Happy weekend Great Falls, hope you got out to see the new murals being installed in the alley behind the Times Square building downtown.

Associated Press: Trump-Putin meeting doesn’t result in deal to end war in Ukraine

NPR: Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer

Associated Press: Rising electric bills: How states are tackling Big Tech’s energy demands

NPR: The legal battle over Trump’s escalation to intervene in DC’s law enforcement

The New York Times: Big Tech’s A.I. boom is reordering the U.S. power grid

Associated Press: U.S. producer prices surge in July as Trump tariffs push costs higher

Reuters: Panama Canal to launch tender for construction, operation of two ports, source says

The Washington Post: ICE documents reveal plan to double immigrant detention space this year

The New York Times: Russia is suspected to be behind breach of federal court filing system

The Economist: What Putin wants from Trump in Alaska

The Washington Post: Trump drops ceasefire demand for Ukraine war after summit with Putin

The Washington Post: Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified ‘SECRET,’ watchdog told

Reuters: Air Canada, union deadlocked despite government plea for deal to avert Saturday strike

CBS News: McDonald’s and Wendy’s report breakfast sales are down. Here’s what that says about the economy.

FedScoop: Homeland Security centralizes control over the government’s largest biometrics database

San Francisco Chronicle: Tariffs are slamming Bay Area Indian restaurants and grocers. It could get worse

NPR: The hidden costs of cutting Medicaid

The Economist: America’s housing market is shuddering

Associated Press: Airman arrested in shooting death linked to handgun controversy

DefenseScoop: DOD: Despite privacy concerns, new Instagram location tracker ‘poses minimal risk’ to personnel

Route Fifty: States have been ‘at the forefront’ of efforts to regulate cryptocurrency, experts say

Foreign Affairs: China is winning the cyberwar

Minnesota Public Radio: Downtown Duluth outreach worker Nathan Kesti walks up to 12 miles a day to visit people living on the streets

Associated Press: Man charged with cyberstalking family member of killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

Associated Press: Library book returned 82 years late with note from borrower’s family

The New Yorker: The case for lunch