Stay warm out there this week Great Falls. Here’s this week’s reading list.

Billings Gazette: Billings advocates make case for new mental health facility

The Washington Post: Trump hints at health-care deal to end shutdown, but key hurdles remain

Associated Press: Trump urges China to be less confrontational after his tariff threat

The New York Times: Trump aimed shutdown cuts at Democrats, but G.O.P. districts are hit, too

The Associated Press: OPEC+ to raise oil production by 137,000 barrels per day in November

Reuters: U.S. power use to reach record highs in 2025 and 2026, EIA says

Reuters: Education Department altered employees’ emails to blame shutdown on Democrats, lawsuit says

NBC News: Shutdown cancels sports games and dances for students at military-base schools

The Washington Post: What it looks like in the world’s data center capital

Route Fifty: Virginia could show how to manage data center growth. So far, it’s a case study in stalling legislation

The New York Times: Technology is helping farmers use land and fertilizer more strategically

NPR: Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

CyberScoop: House Dems seek info about ICE spyware contract, wary of potential abuses

Route Fifty: Montana moves forward on regulatory framework for blockchain, digital assets

ABC News: Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The Washington Post: Why this one area of cities is usually the poorest

Associated Press: Judge blocks Trump administration’s changes to teen pregnancy prevention program

NBC News: UPS is ‘disposing of’ U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

FERN and Bloomberg Businessweek: A shipwreck killed 41 crew and 5,900 cattle. The brutal business behind it goes on.

Associated Press: Afghanistan says it killed 58 Pakistani soldiers

The New York Times: Newark was forced to overhaul its police department. Crime plummeted.

Route Fifty: Newsom just vetoed a bill to regulate license plate readers — even as fresh evidence of misuse emerges

The New York Times: Maryland judges weigh whether cities can sue over climate change

Route Fifty: Governments are relying more on social media influencers

The New York Times: The E.P.A. followed up on an unusual request about abortion pills

The Boston Globe: Boston City councilors propose publicly-owned grocery stores to make healthy food more accessible

LAist: LA considers fast-tracking construction of temporary structures for promised ‘no build’ Olympics

The New York Times: Why did Walmart just buy a shopping mall?

The Washington Post: Tom Sietsema says goodbye after 25 years. And we finally reveal what our food critic looks like.

The Atlantic: Something weird is Happening with Halloween chocolate

The New York Times: Opening a restaurant in New York is no picnic. Here’s what it takes.

The New Yorker: The prime minister who tried to have a life outside the office