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Oregon Political News

Money, special education, cellphones and safety: Some key education bills in Oregon’s 2025 legislative session

For Gov. Kotek, natural resources adviser, water tops list of 2025 environmental priorities

In Oregon’s strained local news ecosystem, a longtime far-right political figure has found opportunity

Lawmakers Will Consider Unemployment Benefits for Striking Workers

Officials tell SNAP users to be vigilant after feds stop replacing food benefits lost to fraud

Oregon lawmakers to Providence, strikers: Get a deal

Metropolitan Portland News

County Commissioner Meghan Moyer Questions Price Tag on Animal Shelter

Willamette Valley Area

Nicholas Kristof to deliver OSU commencement address

Southern Oregon

Grants Pass clears city-owned homeless campsite after decision by new leadership

Downtown Medford kids’ museum sets expansion at Carnegie Library

Providence health care strike hits 3rd week; union solidarity rally in Medford

Business News

Chinese tech startup DeepSeek says it was hit with ‘large-scale malicious attacks’

How China’s DeepSeek shook up US markets, by the numbers

Kohl’s announces further store closures in early 2025: List of stores that will close

Nvidia slides 17% on concerns over outlook on AI spending

Health News

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

Trump’s early actions on health agencies roil medical researchers

Education News

House proposes $10 million boost to Oregon vet school funding

International News

Canada’s PM hopeful lays out plan to fight Trump’s tariff threats ‘where it hurts’

Northern Gaza is shattered. The spirit of returning Palestinians is not

At Auschwitz memorial, survivors see echoes of the past in rising antisemitism

National Political News

Trump Justice Department says it has fired employees involved in prosecutions of the president

Trump orders ban foreign aid, rescind federal funds guidance for abortion

Trump wants House GOP to form ‘a governing coalition’ to pass his priorities

Live updates: Trump addresses House Republicans; Senate confirms Treasury secretary

Speaker Johnson brushes aside economic concerns associated with ICE raids

Scott Bessent confirmed as treasury secretary, giving him a key role in extending Trump’s tax cuts

Senate tees up final vote on Duffy nomination to run Transportation Department

Trump plan to upend civil service advances under new name

Opinion

Why government needs independent inspectors general

The Trump-Musk bromance is breaking up and could break America

Latin America will not put up with Trump’s new Monroe Doctrine

America 2025: A glimpse through Trump’s looking glass