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Oregon News

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Oregon Political News

Bill to grant striking workers unemployment pay fails final vote in Oregon Senate

Oregon transportation bill gets panned by Republicans – even those who negotiated it

Bill enacting nation’s strictest limits on corporate health care influence signed by Gov. Kotek

Oregon ‘freedom to read’ library bill heads to governor’s desk

Environment, social justice groups withdraw support for governor’s key groundwater protection bill

Oregon Senate Rejects Amended Bill Granting Striking Workers Unemployment Benefits

Senate refuses to OK bill to allow unemployment for striking workers

Bill to make civil commitment in Oregon easier moves forward

Proposed ODFW budget closes hatcheries. increases fishing, hunting fees

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Corvallis resumes NW Natural debate; should the carbon-based utility get a franchise?

Attorneys: Immigrants arrested at Eugene ICE appointments

Southern Oregon

Group says it’s pursuing property for a managed homeless site in Grants Pass

Rep. Marsh says unspent money from massive 2020 wildfire recovery grant is ‘terribly frustrating’

Klamath County considering employee buyout programs to mitigate dire budget shortfall

Lakeview faces shutdown

Business/Economic News

Wall Street CEOs are cycling through the five stages of tariff grief

Trump’s tax bill could raise taxes on foreign companies, hurting investment from abroad

Nike laying off more technology workers

Oregon clean energy company files for bankruptcy, claiming more than $300 million in debt

Health News

Senators grill NIH director in budget hearing: 4 takeaways

Collins calls Kennedy’s firing of vaccine experts ‘excessive’

Education News

All the ways the Trump administration is going after colleges and universities

International News

Chinese scientists suspected of smuggling plant pathogen into U.S.

National News

Protests over immigration raids popping up across the country with more planned

Judge denies motion to block federal troops from carrying out law enforcement

National Campaign News

Libertarian Party’s 2024 VP nominee announces he’s joining GOP

National Political News

What powers does Trump have to send troops to cities — even if they don’t want them?

U.S. Agencies Tracked Foreigners Traveling to See Musk

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ gets boost from LA immigration protests

Democrats rage against Trump’s moves in LA, as some worry about optics

Military members boo Newsom, Biden and the press during Trump speech

Stephen Miller wages war on the GOP’s libertarians

Senate GOP deeply divided over cutting cost of ‘big, beautiful bill’

Trump pledges “very big force” for June 14 parade protests

Mike Johnson says Newsom should be “tarred and feathered”

What to know about counterprotests to Trump’s June 14 parade

Nearly half of U.S. adults disapprove of Trump’s handling of protests: Poll

Unrestrained Trump flirts with Insurrection Act as Marines deploy to L.A.

Top Republican breaks with Trump’s Marine deployment to LA

Tariff/Trade News

Who controls tariffs?

Expert: Tariffs could bring more headaches than benefits for ag

Government Employee News

House GOP effort to lock in DOGE cuts faces Republican resistance

Judge determined OPM broke law with DOGE access to data

Opinion

Democrats ignored border politics. Now the consequences are here.

Why Biden’s health cover-up is worse than Watergate

The Trump-Musk divorce might be the event that finally might splits MAGA 

The revolution will be monetized: How Steve Bannon conned the working class