants

Gas tax increases, new funding streams for ODOT proposed

Education News

Federal appeals court upholds order blocking Education Department closure

Energy & Environment

Separate signal from noise in energy policy

International News

Putin tells Trump he’ll hit Ukraine back for surprise drone attack

U.S. Is Redirecting Critical Antidrone Technology From Ukraine to U.S. Forces

Claims of war crimes in Gaza are ‘ridiculous,’ says adviser to Israeli government

The Dutch government has collapsed. What happens next?

National News

“Destroying a generation”: Katzenberg raises alarm on teens and tech

Judge blocks deportation of Boulder attack suspect’s family

U.S. vetoes UN security council resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza

National Campaign News

Democrats search for winning message in New Jersey gubernatorial primary

National Political News

Trump admin rolls back LGBTQ+ gains during Pride Month

House GOP expands its investigation of Biden’s health

‘Kill the bill’: Musk continues broadsides against the Republican megabill

Trump is brushing off Musk’s megabill attacks — for now

‘Where’s the budget?’: GOP lawmakers implore Vought to send a full request

Trump calls for scrapping debt limit, in megabill twist

Parliamentarian could nix the ‘revenge tax’ increase in GOP megabill

House GOP gets megabill’s official price tag: $2.4T

Trump Is Losing Patience With Musk’s Outbursts Over Megabill

Republicans Try to Discredit Experts Warning About the Cost of Tax Cuts

Haley on Trump call with Putin: ‘A backhanded slap to all of our allies’

Musk attacks underscores pent-up tensions with White House

Senate GOP talks cutting Medicare ‘waste, fraud’ to offset cost of Trump tax bill

House Dem to McMahon: Why is Education Department ‘taking its lead from Jim Crow’?

Hawley spars with legal professor over injunctions blocking Trump

Senate Environment and Public Works panel releases ‘big, beautiful bill’ text

Trump announces travel ban and restrictions on 19 countries set to go into effect Monday

Oregon lawmakers call for Crater Lake oversight after superintendent’s resignation

Tariff/Trade News

Inflation data threatened by government hiring freeze as tariffs loom

Why TACO trade gets under Trump’s skin

CBO sees lower deficits from tariffs, but with big caveats

Trump’s tariffs would cut US deficits by $2.8T over 10 years and shrink the economy, CBO says

Alaska Airlines cancels 14 Horizon flights a day through July over tariff uncertainty

Opinion

The GOP budget courts disaster, and for what? 

The ‘big, beautiful bill’ would secretly dismantle the civil service

Is Latino support for Trump cracking?

Senior care, already challenged by pandemic and Boomers aging, needs Medicaid