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Oregon News

ODOT data issues remain unresolved years after being identified

With two different ways to count them, it’s unclear how many Oregon children are homeless

Oregon Political News /Polls

Secretary of State Opens Investigation of Umpqua Public Transit District’s Response to May Election

Oregon Wildfire News

Oregon fire map & tracker

InciWeb – Oregon Wildfire Tracker

Portland/Metro News

Multnomah County offers detailed count of how many children receive local homeless services

Willamette Valley/Salem News

What to know about Salem’s water emergency and what’s being done to prevent it

Sweet Home plans to soon remove fluoride from public water supplies

Southern Oregon

Roseburg businesses receive tourism grants from city commission

Under budget strain, SOU could ax 15 majors

State Representative Pam Marsh holds Town Hall in Talent

Business/Economic News

More than 3,000 Boeing workers begin strike after rejecting a contract offer

In his own words: Trump’s comments over the past year on the jobs report

Vast majority of Americans stressed about rising grocery prices

Umpqua Bank sets date for switch to new name

Beaten-down carmakers smell fatter profits under Trump

Education News

Off-track: For formerly incarcerated Oregon youth, high school graduation — and success — look different

What Oregon borrowers need to know about student loan changes

Energy & Environment

Trump, Congressional Republicans propose big cuts for Western renewable energy labs, research

Trump eyes additional barriers to solar and wind energy

Health News

RFK Jr. ‘reviewing’ ouster of preventive task force members 

Natural Resource News

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose

International News

Russian volcano erupts days after monster quake shakes region

Israeli government votes to dismiss attorney general, escalating standoff with judiciary

Trump escalates nuclear tensions as Russia deadline nears

Trump says nuclear submarines ‘in the region’ of Russia

Witkoff set to visit Russia for ‘last chance’ talks on Ukraine war

Brazil Supreme Court orders house arrest of ex-president Bolsonaro

Netanyahu moves to fire attorney general prosecuting him for corruption

National News

Teen suicide is on the decline, new federal data shows

The Great Gerrymander War: California fires back at Texas power play

National Campaign News/Polls

Texas dispute highlights nation’s long history of partisan gerrymandering. Is it legal?

Why dozens of Democrats left Texas and how Republicans want to punish them

Rep. Nancy Mace kicks off South Carolina GOP gubernatorial bid. She says she’s ‘Trump in high heels

Texas redistricting war escalates across the country

In redistricting fight, Dems hamstrung by commissions they championed

Musk donates $5M to Trump super PAC

Hochul embraces gerrymandering in New York

National Political News

August recess can’t hide tensions ahead for Congress on spending and Trump nominations

State Department may require visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000 to enter the US

Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to ‘go to hell’

Abbott orders arrest of Democrats who fled Texas

Ex-federal prosecutor: Jack Smith charges ‘last thing’ Trump would want

CBO projects ‘big, beautiful bill’ would add $5 trilllion to deficit if temporary tax cuts extended

Noem: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to serve as model for detention centers nationwide

Trump wades into controversial ad campaigns: ‘Being WOKE is for losers’

Grassley places holds on 3 Trump Treasury nominees

States that boycott Israeli companies will lose disaster relief funds, DHS says

How the Supreme Court kickstarted the redistricting arms race

Speaker Johnson visits Israeli settlement in occupied West Bank

Tariff/Trade News

Trump threatens higher India tariffs, accuses nation of funding war in Ukraine

Opinion

‘The start of a long fight’: 3 writers on Texas’s political showdown

Why did these prominent Americans attend a festival of Russian supremacy?

The BOOTS Act is protectionism masquerading as patriotism

Texas Reopens the Gerrymander Wars