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