Sunday Reads: Oct. 19

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

Associated Press: These people will lose if Affordable Care Act health subsidies expire

The Economist: Governments going broke

NPR: Should the bus be free? Not everyone is on board

The Washington Post: ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa

Reuters: Trump says his administration is working on lowering beef prices

Associated Press: An Israeli security official says the transfer of aid into Gaza is halted after a Hamas ceasefire violation

The Washington Post: Amid shaky truce, Israel says it struck Gaza after Hamas attacks

The Washington Post: Putin demanded Ukraine surrender key territory in call with Trump as condition for ending the war

Indiana Public Media: Indiana University fires adviser of student media, stops printing Daily Student

The Wall Street Journal: AI data centers, desperate for electricity, are building their own power plants

The Washington Post: Thieves steal treasured jewelry from Louvre in daytime heist

City Lab | Bloomberg: Library designs showcase new roles as social hubs and downtown boosters

The Washington Post: Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

The Economist: Why Wall Street is fearful of more lending blow-ups

The Wall Street Journal: Grocery prices keep rising. frustrated consumers are trying to adapt.

The Washington Post: With shutdown cuts, Trump moves closer to eliminating Education Department

CNBC: Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says

The Wall Street Journal: Walmart, once a byword for low pay, becomes a case study in how to treat workers

Reuters: Sam Altman-backed Oklo to get $2 billion for U.S. nuclear fuel development

The New York Times: World meteorological report marks biggest annual jump in CO2 levels

Foreign Affairs: A grand strategy of reciprocity

The Washington Post: ‘It broke me’: Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to kill himself

CyberScoop: PowerSchool hacker sentenced to 4 years in prison

Foreign Affairs: Hamas is not done fighting

StateScoop: The government shutdown didn’t stop disaster relief, but it delays money for states

The New Yorker: The real housewives of Moscow

The Atlantic: What the founding fathers ate—and drank—on July 4, 1777

The Washington Post: She spurned the concertmaster’s advance. Now she’s classical music’s #MeToo vigilante.

The New York Times: How America got hooked on ultraprocessed food

The Washington Post: Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’s bid to set aside $1.4 billion verdict for defaming Sandy Hook families

The Atlantic: The drink that Americans won’t give up without a fight

The Wall Street Journal: America’s favorite apple is a farmer’s nightmare

BBC Science Focus: The only country that produces all its own food

The New York Times: Shein chose Paris for its first boutique. Paris isn’t pleased.

The Economist: The vital art of talking to strangers

The Conversation/FERN: Can you really be addicted to food?

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Jenn Rowell