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

NPR: $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance? Huge spikes are coming

Associated Press: Trump’s 50 percent tariffs on India over Russian oil purchases take effect

NPR: In Minneapolis shooting, an increasingly familiar pattern of violent extremism

Reuters: Heat pushes U.S. electricity demand to record peak in July, says EIA

The Washington Post: Trump tries to wrest spending power from Congress as government shutdown looms

NPR: Will more roads in national forests help against wildfires?

KUOW: 2 firefighters arrested by Border Patrol at Washington’s Bear Gulch Fire

The Washington Post: DHS moves to bar aid groups from serving undocumented immigrants

Associated Press: Number of people in US illegally surged to all-time high in 2023, Pew report finds

Associated Press: ICE deportation flights hit record highs as airlines hide plane details

NPR: The Framers wanted the House closest to the people. Redistricting may undermine that

The Washington Post: Transportation Department to control D.C.’s Union Station, Sean Duffy says

The Atlantic: A terrible week for pumpkin spice

NPR: Some FEMA staff are put on leave after signing dissent letter

Financial Times: U.S. food groups plead for relief from Donald Trump’s tariffs

The Washington Post: Appeals court strikes down Trump’s tariffs as illegal but leaves them in place

Associated Press: Top Florida official: Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center to be empty within days

NPR: What Hurricane Katrina taught us about protecting pets

Grist: Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mapped

The Washington Post: States are tracking ‘impostor nurses’ and warning of risk to patients

DefenseScoop: Pentagon terminates use of China-based engineers to support cloud systems

NPR: Whistleblower says DOGE put Social Security numbers at risk

The New York Times: The A.I. spending frenzy is propping up the real economy, too

The Wall Street Journal: The boom in new steel mills is outpacing demand

NPR: Researchers and others raise the alarm about AI deadbot advertising

CyberScoop: Google previews cyber ‘disruption unit’ as U.S. government, industry weigh going heavier on offense

The New York Times: After threats, mayors of blue cities seek united front against Trump

StateScoop: Colorado legislature approves delaying state AI act by five months

Route Fifty: Police reflect on Hurricane Katrina’s public safety communications legacy

Foreign Affairs: The new economic geography

The Economist: Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity

The New York Times: The new American inequality: The cooled vs. the cooked.

Reuters: Meta’s planned Louisiana AI data center to cost $50 billion, Trump says

Undark: Weed regulation is foundering. Can the system be reformed?

The Wall Street Journal: Hormel Foods to raise prices as commodity costs hurt profit

The New York Times: From the ashes of the Eaton Fire, roses bloom

CBS Miami: Miami-Dade Schools enrollment drops by over 13,000 students, prompting budget cuts

Associated Press: Growing use of AI brings an environmental impact

CBS News: An Ohio man made a list of the 3,599 books he read in his lifetime. It has become an inspiration to book lovers everywhere.

NPR: Library of Congress acquires “Wizard of Oz” artifacts

The New Yorker: Inside the tent on “The Great British Bake Off”

NPR: Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art

The Washington Post: The world’s biggest bug farm is turning food waste into protein

Associated Press: Oregon safari park owner faces over 300 counts of animal neglect charges