Hope you’re staying warm Great Falls. Here’s this week’s reading list.

The Washington Post: Amazon eyes expanding delivery network after talks with USPS stall

Reuters: EIA to ditch some existing reports and launch new surveys on minerals, data centers

The New York Times: Shoppers turn to discounts and debt, but not just for holidays

The Economist: How AI is rewiring childhood

Associated Press: Arkansas county has become hot spot for US immigration crackdown

The New York Times: 18,000 reasons it’s so hard to build a chip factory in America

The Washington Post: L.A. woman’s death reveals why America’s pedestrian safety plan failed

Associated Press: Oklahoma university instructor on leave after failing Bible-based essay on gender

The New York Times: Bipartisan House group proposes long-shot health care plan

The Wall Street Journal: For first time in decades, child deaths will rise this year

Associated Press: The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump’s birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution

The Economist: Leaf blowers are the latest thing dividing Americans

Associated Press: Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business

Food and Environment Reporting Network/Rolling Stone: ‘The precedent is Flint.’ How Oregon’s data-center boom is supercharging a water crisis.

AL.com: University of Alabama suspends two student magazines to comply with anti-DEI regulations

Delaware News Journal: Why more shoppers are switching to store brands to save money

Houston Public Media: Houston residents are divided on solutions to the city’s collection problem.

WTVG: Toledo, Ohio, negotiates with Republic Services, Priority Waste for collection contract.

The New York Times: Agriculture Dept. threatens to withhold SNAP funding from Democratic states

Route Fifty: Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers

NPR: 50 years after the birth of special education, some fear for its future under Trump

ABC News: West Virginia again bans religious reasons for school vaccine exemptions

The Economist: Donald Trump looms over Vladimir Putin’s visit to India

Route Fifty: Some officials, lawmakers look to speed up permitting for broadband projects

The Washington Post: Ozempic is changing the consumer economy. See how and what’s to come.

Route Fifty: New York City launches new emergency communications vehicle to improve public safety responses

ProPublica: Fox News and the misleading story of Portland’s ICE protests

The New Yorker: Feeling old: 44 os the first big aging cliff for millennials

The New York Times: Where is Jacob? His mother won’t say, and the police cannot find him.

The Atlantic: How the politics of food brought together the crunchy left and the trad right

The Washington Post: Harper Lee recalls her most treasured Christmas gift

The Atlantic: No one gave a speech like Patrick Henry

The Atlantic: The women of the American Revolution