Sunday Reads: Feb. 2

Stay warm this week Great Falls.

Here’s this week’s reading list.

The Washington Post: Trump imposes 25 percent tariffs for Mexico and Canada and raises tariffs on China by 10 percent

Associated Press: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will place 25 percent tariffs on $155 billion in U.S. imports

Associated Press: Mexico president orders retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.

The Washington Post: Walter Reed flooding, steam failure threatens patient care

NPR: Federal health agencies remove data from websites

The New York Times: Which federal programs are under scrutiny? The budget office named 2,600 of them.

NPR: FAA restricts helicopter flights near DCA airport after crash

Associated Press: US military strikes Islamic State operatives in Somalia

The Washington Post: Elon Musk’s allies now have access to a sensitive Treasury Department payment system that controls $6 trillion per year

Reuters: Musk aides lock Office of Personnel Management workers out of computer systems

Reuters: Environmental workers race to clear toxic debris left by LA fires

The New York Times: What kind of Los Angeles will rise from the fires?

NPR: Chicken tax: How a dispute over frozen chicken parts changed the U.S. auto industry

Reuters: Trump says Canada, Mexico tariffs on Saturday may not include oil

The Washington Post: Venezuela releases 6 American detainees after Trump special envoy meets with Maduro

The Economist: Milei, Modi, Trump: an anti-red-tape revolution is under way

NBC News: Education Dept. to investigate installation of all-gender restroom at Colorado high school

StateScoop: As feds resign, state and local governments turn to talent matching program

The New York Times: What mass deportations would do to New York City’s economy

The Economist: How covid contributed to a crisis of trust in America

Reuters: Major tuberculosis outbreak hits Kansas City area

The New York Times: F.D.A. approves drug to treat pain without opioid effects

KFF Health News: Trump Administration’s halt of CDC’s weekly scientific report stalls bird flu studies

The Washington Post: N.Y. doctor charged after prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana girl

The Economist: An alternative theory to explain America’s murder spike in 2020

Associated Press: A food bank netted a huge haul of 13,000 fresh salmon. The catch? The fish were still alive

Route Fifty: Iowa floats first state-level ‘department of government efficiency’

KFF Health News: Trump’s funding ‘pause’ throws states, health industry into chaos

Route Fifty: Social media experts are skeptical about the power of new state laws

The New York Times: How my trip to quit sugar became a journey into hell

The Economist: The Michelin Guide is no longer the only tastemaker in town

The New York Times: Three are arrested in theft of gold helmet from Dutch museum

NPR: Kansas City Ballet makes Super Bowl dance-off with Philadelphia Ballet

The New York Times: An NHL team quickly moved to Utah. Renaming it is taking longer.

NPR: What it’s really like to buy a house for 1 euro in Italy

The New Yorker: The hidden histories lost in the Los Angeles fires

The New York Times: Invasive crabs have taken over New England. One solution? Eat them.

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Jenn Rowell