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Oregon News

 Trump’s tariffs could translate into bigger job losses for Oregon’s already struggling manufacturing sector

Push to ban Oregon mail-in voting gains ‘momentum,’ GOP backer says. Opponents have their doubts

Oregon’s Kotek joins other Democratic governors telling Trump not to mobilize National Guard troops for law enforcement

Can Trump deploy the National Guard in Oregon? Yes and no

Funding cuts, immigration crackdowns threaten Oregon Afghan refugee program

Labor unions are much stronger in Oregon than nationally

Oregon CASA programs face dire funding crisis

Oregon Political News /Polls

After false starts, Oregon House passes transportation tax package

Oregon House passes transportation funding package in major win for Democrats

Democrats in Oregon Legislature once again struggle to fulfill promises on transportation funding plan

Gov. Tina Kotek’s transportation funding package clears Oregon House, moves to Senate

Oregon’s special session stumbles on first day, as House waits for enough people

Oregon road funding bill, slightly slimmer, moves forward

House fumbles first day of special session for transportation funding, labor unions irate

After rough start, Oregon lawmakers strike potential deal on transportation funding

How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map

Oregon lawmakers join call for answers on firefighter arrests at Bear Gulch

Oregon Wildfire News

Oregon fire map & tracker

InciWeb – Oregon Wildfire Tracker

Rebuilding home — and a life — 5 years after fires changed everything

Firefighters make progress against Flat Fire, reach 52% containment

Firefighter from Oregon detained by Border Patrol while fighting wildfire

Kotek directs agencies to begin Rowena wildfire cleanup at no cost to residents

Oregon wildfires: 22,000-acre Emigrant Fire expected to grow even more

Crews work to suppress Juniper Canyon Fire in Umatilla County

Sugar Loaf Fire has slight growth

Lightning strikes ignite 34 forest fires in Klamath National Forest

Portland/Metro News

St. Helens High School leaders failed to act on claims of abuse for years, report finds

City Recovers $6.7 Million From Scam That Targeted the Water Bureau

Central & Eastern Oregon News

Trouble in Milton-Freewater City Hall?

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Cottage Grove’s South Lane Clinic supports rural access to health care

Southern Oregon

Judge recuses himself from election case

City of GP water bills could go higher

Siding with timber industry, feds decide against protecting So. OR, NorCal fishers

Medford, Ashland men arrested over alleged black-market cannabis, BHO lab operation

Deep RVTD bus service reductions begin valleywide on Tuesday

Labor Day rally draws hundreds of union members, activists

Crater Lake-Klamath Regional Airport to receive $7.76 million from Biden administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds

Business & Economic News

Trump wants to fire a member of the Federal Reserve board. Here’s why that matters for you

Employees ‘job hugging’ amid labor market uncertainty

Education News

Foreign students face murky visa conditions under Trump

Health News

Big Oregon Hospitals Hemorrhaged Money Early This Year

“This is unacceptable”: Former CDC directors condemn RFK’s upheaval

Trump tries to have it both ways on COVID vaccines

Former CDC directors sound alarm over Kennedy’s agency shake-up

Natural Resource News

Public Safety

Rural South, West states have highest violent crime rates: FBI

Noem: More cities could see federal law enforcement on streets, even in red states
Trump declares DC a ‘crime free zone’ in push for cities to ‘work with us’

International News

China’s Xi and India’s Modi vow to resolve border differences at meeting in Tianjin

Houthi rebels say Israeli airstrike killed their prime minister in Yemen’s capital

Mexican president vows U.S. agreements “without subordination”

Hundreds killed after 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes Afghanistan

Pope Leo urges end to “pandemic of arms” after Minnesota shooting

US suspends visas for most Palestinian passport holders: Reports

National News

Federal judge blocks Trump’s effort to expand speedy deportations of migrants

Judge halts deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children

National Campaign News/Polls

Democrats face an increasingly frustrated base over redistricting

‘Giddy’ Republicans cheer Mamdani’s impact on Democrats

Ranking the Democratic contenders for president in 2028

Schwarzenegger steps back into political arena in redistricting crusade

National Political News

What Trump’s new choice of presidential hero says about his evolving goals

A House committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case has withdrawn a subpoena to Robert Mueller

Government shutdown looms as Congress returns after monthlong August recess

1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows

Trump moves to revoke $5 billion of approved foreign aid spending

Scoop: List of jobs covered by Trump’s “no tax on tips” (See if you qualify)

Wave of exits testing House Freedom Caucus’ staying power

‘What else needs to be improved?’: Inside Trump’s relentless quest to leave his mark on Washington

GOP leaders face rocky September with even slimmer House majority

Senate GOP readies for high-stakes battles as work resumes in Washington

Noem accuses CBS of ‘deceptively’ editing interview about Abrego Garcia

Tariff/Trade News

Most of President Trump’s tariffs are illegal, U.S. court rules

Appeals court finds Trump tariffs unconstitutional but leaves them in place for now

Government Employee News

Judge in Fed firing case looks to speed proceeding

Opinion

Oregon’s different way on liquor store privatization

Bad news awaits Republicans returning to DC

What’s a Woman? Battleground Democrats can’t answer.

Workers and their unions, not corporations, made manufacturing jobs into good jobs