Here’s this week’s reading list. Hope everyone enjoyed the Christmas Stroll and the Great Falls Symphony’s holiday concert this weekend.

Associated Press: As data centers proliferate, conflict with local communities follows

The Washington Post: Why so many Americans prefer sprawl to walkable neighborhoods

KFF Health News: Nine states poised to end coverage for millions if Trump cuts Medicaid funding

NPR: School special education staff are sometimes hurt by the students they serve

The Economist: America’s gambling boom should be celebrated, not feared

Reuters: Rattled by China, West scrambles to rejig critical minerals supply chains

The New York Times: Supreme Court decision could affect other trans rights cases

The Washington Post: Memphis police engage in excessive force, discriminate against Black and disabled people, Justice Dept. says

The Atlantic: What can DOGE do?

The Economist: The perils of the world’s third nuclear age

Foreign Affairs: America is cursed by a foreign policy of nostalgia

The Economist: France steps into deep trouble

Associated Press: The Associated Press says buyouts and some layoffs are ahead as it seeks to cut its workforce by eight percent

The Washington Post: A single mutation of the H5N1 bird flu among U.S. cows could make the virus adept at attaching to human cells, a new study reports

Route Fifty: Public health tech must be agile in post-COVID world, Virginia official says

DefenseScoop: Trump picks Daniel Driscoll to lead Army as ‘disruptor and change agent’

The New Yorker: The toppling of the Assad regime in Syria

The Washington Post: Assad regime falls in Syria as rebels in Damascus claim victory on state TV

Bloomberg: South Korea’s brush with martial law is a warning to democratic nations

The Atlantic: The business-school scandal that just keeps getting bigger

NPR: Some rural Nevadans want Trump to stop the state’s solar energy boom

The Washington Post: Appeals court upholds nationwide TikTok ban-or-sale law

Reuters: As tariffs loom, Gillette-razor maker P&G sourcing more steel from India

Route Fifty: Virtual teachers step in as school district grapples with educator shortage

The Washington Post: All-cash buyers are still snapping up homes. See where they’re buying.

The Atlantic: How a federal policy change in the 1980s gave us food deserts

Reuters: Temu, Shein suspend Vietnam operations amid crackdown on e-commerce platforms

KFF Health News: Six years into an Appalachia hospital monopoly, patients are fearful and furious

Route Fifty: Alabama senator refiles bill to make body cameras, dashboard footage public records

Reuters: Slim Jim maker Conagra exploring sale of Chef Boyardee, sources say

The New York Times: Roger Golubski, ex-Kansas police detective, found dead on first day of his trial

The New York Times: Judge steps aside in ‘shaken baby’ death penalty case in Texas

The Atlantic: Behind the brain rot

NPR: Notre Dame organist returns for the cathedral’s grand reopening

The New York Times: Stephen King to shut down his three radio stations in Maine

Taste: The case for not going viral

The New Yorker: The island where environmentalism implodes

The New York Times: Bookstores are setting up readers on ‘blind dates’ with books

The Atlantic: Five stories about the changing landscape of love