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The potential for new Oregon firearm restrictions is driving residents to gun stores.
Kristyna Wentz-Graff
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OPB
Paul Kitagaki Jr.
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The Sacramento Bee via AP, Pool
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Photo Illustration by Gabe Hongsdusit, Larry Valenzuela/CalMatters/CatchLight LocalThe California DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to operate on our roadways. Too often they go on to kill. Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again. -
Brian Shamblen/Flickr/Wikimedia CommonsHumboldt County cannabis farmers are struggling as the price of their crop drops. Add local taxes and regulations, and it’s likely never been harder to make it growing legal marijuana. But economists say there may be hope for small growers — if they can survive long enough.
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Charlotte Gomez for NPRHere's a summary of NPR's findings about the report that a whistleblower filed to Congress about how DOGE violated security protocols and could have removed sensitive labor data. -
DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images/AFPTrump and GOP Congress members accuse the public broadcasters of biased and "woke" programming. The president plans a rescission, giving Congress 45 days to approve it or allow funding to be restored.
Bradley W. Parks
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OPB
A conversation on the Senate floor on Monday pivoted from being about a measure requiring the state to provide luggage to kids in foster care rather than trash bags into a larger bipartisan discussion about why the agency charged with kids in its care has struggled for so long.
Miguel Gutierrez Jr.
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CalMatters
The National Institutes of Health restored a leading University of California researcher’s $36 million grant studying dementia on Friday after terminating it three weeks ago as part of the Trump administration’s DEI purge. The UC says others were restored, too.
Anne Wernikoff
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CalMatters
