Sunday Reads: Aug. 23
Happy Ginger Day weekend Great Falls! Here’s this week’s reading list.
The Associated Press: What to know about new Trump tariffs on Canadian products and rising trade tensions
The Associated Press: Federal judge vacates Trump policy that suspended processing of immigration visas from 75 countries
Reuters: U.S. shoppers tighten budgets, but still find room for treats and splurges
NPR: The bond market is sensing trouble. You should pay attention
The Associated Press: Trump urges court to reject BBC bid for family records in defamation case
Reuters: Hormuz shipping unchanged amid US-Iran stalemate, data shows
The New York Times: Polling group released fake data in Hong and Bass races as a ‘Social experiment’
Reuters: Trump heads into midterms short on foreign policy wins
The Wall Street Journal: U.S. workers are paying more for healthcare, and next year will be worse
KFF Health News: New DOJ guidance could give states cover to cut disability services
The Associated Press: Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
Bloomberg: U.S. landfills are overheating, and experts are sounding the alarm
The Associated Press: Nevada’s uncontained Hawk Fire was caused by humans, authorities say
CyberScoop: The push to designate AI as the next critical infrastructure sector
The Washington Post: Mathematicians ask what’s left for humans when AI can do math research
The Economist: The Kremlin’s crypto king
DefenseScoop: Army cyber chief reveals AI task force building agents to ‘hunt’ in the DOD network
The Economist: How big is America’s “obesity penalty”?
The Washington Post: Manufactured homes once banished to trailer parks are moving to suburbia
The New York Times: What do students lose when they stop writing?
Associated Press: Poland says it thwarted Russian plot to kill an American citizen in Warsaw
The Washington Post: Rare letters from kin of missing soldiers are donated to Gettysburg museum
The New York Times: As the old files open, one family confronts another’s dark Nazi past
Reuters: Italy recovers Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse works stolen from museum
ProPublica: General Dynamics failed to build artillery shells for the Army
The New York Times: Afghan women erased from public life in five years of Taliban rule
The New York Times: The Taliban kicked the U.S. out of Afghanistan. Now they want it back.
CyberScoop: Retail theft bill spurs ‘very large and very dangerous’ surveillance fears
The Economist: China is training up thousands of humanoid robots
StateScoop: States are moving on accessibility but struggling, say digital officers
The Washington Post: This coach is banned from working with kids. Why is he still coaching?
NPR: The Women’s Professional Baseball League makes its historic debut
The Economist: Rubbish football, fun food: a lower-league recipe for success
Associated Press: Under new legislation, restaurants prep to post origin country for shrimp
The New Yorker: G.P.S. and the lost art of getting lost
New York Magazine: ChatGPT is a huge snitch
The New York Times: Off-leash and on the waves: scenes from the 2026 Dog Surfing Championships




