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Oregon News

Who is Karin Immergut, the judge who ruled against troops in Oregon?

She alleged discrimination. 5 years later, why isn’t Oregon done with its investigation?

Oregon Political News

Oregon politicians react to judge barring National Guard troops from Portland

Republicans ready to lead Oregon gas tax referendum effort

Oregon Wildfire News

Oregon fire map & tracker

InciWeb – Oregon Wildfire Tracker

Portland/Metro News

Trump administration orders Texas National Guard to Oregon, Kotek says

Trump claims ‘Portland is burning’ while federal agents escalate ICE protest response

Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act in Portland

Portland’s weekend of ICE protests: Tear gas, National Guard restraining orders and false claims of a city burning to the ground

OPB’s First Look: Trump turns up the heat on Portland

Federal judge blocks federalized guard from deploying to Oregon

Federal tactics on Portland protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump

California, Oregon sue to block Portland deployment, Trump adds Texas

Judge Blocks Other States’ Troops From Patrolling Portland

California National Guard Members Arrive in Portland

National Guard could mobilize in Portland depending on appeals court ruling: What’s next

Portland Public Schools celebrates test score recovery, but who’s left behind?

Budget shortfalls prompt Clackamas County to cut public and behavioral health jobs

Southern Oregon

Douglas County awarded millions in wildfire defense funds

Business & Economic News

What happens to returned Amazon purchases? They end up at these Portland stores selling items for cheap

Oregon job gains are greatest at the top of the wage scale

OpenAI signs deal for AMD chips after Nvidia agreement

Apple removes ICEBlock from its App Store

Education News

Governor Softens Position on Preschool for All

Health News

CDC stops recommending COVID-19 shots for all, leaves decision to patients

CDC endorses RFK Jr. vaccine panel recommendations

Acting CDC director endorses Trump’s call to split up MMR vaccine

Trump signals openness to deal with Democrats on health care

Natural Resource/Agriculture News

How the Government Shutdown Affects Oregon Forests and Trails

Transportation News

American Airlines announces bag policy change intended to speed up boarding

Duffy delivers pizzas to air traffic controllers, offers shutdown warning

International News

France’s prime minister resigns after less than a month in office

Trump says he’s “sort of made a decision” on supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine

Trump says Hamas ‘agreeing to things’ in ceasefire talks

Court Battles

Project Veritas’s challenge to Oregon secret recording law turned away by Supreme Court 

Supreme Court declines to revive Laura Loomer RICO suit against Meta, Twitter

Supreme Court won’t revive Louis Farrakhan defamation suit against Jewish groups

National News

Supreme Court term will tackle executive power, executive power and executive power

Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for ‘balanced and fact-based’ news

Chicago and Illinois sue to stop Trump’s Guard deployment plan after Portland ruling

Trump, tariffs and trans rights: The Supreme Court’s history-making term

Immigrants nationwide placed in solitary confinement for weeks, report says

Trump looms large in Chief Justice John Roberts’ legacy

Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases

National Campaign News

Ex-North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper raises $14.5M in Senate bid to succeed Tillis

Polls/Surveys

Survey: Most Jewish Americans say antisemitism now part of daily life

Americans remain wary of electing a female president, new poll reveals

National Political News

Trump says he’s open to health care deal with Democrats as shutdown hits Day 6

Social Security chief to be IRS CEO

Mike Johnson rejects Hakeem Jeffries’ shutdown debate demand

Trump open to invoking the Insurrection Act

Schumer denies bipartisan health care talks after Trump’s Oval Office claim

White House: Trump is not talking to Democrats

Johnson gives ‘assurance’ to top Senate Dem he’ll move government funding bills

Live updates: Senate votes on ending government shutdown; Illinois, Chicago sue over National Guard deployment

Greene pushes English-language law ahead of ‘perverse unwanted’ Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance

Ocasio-Cortez tells supporters to ‘laugh at’ Stephen Miller’s ‘insecure masculinity’

Johnson says he told Jeffries that protesting Trump’s trolling would ‘make it worse’

Top Democrat bashes Republican refusal to swear in Grijalva: ‘Epstein cover up’

VA spends billions on dubious, even fraudulent disabilities benefits

Lone House Democrat to vote with Republicans on funding bill draws a primary challenge

‘A disgrace’: Former special counsel monitored private calls of Republican senators

Trump flips his shutdown approach, leaving Congress to take the heat

Tariff/Trade News

Trump says tariffs on medium- and heavy-duty trucks will go into effect Nov. 1

Rural airline service subsidies could expire in days: Trump administration

Trump, Brazilian president talk tariffs in ‘positive’ call

Government Employee News

Federal workers sue the Education Department over partisan shutdown emails

Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers demand oversight ahead of Pam Bondi hearing

Military/Defense

Trump to sailors on pay held back by shutdown: ‘Do not worry about it’

Opinion

Time for a cup of transparency

Surprise — NPR never really needed all that taxpayer money in the first place!

Trump slams Doocy for Dem interview, tells FOX to ‘get on board!’ 

America, land of hate 

Democrats won’t save democracy — they don’t even practice it

The Trump Rules for Radical Schools

Even a Trump-picked judge saw through his Portland militarization