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Oregon/Northwest News

Oregon Gov. Kotek is in no rush to sign her own transportation funding bill

Cascadia quake may create ’emergency situation’ in San Andreas Fault Zone, study warns

Washington’s paid leave program heads toward a fiscal cliff

Grant money for local park, recreation projects open to Oregon cities, counties until Nov. 17

Oregon’s Most Dangerous Job Is Not What You Might Expect

Oregon seeks White House records in Trump National Guard deployment case

Great Oregon ShakeOut encourages earthquake readiness

Oregon Political News

70 ‘No Kings’ protests planned against Trump in Oregon

Portland/Metro News

Absurdity inflates at Portland’s ICE protests

PPS’s Preliminary Seismic Upgrade Plans Leave Some Advocates Shaken

PPS Tries to Patch Shortage of Paraeducator Substitutes

U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

Central & Eastern Oregon News

Hermiston to consider budget cuts to boost spending on public defenders

Milton-Freewater City Council fires city manager

Willamette Valley/Salem News

Krishna Namburi appointed new Salem city manager

On the Nov. 4 Linn County ballot: A public safety levy

Southern Oregon

Klamath River ecosystem is booming one year after dam removal

Laid-off RFP Dillard plywood employees hold “zombie” informational picketing

Roseburg City Council not giving up on urban campground

Grants Pass City Council shies away from large pay raises for its nonunion workers

Fire season ends in Jackson, Josephine counties: 3,558 acres burned in 281 fires

Business & Economic News

FDA expands cinnamon recall to 16 brands with elevated lead levels

Why experts are worried about an AI bubble in the stock market

Instagram says it’s safeguarding teens by limiting them to PG-13 content

Wall Street Is Firing on All Cylinders, Fueled by Deals and Trading

The global economy is still on a path to slower growth, IMF says

Education News

OPB’s First Look: The rise of AI in Oregon schools

What Oregonians need to know about the pros and cons of artificial intelligence in local schools

In reading, the nation’s students are still stuck in a pandemic slump

Energy & Environment

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

US rejects bid to buy 167 million tons of coal on public lands for less than a penny per ton

The West’s power grid could be stitched together — if red and blue states buy in

Housing

Can states, and a little bit of faith, convert church land into affordable housing?

Federal judge blocks anti-DEI restrictions from housing and violence prevention grants

Health News

Immigration crackdown sets off alarms in hospitals

Hospital-at-home program collateral damage of the shutdown

Northwest Kaiser nurses seek double-digit wage increase over 4-year contract

Transportation News

GOP leaders say airports will be ‘flooded’ with cancellations if Democrats don’t budge

Some airports refusing to play Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown

Court Battles

Supreme Court lets stand Sandy Hook families’ $1.4B defamation judgment against Alex Jones 

Supreme Court won’t wade into Michigan ‘fake elector’ bid against state

Supreme Court won’t weigh California takedown of ‘misleading’ 2020 election video

Supreme Court reopens debate on key part of Voting Rights Act

Judge sets hearing to discuss possible extension of order barring Oregon National Guard in Portland

Judge signals lawsuit blaming government for fires can proceed

International News

US revokes visas of over 50 Mexican politicians in drug cartel crackdown

Russia accuses Kremlin critics, antiwar activists of plotting coup

Trump says Argentina assistance dependent on election results for ally Milei

Trump warns Hamas to disarm or face action as hostages are released in Gaza deal

Trump threatens to disarm Hamas ‘quickly, and perhaps violently’ as ceasefire wobbles

Military seizes power in Madagascar following anti-government protests

Trump threatens to pull support for Argentina if its politics don’t align with US

National News

N.Y., N.J. streets flooded as nor’easter slams U.S. East Coast

‘OPB Politics Now’ talks with Illinois, Texas reporters as President Trump’s push for military in US cities ramps up

National Campaign News

Janet Mills injects Trump into her Maine Senate campaign

Polls/Surveys

Most Americans say taxing the rich is best way to reduce federal debt: Gallup

National Political News

Senate GOP sets up single vote to reopen government Tuesday

Speaker Johnson embraces Freedom Caucus tactics in shutdown fight

Live updates: Trump honors Kirk with Medal of Freedom; Senate to vote as shutdown hits Day 14

Greene: ‘There’s a lot of weak Republican men’

House GOP leader dubs upcoming ‘No Kings’ protest a ‘Hate America’ rally

Trump’s budget office prepared to ‘ride out’ shutdown

Trump: List of permanent Democratic program shutdowns coming Friday

The small cracks of dissent emerging in Trump’s GOP

‘If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked’: 7 months of shocking private messages among rising GOP leaders

Trump’s visa fee sparks rare bipartisan interest in immigration legislation

4 GOP ideas for an Obamacare subsidies compromise

Trump and budget chief Vought are making this a government shutdown unlike any other

Tariff/Trade News

U.S. farm exports to China cut in half as trade beef deepens

Military/Defense

Hegseth sends goodbye emoji to news outlets protesting press policy

Barbara Starr: Hegseth should ‘buckle up’ for tougher media coverage

U.S. kills 6 alleged drug smugglers in new strike off Venezuela, Trump says

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon’s new press rules

Opinion

With executive orders, who needs Congress anymore?

What an American communist really looks like 

A shadow looms over Nevada’s solar boom — and the whole country

Trump’s Hostage Triumph in Jerusalem