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Oregon News

Trump memo declares forest emergency to ramp up logging in Oregon

Attorney General to hold Safeguarding Oregon: Federal Oversight Forum in Portland

Oregon Political News

A 2023 Bill Allowed Classified School Employees to Collect Unemployment Benefits on School Breaks

Bill would empower Oregon police to use drones to respond to 911 calls and chase suspects. Opponents are worried

Bill that would require Oregon county election clerks to livestream voting processes sparks concerns

Bill that would require school districts to ban cell phone use ‘bell to bell’ clears key hurdle in Legislature

Bill to repeal Oregon Wildfire Hazard Map advances, now headed to Senate

Metropolitan Portland News

Portland Police Union Tries to Join the Northwest Oregon Labor Council, Stirring a Quarrel

‘Build back trust’: Sewer board approves oversight after lavish spending revealed

Oregon Coast

Rep. Hoyle to join Senator Merkley for Townhalls in Curry, Coos, Douglas Counties 

Willamette Valley News

A pipeline company sought to grab land from ‘hundreds’ of people. Now its project is threatened

Southern Oregon

Judge says radio reporter’s lawsuit against MPD should go before jury

Business/Economic News

Stocks Sink Into the Close, Wiping Out an Early Rally

S&P 500 reaches its lowest level in more than a year as signs of negotiations fail to calm markets

Navarro: ‘I guarantee no recession, OK?’

Trump’s Tariffs Are Disastrous For Elon Musk

Transportation News

Inflation worries drive WA lawmakers to jack up I-5 bridge borrowing plan by $900M

Education News

Preschool For All continues to exceed goals, but falls short of demand

Energy & Environment

EPA withholds $85 million meant to fund environmental justice projects in Oregon

International News

Iran’s foreign minister says he will have indirect talks with US envoy over Tehran’s nuclear program

National News

Judge orders Trump White House to restore AP access

Legal status revoked for 985,000 migrants who entered US under Biden-era CBP One app

IRS agrees to share immigrants’ data with ICE

Exclusive: As Social Security services are cut back, millions of seniors face long drives

AG Pam Bondi says mistakenly deported Maryland man ‘should stay where he is’

National Campaign News

House Democrats unveil 35 Republican targets for 2026 midterms

National Political News

Trump budget blueprint in limbo as House conservatives dig in on opposition

Grassley says Congress ‘delegated too much authority to the president’ on trade

Republicans question US trade representative on Trump tariff strategy 

Treasury secretary looks to soothe Republican lawmakers on tariff drama

Jeffries challenges Johnson to debate the GOP budget on the House floor

Trump admin ousts another female military leader

Musk’s taunts at Navarro expose deeper rift in the Trump coalition

Trump’s new goal: Revive a major climate pollutant that power markets have turned against

Elon Musk calls Trump’s tariff adviser ‘dumber than a sack of bricks’

Tariff News

White House says 104% China tariffs set to go into effect at midnight

Trump Officials Signal Openness to Talks as Higher Tariffs Loom

Trump tariffs leave global corporations with nowhere to hide

Trump says Oregon congressman tried ‘to save our country’ with tariffs in 1930, ‘but it was too late’

Trump’s biggest gamble: Tariffs test his presidency, and the world

South Korea’s leader is taking a very different approach over Trump tariffs than China

DOGE News

Live on location, DOGE subcommittee looks at federal real estate

Nonprofits in limbo as DOJ deletes domestic violence grant notice

Animal research opponents ask DOGE to cut funding for Oregon National Primate Research Center

Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with firing thousands of federal workers

Opinion

O’Reilly: Trump needs to tell Americans, ‘Look, I know you’re suffering’

Justice Barrett has set a new judicial ethics standard — and it’s about time

Trump just handed Democrats the golden ticket. Tariffs have unified the American electorate.

‘How Ugly Is This Going to Be?’

Opinion: Putting problem-solving first amid Trump’s federal mayhem

Editorial: ‘Nobody’s evicting the library.’ True or false?

GUEST COLUMN: CASAs change young lives, but that requires funding