Sunday Reads: April 27

Enjoy the sunshine Great Falls. Here’s this week’s reading list.

KFF Health News: Montana hospitals preserve Medicaid expansion, fend off regulations

Reuters: U.S. charges judge with obstructing immigration case

Associated Press: Judge blocks parts of Trump’s overhaul of U.S. elections

Reuters: China pushes for tariff cancellation to end U.S. trade war

NPR: Democrats demand NLRB respond to whistleblower report about DOGE

San Antonio Express-News: San Antonio VA workers are told to report ‘anti-Christian bias’

The New York Times: Senators investigate private equity role in soaring fire-truck costs

Associated Press: Trump says ‘Crimea will stay with Russia’ as he seeks end to war in Ukraine

The Washington Post: For Russia, the U.S. peace deal could be a way of weakening Ukraine

The New York Times: U.S. tells its diplomats in Vietnam to avoid war anniversary events

Associated Press: USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry

The New York Times: Six men are charged after woman was dragged from Idaho town hall

Reuters: U.S. FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

KFF Health News: Measles misinformation is on the rise — and Americans are hearing it, survey finds

Reuters: U.S. at tipping point for return of endemic measles

The Washington Post: U.S. could face millions of measles cases over the next 25 years if vaccination rates drop 10 percent, according to new research

Newsweek: The looming food-bank crisis

The New York Times: White House Correspondents’ Dinner parties go on without Trump or big celebrities

NPR: ‘60 Minutes’ chief Bill Owens resigns as Trump lawsuit looms over CBS

The New York Times: Suicides and rape at a prized mental health center

Route Fifty: ‘Living off the land’ a major cyber threat to critical infrastructure, report finds

Associated Press: Supreme Court might uphold Obamacare’s preventive care coverage mandate

Reuters: Walgreens to pay $300 million in U.S. opioid settlement

NPR: HHS reverses course and restores funding for women’s health initiative

Associated Press: Events scheduled for World Pride celebration in Washington have been canceled

The Economist: How Trump plans to ramp up deportations

Associated Press: Federal government is reversing termination of legal status for international students around US, lawyer says

The New York Times: Trump cuts threaten agency running Meals On Wheels

Associated Press: 60,000 Americans to lose their rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress acts

The New York Times: In one Colorado town, people experiencing homelessness can sleep in their car

StateScoop: Delaware revives group to address homelessness

Associated Press: Abuse complaints mount at oldest immigration detention center in Miami

DefenseScoop: Southern border unit becomes first equipped with expeditionary surveillance system

NPR: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on the defensive in a brewing scandal

Wired: Here’s all the health and human services data DOGE has access to

The Economist: Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?

ProPublica: How A Chinese prison helped fuel U.S. fentanyl crisis

DefenseScoop: Air Force activates new electronic warfare squadron

Politico: Pentagon to resume medical care for transgender troops

Associated Press: Hegseth had unsecured internet line in Pentagon for Signal, sources say

The New York Times: Interior Department to fast-track oil, gas and mining projects

Vox: Why Florida’s public universities are collaborating with ICE

Associated Press: Jury decides Norfolk Southern should pay for the $600 million settlement in 2023 Ohio derailment

The New York Times: Palin loses libel retrial against New York Times

The New Yorker: Starved in jail

NPR/Ted Radio Hour (audio): How CRISPR is changing the way we grow food

The Washington Post: Which cities have the most trees? See how yours stacks up.

Associated Press: A set of first editions of Shakespeare’s plays could fetch $6 million at auction

The New Yorker: How A.I. might change the humanities