Stay warm out there Great Falls, here’s this week’s reading list.

Associated Press: Israel begins releasing dozens of Palestinian prisoners in latest exchange under Gaza ceasefire

KFF Health News: Officials seek to dismantle appeals board for Montanans denied public assistance

The Washington Post: Trump’s USAID plans threaten money for American farms, businesses

Reuters: What to know about Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza

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

Associated Press: Trump signs executive order intended to bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports

The Washington Post: In chaotic Washington blitz, Elon Musk’s ultimate goal becomes clear

Associated Press: US employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, jobless rate falls to 4 percent.

PBS News: Why engineers are turning to beavers for insights into managing water resources

The Washington Post: The Trump administration cut billions in biomedical funding. Researchers say it imperils work on cancer and other illnesses.

CyberScoop: DOJ disbands foreign influence task force, limits scope of FARA prosecutions

NPR: Pardoned Jan.6 rioters threaten prosecutors, FBI and cops

Associated Press: Judge rules Georgia railroad can seize land as landowners vow to fight

Michigan Public Radio: On the frontline against bird flu, egg farmers fear they’re losing the battle

The New York Times: Fire destroys Ohio farm building holding thousands of chickens

NBC News: Trump’s freeze stalls federal firefighter hiring

The New Yorker: The long quest for artificial blood

NPR: The science behind the FDA ban on food dye Red No. 3

The New York Times: Got weird? Milk is headed for its strangest year yet.

DefenseScoop: Pentagon prototypes AI platform to better analyze adversaries’ news media

KFF Health News: Measles outbreak mounts among children in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties

Food and Environment Reporting Network/Reveal: Immigrants on the line

Route Fifty: How emerging tech is shaping law enforcement

Alaska Public Media: Federal job cuts could have an enormous impact in Alaska

The Economist: Is your master’s degree useless?

Associated Press: Baltic nations count final hours to ending electricity ties to Russia

The Washington Post: Federal judge blocks DOGE from access to Treasury material

Foreign Affairs: Trump’s tariffs and what’s at stake, in nine charts

The New York Times: Congo mourns its dead after rebels capture key city of Goma

The Atlantic: The government’s computing experts say they are terrified

The Economist: Universities are failing to boost economic growth

The Washington Post: Federal judge blocks Trump administration from putting more than 2,000 USAID workers on leave

Reuters: U.S. Postal Service U-turn on China parcels sows confusion among retailers, shippers

Route Fifty: Washington governor orders team to study data centers’ impact on energy use, job creation and tax revenue

Eater: For undocumented restaurant workers, everything is in question

StateScoop: Alabama governor pushes K-12 cell phone ban

The Washington Post: Secret U.K. order demands Apple allow access to all cloud content from users worldwide

Associated Press: AI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano

PBS News: ‘Wicked’ costume designer Paul Tazewell on the vision behind his Oscar-nominated work

New York Magazine: Sarah McNally has made McNally Jackson a literary empire

WBUR: Should we farm octopuses for food?

The New York Times Magazine: ‘A perfect invader’