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Oregon Campaign & Election News

Oregon’s May voter turnout shattered previous records — and 1 wildly unpopular tax gets the credit

Portland/Metro News

Portland votes to increase arts tax, allow fewer people to pay

Portland looks to private organizations to save its struggling parks system

Mid-Year Assessments at PPS Show Progress in Reading, Slide in Math

Councilor Angelita Morillo’s Chief of Staff Files Discrimination Complaint

Inside the Collapse of Providence Health Plan

Central & Eastern Oregon News

Hermiston City Council approves 3.5% increase in garbage rates

Hermiston, Boardman to begin curbside recycling in July

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Takeaways as big money, some incumbents lose Salem City Council

Springfield school board member resigns amid board governance clashes

Southern Oregon News

Wyden hears concerns about nickel mining during town hall

Krause declares victory in Oregon Senate primary

Asante declines comment on reported first wave of budget-cutting layoffs

Krause won’t declare victory despite 201-vote lead over Moro in state Senate race

AI/Technology News

Warren proposes taxing AI companies so ‘winnings’ ‘benefit all Americans’

Amazon Strikes $6 Billion Deal With Snowflake for Its Agentic Computing Chips

Tech giants back new data center climate initiative

OpenAI and Anthropic dig in against each other on AI jobs apocalypse

AI’s education explosion leaves teachers in the dark

Business/Economic News

8 of the 10 most common jobs pay below average, federal data shows

‘Resume Botox’? Millennial job seekers trimming resumes to avoid ageism

Food insecurity increase for many Americans ‘remarkable’: NY Fed 

Toyota recalls more than 43K Tundra trucks due to engine concerns

Massachusetts becomes first state to recognize union for Uber, Lyft drivers

Stocks are rallying despite the Iran war and stubborn inflation. Here’s why.

What it would take to rebuild U.S. manufacturing might

The big China trade bet is over

What Oregon’s steady unemployment rate tells us about the economy

Workforce system alignment can help Oregonians weather coming economic, job instability, report says

Education News

What happened when one university set out to purge ‘woke’ classes

Energy & Environment News

New Orleans should prepare for eventual climate evacuation: Study

Health Care News

US to quarantine American Ebola patients in Kenya

Transportation News

New Ebola travel restrictions go into effect

Justice & Court News

Judge blocks West Point from enforcing faculty speech restrictions 

Biden files lawsuit in bid to block DOJ audio interview release

US Supreme Court settles long-running water dispute over dwindling Rio Grande

Immigration/ICE News

Mullin ‘drawing up plans’ to halt international flight processing in ‘sanctuary cities’

Mullin on DHS incidents involving senators: ‘Zero respect for career liberal politicians’

Homan: ICE detainees on hunger strike will be force-fed ‘if it gets bad enough’

Kim calls ICE actions ‘dangerous’ after facility confrontation

ICE is spending millions of dollars on iris scanners, expanding its arsenal of tech tools

International News

Canada selects Swedish surveillance planes over US bid

Is a shift “in favor of Ukrainian forces” behind a Russian warning to foreigners in Kyiv?

Zelenskyy asks Trump for more US air defense help against Russian missile attacks, Kyiv says

National News

White nationalist march sparks concern in Virginia: ‘Designed to intimidate’

US to quarantine American Ebola patients in Kenya

Uganda closes its border with Congo, where suspected cases of a rare Ebola type are surging

Longview paper mill disaster could be ‘deadliest industrial tragedy in modern Washington state history’

Polls/Surveys

Latest Polls

We asked 1,200 Americans what they dislike about Democrats and Republicans

Americans say Dems don’t stand up to GOP, GOP supports Trump too much: Poll

Latino voters turning away from Trump, but warnings remain for Dems, poll says

Buyer’s remorse hits Trump’s Latino voters

National Campaigns/Elections

Paxton defeat of Cornyn highlights Texas runoff night

James Talarico says he ‘missed the mark’ on ‘cringey’ comments as Senate race heats up

Crockett scores proxy win over Talarico in House race

Clyburn on South Carolina record-breaking early voter turnout: People were ‘very angry’

Alabama Republicans ask Supreme Court to clear way for congressional map

‘The Simpsons’ writer behind episode that ‘predicted’ Trump’s presidency now running for president

Platner holds 9-point lead over Collins in new poll

Talarico: GOP voters ‘whisper’ support for him ‘like they’re in … witness protection’

Bannon says Paxton beating Talarico in Texas will be ‘very tough’

Green loses Texas Democratic House primary runoff to Menefee

Why some Republicans worry about Paxton’s chances vs. Talarico after primary win against Cornyn

Trump and Democrats Get Paxton in Texas, the Senate Nominee They All Wanted

Republicans scrub anti-Paxton attacks from the internet after he becomes their nominee

Scoop: Mike Collins hires top Trump advisers ahead of Georgia runoff

In San Francisco’s bruising House race, even Pelosi is a target

Texas general election matchups are finally set. Here’s what you need to know

National Political News

Rising: May 27, 2026

Jill Biden says she thought Joe was ‘having a stroke’ during Trump debate 

Hantavirus, Ebola highlight political division over disease

John Thune breaks the ice with Ken Paxton

For far-right extremists, the rise of a new enemy: women

National Congressional News

Immigration funding bill derailed

Members of Congress won a battle to increase their pay. The war will go on.

Trump/Administration News

Live updates: Rubio says US won’t allow entry of Ebola patients, notes ‘progress’ in Iran talks

Trump administration begins making new requests of green-card applicants

Trump Says He Doesn’t Fear Political Fallout From Prolonged War With Iran

‘I don’t care about the midterms’: Trump says he’s in no rush to reach deal with Iran

Trump holds Cabinet meeting as negotiations continue to end Iran war

Trump’s retribution tour seeks new, more loyal MAGA guard

Texas takeaways: The night Trump tossed Cornyn

Scoop: Trump appoints Bondi to White House AI panel

Why Trump’s allegations that white people are being persecuted in South Africa have been denied

Middle East Conflict News

Trump rules out Iranian control of Strait of Hormuz as U.S. rejects deal outline

President Trump flips the script on Iran’s attempt to ‘outwait’ him as negotiations run on ‘fumes’

Iran cracks down on international news organizations

Trump on Oman, Strait of Hormuz: Behave ‘or we’ll have to blow ’em up’

Trump holds to maximum demands on Iran, threatens more strikes

Iran “negotiating on fumes,” Trump says, as Israel ramps up war in Lebanon

Trump threatens Oman in latest play to open the Strait of Hormuz

Defense/Military News

Judge blocks West Point from enforcing faculty speech restrictions 

VA studying MDMA as treatment for veterans’ PTSD

Pentagon puts building blocks in place for Cuba invasion

US will need years to replenish stockpiles of advanced weapons used in Iran war, new analysis finds

Opinion

Illinois and Colorado are coming for your airline miles

Democrats must stop talking about autopsies and start showing signs of life

Revisiting Bernie’s ‘Democratic Socialism’ speech, ten years later

TSA’s new remote screening pilot already needs a rework

The anatomy of Trump’s sweetheart settlement with his own Justice Department

Trump is liberating his Republican critics in Congress

What Trump’s ouster of John Cornyn means for Republicans

Why the F-35 fighter is a vital U.S. asset in this menacing era

A former U.S. ally is slipping into Iran’s orbit

RFK Jr.’s Hantavirus Epiphany

The Ken Paxton Republicans