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FILE - The bill imposes a one-year ban on state Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood and some other health care nonprofits that provide abortions. The front of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Bend, Oregon, in this June 28, 2022, file photo.
Joni Land
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OPB
Planned Parenthood clinics in southwestern Oregon are bracing themselves for closure.
Despite overwhelming bipartisan public support for continued federal funding for public media, the US Senate and House of Representatives have voted to approve the Trump Administration’s request to immediately eliminate all federal funding for every public radio and television station in the country.
FILE - Masked Department of Homeland Security officers protect the driveway of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland, Ore., June 17, 2025.
Kristyna Wentz-Graff
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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden is among the Democratic lawmakers pushing legislation to prohibit law enforcement officers from hiding their identities.
Radio host Scott Shafer, left, moderates a California gubernatorial debate between Republican candidate John Cox, center, and Democratic candidate Gavin Newsom at KQED Public Radio Studio in San Francisco, on Oct. 8, 2018. The NPR station is among many in California hit by Republican congressional cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Small NPR and PBS stations in California are teetering after Congress pulled funding from public broadcasting. Even big stations are bracing for cuts.