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Sunday Reads: July 20

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Enjoy your weekend Great Falls. Here’s this week’s reading list.

Associated Press: Most think GOP tax bill will help the wealthy, poll finds

NPR: Trump administration leaves Million Veteran Program data and research in limbo

KFF Health News: A million veterans gave DNA to aid health research. Scientists worry the data will be wasted.

PBS: House gives final approval to Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid

Associated Press: U.S. imposes a 17 percent duty on fresh Mexican tomatoes

NPR: Why Trump’s tariffs may hit low-income households hardest

Salt Lake City Tribune: SLC says new public safety plan working, but system remains ‘broken’

Associated Press: Housing assistance is at risk under Trump’s HUD time limits proposal

The Washington Post: NOAA was developing a way to predict extreme rainfall — until Trump officials stopped it

Associated Press:  Emails show DeSantis administration left county officials in the dark about ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

The New York Times: Trump’s National Guard troops are questioning their mission in L.A.

The Washington Post: Justice Dept. hits states with broad requests for voter rolls, election data

The New York Times: Federal workers’ ‘emotional roller coaster’: Fired, rehired, fired again

The Economist: The world is winning the war on cancer

The New York Times: Footage of inmate suicide captures dysfunction on Rikers Island

Associated Press: An Idaho judge has lifted a sweeping gag order in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case

Reuters: EU trade chief heads to Washington in search of tariffs solution

Associated Press: Trump administration hands over nation’s Medicaid enrollee data to ICE

The Economist: AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?

Associated Press: Deadly Fall River fire highlights limited regulation at assisted-living facilities

KFF Health News: Surprise medical bills were supposed to be a thing of the past. Surprise — they’re not.

The New York Times: Upended by meth, some communities are paying users to quit

CyberScoop: UK sanctions Russian hackers, spies as US weighs its own punishments for Russia

The Economist: The bomb: were nuclear weapons inevitable?

Associated Press: Trump appointees pushed more marble in Fed building renovation White House now attacks

The New Yorker: Is the U.S. ready for the next war?

Foreign Affairs: The limits of Putin’s balancing act

ProPublica: Why Texas Gov. Greg Abbott won’t release his Elon Musk emails

Associated Press: Judge OKs release plan for woman who stabbed a classmate to please Slender Man

PBS: Vandals cut down England’s beloved Sycamore Gap tree. They were just sentenced to more than 4 years in prison

The New York Times: They grew up on Mexican Coke. Trump’s cane sugar plan makes them uneasy.

Food and Environment Reporting Network/The Guardian: How Trump’s immigration raids hurt summer pleasures, from berries to barbecue

The Atlantic: The dark ages are back

The Atlantic: What your favorite grocery store says about you

NPR: Hungarian library is fighting to save books from beetles

The New York Times: Some breweries consider banning children

Jenn Rowell
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