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Oregon/Northwest News

Oregon drinking water system accessed in recent cyber attacks

Exit of two members of Oregon State Board of Education points to tension over changing state role

Oregon looks to how other states fund their transportation needs

Oregon Legislative News

Eastern Oregon state Rep. Greg Smith will pay $12K to settle latest ethics violations

Oregon lawmakers condemn ‘intimidation and violence’ after state senator says she was physically accosted

Wildfire News

Prosper Portland Declines to Provide Reviews of Loan and Grant Programs

Umatilla National Forest fires update

Oregon experts predict wildfire season will get worse — now and in the future

Woodrat Mountain Fire reaches 50% containment

The Wrights Spring Fire increases to 46,768 acres

Portland/Metro News

Portland weighs options with trains set to resume rattling past burned-out Centennial Mills site

Union Pacific Will Resume Freight Rail Through Gutted Building’s Collapse Zone

Prosper Portland Declines to Provide Reviews of Loan and Grant Programs

Central/Eastern Oregon News

Umatilla National Forest fires update

Southern Oregon News

Medford school district settles discrimination suit involving young student who has autism

Woodrat Mountain Fire reaches 50% containment

The Wrights Spring Fire increases to 46,768 acres

AI/Technology News

Meta, others lose appeal to drop thousands of social media addiction lawsuits

Exclusive: Sanders calls for AI development pause

Business/ Economic News

How Kevin Warsh is rewiring the Fed

Bessent says K-shaped economy is ‘over’

Energy & Environmental News

 US emergency oil reserve falls below 300M barrels for first time since 1980s

Healthcare News

Trump signs executive order to split up MMR vaccine

Trump order calls for fewer childhood vaccines

RFK Jr. aims to close loophole that allows new chemicals in food supply

Cassidy blasts vaccine order, saying Trump has no ‘expertise to make these changes’

Doctors push back on Trump executive order to change childhood vaccine schedule

Media News

Rising: August 10, 2026

Transportation News

The FAA wants to reboot the nation’s airspace. Alaska Airlines shows how it might work

Court & Justice News

Judge dismisses Adani case — but slams DOJ official’s ‘highly unusual’ conduct

Immigration/ICE News

‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: ICE’s detention crackdown swamps the courts

Trump administration revokes more than 175,000 visas

International News

Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks western Colombia, killing at least 111 people

Scoop: U.S. brokers secret deal on clandestine Syrian nuclear site

Ukraine’s push to cripple Russia in Crimea is just getting started, drone chief tells AP

Murphy says Israel’s government ‘not aligned’ with US national security objectives

National News

The U.S. just had its hottest month on record

At least 7 states report water system cyberattacks to FBI

Trump pooh-poohs Iran’s potential role in Minnesota water facility hacks

Poll & Surveys

50 percent say US military action in Iran will destabilize Middle East: Survey

Most favor stronger social media oversight: Survey

Voters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they’re open to big changes

This Trump cabinet member’s ‘lowest of the low’ poll numbers suggest they’re next to leave

National Campaign/Elections

Bernie’s revolution gets a test run for 2028 in Michigan and Wisconsin

5 notable contests left on the 2026 primary calendar

National Political News

White House officials tamped down efforts to oust Max Miller in final days

GOP senators release texts from Fauci’s government cellphone

Democrats investigating efforts to deport service members, families

National Congressional News

Senate GOP braces for a Trump August pressure cooker

Republicans face likely year-end test after punting Trump spending bill

Bipartisan House members introduce Graham’s Russia sanctions bill

Republicans vote down farm bill amendment enabling lawsuits against pesticide companies, a blow to MAHA

August recess was saved. The GOP’s voter ID bill, not so much

NIL bill advocates see goal line in sight after recess

Trump/Administration News

Scharf takes White House counsel job before midterms

Trump says there was ‘some contractor error’ during Reflecting Pool renovation

Trump extends Jones Act waiver, with limits, in bid to tamp down energy prices

Trump nominates Project 2025 author to be Interior Department watchdog

Trump says he hasn’t made a determination on Pirro’s future

Middle East Conflict News

Trump to Axios: “We are low-keying it” with Iran

Trump demands compensation for US from Iran

Defense/Military

Hegseth can’t persuade Republicans to back his big budget

Pentagon renames South Carolina air base after Graham

Opinion

Congressional Republicans have proven themselves unworthy to govern

Can Democrats still win if socialists take over their party? 

In Maine, the new politics meets the old

3 things RFK Jr. gets right about American health — even if you can’t stand him

Modernizing government technology is starting to pay off — let’s keep going

The 1930s brought America to its knees. The 2030s could knock it flat.