Happy weekend Great Falls! Here’s this week’s reading list.

KFF Health News: Montana’s small pharmacies behind bill to corral pharmacy benefit managers

The New York Times: House passes ‘SAVE Act’ requiring proof of citizenship to vote

Military.com: Pentagon turns focus to potentially privatizing commissaries, military exchanges

The Washington Post: FBI, other criminal investigators drafted for welfare checks on migrant children

NPR: Stew Leonard’s CEO on how the grocery chain is handling tariffs

The New York Times: Buy or wait? Americans wrestle with how tariffs will affect their shopping.

Associated Press: China announces countermeasures by raising tariffs on US goods from 84 percent to 125 percent from Saturday

The New York Times: Top U.S. prosecutor in New Jersey, a Trump loyalist, targets governor

Associated Press: Federal judge sides with Trump in allowing immigration enforcement in houses of worship

KFF Health News: Firings at federal health agencies decimate offices that release public records

The Economist: America’s financial system came close to the brink

Associated Press: Trump administration says it will exclude some electronics from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

The New York Times: Trump signs orders punishing those who opposed his 2020 election lies

Associated Press: US egg prices increase to record high, dashing hopes of cheap eggs by Easter

NPR: ‘What did I say in class today?’: Teachers feel watched under Trump’s anti-DEI push

DefenseScoop: Feinberg releases new guidance for DOD’s civilian workforce shakeup

The War Horse: Army planners are weighing force reductions of up to 90,000 active-duty soldiers

KFF Health News: For opioid victims, payouts fall short while governments reap millions

Financial Times: Tariffs will not halt supply chain shift to SE Asia, says Uniqlo founder

ProPublica: EPA plans to end greenhouse gas reporting for most polluters

NPR: Free speech is shifting under Trump. We’re exploring how.

Associated Press: Iran and US agree to more talks over Tehran’s nuclear program after 1st round in Oman

Route Fifty: An algorithm deemed this nearly blind 70-year-old prisoner a “moderate risk.” Now he’s no longer eligible for parole.

Foreign Affairs: Trade wars are easy to lose

The Washington Post: Staff cuts begin at the National Endowment for the Humanities, threatening programs across the U.S.

NPR: How Trump’s immigration policies could worsen the healthcare worker shortage

Reuters: Some U.S. consumers stockpile goods ahead of Trump’s new tariffs

StateScoop: New partnership aims to hire displaced federal workers in state, local governments

Associated Press: FDA reverses course on telework after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations

NPR: House GOP leaders delay budget vote because of conservative opposition

The Washington Post: After Trump tariffs, travel from Canada to U.S. plummets

The Columbus Dispatch: Microsoft pushes back $1 billion plan for data centers in central Ohio

DefenseScoop: Lawmakers fearful of SOCOM cuts, possible risk to mission

Reuters: Clothing retailers delay orders, freeze hiring as tariffs hit

Associated Press: RFK Jr. to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water

Route Fifty: State and local governments continue fight drug epidemic with tech

WTOP: Parents arrested after 3rd grader accidentally fired gun in Va. classroom, deputies say

CyberScoop: Treasury bureau notifies Congress that email hack was a ‘major’ cybersecurity incident

The Washington Post: Trump’s pick to oversee Bureau of Land Management withdraws after her criticism of Jan. 6 riot surfaces

Foreign Policy: Why Putin Is Stalling Trump on Ukraine

Associated Press: Supreme Court says Trump administration must facilitate return of Maryland man mistakenly deported

The Economist: Why China thinks it might win a trade war with Trump

KFF Health News: Rural hospitals and patients are disconnected from modern care

The Washington Post: 6,000 living immigrants added to Social Security death database as part of Trump’s crackdown

The Oregonian: Preschool for All hits some milestones but risks not serving as many children as promised, auditor finds

Delaware Online: Delaware approves $5M taxpayer grant for Aldi distribution center

Associated Press:Pressed for evidence against Mahmoud Khalil, government cites its power to deport people for beliefs

DefenseScoop: Space Force launches new effort to share unclassified threat data with commercial industry

NPR: Trump officials halt $1 billion in funding for Cornell, $790 million for Northwestern

Route Fifty: ‘Hard, unglamorous work’ now can mean AI success later, city leaders say

Associated Press: U.S. blocks sea salt imports from South Korean salt farm over forced labor concerns

CyberScoop: Tech experts recommend full steam ahead on US export controls for AI

The New York Times: Trump Administration Cuts Research Funding, Claiming It Creates ‘Climate Anxiety’

Route Fifty: Judge strikes down Arkansas social media law

The Texas Tribune: 15 Texas A&M international students might have quietly lost their ability to stay in the U.S.

Associated Press: At least 18 dead in flooding, tornadoes across U.S. South and Midwest

StateScoop: Minnesota’s new tracker shows how axed federal funding disrupts state services

Route Fifty: Public health risks of urban wildfire smoke prompt push for more monitoring

NPR: ‘Every day, every single customer’: Tariffs hit close to home inside Asian grocers

The New Yorker: Bluesky’s quest to build nontoxic social media

Food and Environmental Reporting Network/The Guardian: A new approach to mental health in farm country

The New York Times: Your wine tariff questions, answered

The Dial: The luxury tuna industry is killing the Mediterranean

The New York Times: Pizza Hut, Chili’s, Olive Garden: The death of the middle-class restaurant

Eater: Atlanta’s parking problem is eating restaurants alive

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The secret history of pimento cheese

The New York Times: Is the restaurant good? Or is it just the ambience?

NPR: 100 years of ‘The Great Gatsby’

The New York Times: Art sales fell by 12 percent last year, Art Basel and UBS report says