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

Associated Press: IRS Direct File won’t be available next year for submitting tax returns for free

WAVY (Va.): Jury reaches verdict in Richneck Elementary shooting case

The Washington Post: ‘A House of Dynamite’ gets a lot right. Experts hope that terrifies you.

NPR: A gun violence ‘action plan’ calls for a new emphasis on prevention

The Washington Post: Layoffs rise to recession-like levels through October, new report says

NPR: How the fight over healthcare sparked a record-long shutdown

Reuters: A Trump Supreme Court tariff defeat would add to trade uncertainty

NPR: Government shutdown delays an assistance program households use to heat homes

The Washington Post: Tariffs on pasta from Italy could soon soar to more than 100 percent

The New York Times: Shutdown becomes longest in history, as Trump officials threaten pain could worsen

Associated Press: Boeing escapes criminal charge over 737 Max crashes that killed hundreds of people

The New York Times:  Judge permanently bars Trump from requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration

Bloomberg: Amazon says Berkshire Hathaway utility in Oregon failing to power data centers

The Wall Street Journal: What happened when small-town America became data center, U.S.A.

The New York Times: Big Food’s fight against Kennedy is heating up

KUNC: Barbed wire fences dot the West. There’s a growing movement to take them down — for wildlife

KTOO: Alaska aims to regulate its own hazardous waste

NPR: Air traffic controllers warn of ‘tipping point’ during shutdown

The New York Times: This closed factory shows how hard reviving drug manufacturing will be

Route Fifty: Phoenix plans digital twin to solve regional challenges

KFF Health News: Louisiana took months to sound alarm after two babies died in whooping cough outbreak

CyberScoop: With each cloud outage, calls for government action grow louder

CBS News: Violent threats, once concentrated in Washington, are increasing against local public servants, new data shows

Reuters: U.S. retailers left short-changed as penny production ends

The Washington Post:  How money affects how we think about aging

Route Fifty: Kansas looks to tech to modernize agency rulemaking

Reuters: France moves to suspend Shein over sex dolls and weapons on day Paris store opens

The Atlantic: America is sliding toward illiteracy

NPR: Student theater gives Broadway flops a second life