Enjoy the sunshine and warm weather Great Falls.

Here’s this week’s reading list.

ProPublica: Dr. Thomas Weiner’s Montana medical license renewed despite criminal inquiry

The New York Times: U.S. economy shows signs of strain from Trump’s tariffs and spending cuts

Associated Press: Judge blocks Trump order threatening funding for institutions that offer care for transgender youth

The New York Times: Trump says EPA could cut 65 percent of staff; agency said that was referring to broader budget projections.

Associated Press: Gaza ceasefire: Outrage as Israel cuts off aid to pressure Hamas

The Washington Post: As Trump warms to Putin, U.S. halts offensive cyber operations against Moscow

The New York Times: Trump’s third-term talk faces pushback from a Democratic congressman

The Atlantic: Tax season just got more confusing

DefenseScoop: DOD leadership orders components to scrub DEI content across websites, social media

Associated Press: Former defense chiefs call for hearings on Trump’s firing of Pentagon leaders

The Washington Post: Who is Amy Gleason, named by White House as DOGE administrator?

The New York Times: ‘Why don’t you wear a suit?’: A right-wing news outlet with coveted access questions Zelensky

Reuters: World reacts to Zelenskiy-Trump Oval Office clash

The Economist: How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble

NPR: The CFPB drops a major lawsuit against Capital One

The New York Times: The teacher in Room 1214

Route Fifty: Tech boom highlights need for regional collaboration

The New York Times: The death of competition in American elections

The Economist: Does Britain’s nuclear deterrent have a Trump-shaped problem?

Associated Press: Utah close to fully banning fluoride in water, stripping cities’ ability to decide

The Washington Post: Oklahoma lawmakers blocked new air traffic academy, despite dire shortage

NBC News: ‘We’re not prepared’: States brace for Trump’s plans to dismantle the Education Department

Route Fifty: Nation’s capitol taps data, tech to better serve homeless population

The Economist: Don’t count on monetary policy to make housing affordable

ProPublica: The Trump Administration keeps citing an untrue stat as it targets federal workers

KFF Health News: An ice rink to fight opioid crisis: Drug-free fun vs. misuse of settlement cash

CyberScoop: Army soldier linked to Snowflake attack spree allegedly tried to sell data to foreign spies

CNBC: 1 in 5 Americans are ‘doom spending’ — here’s how that can backfire

KERA News: An armed SWAT team burst in the wrong door — but this North Texas family can’t sue

NPR: Janet Mills’ ascension to leader of the Trump resistance was years in the making

The New York Times: Musk’s cabinet cameo: The elephant in the room wore black

StateScoop: Arizona’s AI election security group pushes for learning lab, more cyber defense

Route Fifty: As bird flu spreads, feds might undercut states by firing scientists, removing data

Associated Press: In a reversal, plans for U.S. natural gas power grow, complicating progress on climate

The New York Times: Trump’s plan to repeal climate policy could upend shift to electric cars

Politico: Climate grant recipient to start spending $2B as Trump’s EPA tries to claw it back

Bloomberg: U.S. housing voucher program faces funding crunch as chaos engulfs HUD

The Wall Street Journal: Chinese manufacturers speed up efforts to dodge Trump tariffs

NPR: Here’s why China may benefit from Trump’s actions with Europe

Associated Press: A Texas child who was not vaccinated has died of measles, a first for the US in a decade

ABC News: Measles cases reported in New Jersey, Kentucky amid ongoing outbreak in Texas

Foreign Affairs: The world Trump wants: American power in the new age of nationalism

Grist: How climate change affects bird flu, and thus the price of eggs

The New York Times: Organ transplant system ‘in chaos’ as waiting lists are ignored

The New York Times: Where Medicaid enrollment in the U.S. is the highest

Associated Press: Anti-DEI push ends effort to plant trees in places that need them

AL.com: $19 million in HBCU funding suspended after Trump diversity ban: ‘Not looking too good’

Associated Press: NPS withdraws Black community in Louisiana from historic landmark consideration

The New York Times: Roosevelt Hotel Shelter, symbol of NYC migrant crisis, will close

ProPublica: Domestic violence fatalities in Illinois are still not getting reviewed

Route Fifty: State and local lawmakers take a renewed look at speed enforcement cameras

Food and Environmental Reporting Network and Texas Monthly: The aftermath of the worst immigration-related disaster in U.S. history

NPR: An oil pipeline company is suing Greenpeace after protests

The New York Times: Chicago teen killed six people over nine months in 2020, prosecutors say

Associated Press: Investigator on SafeSport case gets arrested, and now a survivor is facing trauma once again

NBC News: Puerto Ricans worry about new Trump order designating English as official language

NPR: Bezos’ changes to ‘Washington Post’ lead to more cancellations

Reuters: Meta in talks for $200 billion AI data center project, The Information reports

NPR: Dating app giant Match Group is slow to weed out predators

Variety: Lester Holt leaves NBC News: Perilous climate for anchors

NPR: We can’t answer audience questions about #DefundNPR without talking about the larger implications for public media

The New York Times: Voice of America journalists face investigations for comments about Trump

The New York Times: Dr. Oz: How his millions collide with Medicare

The New York Times: Clint Hill, who sprang to Kennedys’ side as shots were fired, dies at 93

NPR: The female authors who influenced Jane Austen

The New York Times: Beloved pink house on Massachusetts coast to be demolished

BioGraphic: The American lobster’s baby bust

The Atlantic: It’s never too late to learn an instrument

The Washington Post: Japan’s Missing Post Office: Where people send letters to the dead