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Participants of the "Kill the Cuts" rally against the Trump administration’s cuts to research funding gather outside the Wilshire Federal Building after walking from the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on April 8, 2025.
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CalMatters
Education
‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules
Mikhail Zinshteyn
The judge has previously sided with UC scholars several times since June in halting Trump’s termination of science and health research funding. The latest ruling is arguably the most sweeping yet.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to add to its six detention facilities in California with a new one in the Bay Area. Detainees at an ICE Processing Center housing unit in Adelanto gather in a common area on Aug. 28, 2019.
Chris Carlson
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Law and Justice
Oregon immigrant advocates ask court for class action status in suit against feds
Mia Maldonado
Federal officers atop the ICE building in Portland on Sunday, Sept. 28, 2025. Federal lawyers are appealing a decision by a federal judge in Oregon that blocked President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops to the city.
Alex Baumhardt
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Oregon Capital Chronicle
Law and Justice
Feds appeal ruling permanently blocking Trump Guard deployment to Portland
Alex Baumhardt
FILE - A Facebook data center in Crook County.
Sage Van Wing
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Environment, Energy and Transportation
Data centers are putting new strain on California’s grid. A new report estimates the impacts
Alejandro Lazo
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An American flag and Oregon state seal behind the bench in Courtroom 2A in the Multnomah County Courthouse, Portland, Ore., Jan. 28, 2025.
Anna Lueck
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OPB
Law and Justice
Oregon’s public defense crisis appears to improve, but some attorneys remain skeptical
Lauren Dake
Public defenders have long argued they are overworked and underpaid, but the state says it's making progress.
Portland General Electric’s Boardman energy complex in the distance, as seen from Crow Butte across the Columbia River in 2019. Electricity demand is expected to rise dramatically in the next 25 years in large part to data centers and electrification in buildings, industry and transportation sectors. But Oregon, unlike neighboring states, is not planning on adding new nuclear power facilities to its energy mix.
Tom Banse
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Oregon Capital Chronicle
Environment, Energy and Transportation
To meet growing energy demand, Oregon is ‘nuclear curious,’ mostly cautious
Alex Baumhardt
Flight information is displayed at Portland International Airport in Portland, Ore., on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025.
Saskia Hatvany
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OPB
Politics & Government
How the reopening of the federal government is impacting Oregon so far
Joni Auden Land
Two paramedics wearing light blue shirts remove a gurney from an ambulance.
Lahna Marie
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Mercy Flights
Health and Medicine
Mercy Flights announces in-home emergency medical care program in Jackson County
Jane Vaughan
At a city council meeting Wednesday, Newport residents voiced concerns about a possible ICE facility at the municipal airport, and the relocation of a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter nearly 100 miles away.
Kyra Buckley
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Immigration
Newport residents, leaders denounce possible ICE detention facility
Conrad Wilson
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Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire speaks during a press conference before Gov. Gavin Newsom signs the Election Rigging Response Act at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on Aug. 21, 2025.
Miguel Gutierrez Jr.
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CalMatters
Politics & Government
Democrat Mike McGuire challenges GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa for new Prop. 50 seat
Maya C. Miller
McGuire, who terms out of the Legislature next year, hopes to capitalize on Democrats’ new voter registration advantage in LaMalfa’s post-Prop. 50 district to flip a congressional seat from red to blue. His launch video appears to preemptively address the criticism that he’s out of touch with rural Californians.
Fabric Mass Timber team members are seen at the site of a future mass timber factory in Redding.
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Business and Labor
Redding chosen for California’s first large-scale mass timber factory
Justin Higginbottom
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, exits the Robert T. Matsui Federal Courthouse in Sacramento after her arraignment on Nov. 12, 2025.
Miguel Gutierrez Jr.
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CalMatters
Law and Justice
Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff indicted on public corruption charges
Maya C. Miller
In a discussion at the Milken Institute Global Investors’ Symposium with CEO Rich Ditizio, California Governor Gavin Newsom told the international audience that while the U.S. was pulling back from climate action, California was pushing forward. He urged them to see California as a stable partner in creating a clean energy economy.
Office of the California Governor website
Environment, Energy and Transportation
Newsom brings California to the heart of the Amazon — and the U.N. climate conference
Alejandra Reyes-Velarde
Assemblymembers gather during a floor session the state Capitol in Sacramento on Sept. 12, 2025.
Fred Greaves
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CalMatters
Politics & Government
California lawmakers found money for these pet projects even as they slashed the budget
Ryan Sabalow
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