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Immigration
Senate votes to outlaw discrimination against Oregon tenants based on immigration status
It comes as Oregon strives to strengthen state laws protecting immigrants against a backdrop of threats from President Donald Trump’s administration, and as the state grapples with a housing crisis.
Immigration
Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege in case over deportations under wartime law
The Trump administration has invoked a “state secrets privilege” and refused to give a federal judge any additional information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador — a case that has become a flashpoint amid escalating tension with the federal courts
Federal funding
UO’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History faces uncertainty amid federal funding threats
President Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services threatens funding for the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History, raising concerns about its ability to serve rural communities.

Education
Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes
Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.

At Springfield town hall, Rep. Hoyle says fascism is rising quickly in US
Hundreds of people gathered at Springfield High School Wednesday night for a town hall with Oregon U.S. Representative Val Hoyle, a Lane County Democrat.
History
Pentagon restores histories of Navajo Code Talkers, other Native veterans after public outcry
The Pentagon has restored some webpages highlighting the wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans

Federal funding
How federal funding cuts are affecting one small school district in an Oregon community that voted heavily for Trump
Grant School District is hundreds of thousands of dollars into a project that is supposed to be reimbursed by the federal government. Now, it’s not clear the feds will pay.

Civil rights
'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts
The Trump administration cut a clause from federal contracting rules that had been on the books since the 1960s: Companies are no longer explicitly prohibited from having segregated facilities.
Politics
Federal workers blast Trump cuts in town hall with Oregon Democrats
Dozens of current and former federal employees packed into a federal building to condemn the Trump administration's efforts to diminish federal spending.

Oregon immigration advocates decry Trump’s use of wartime law to speed deportations
On Saturday, President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a wartime authority that would allow the executive to speed deportations, targeting a Venezuelan gang. The act requires the president to declare the country is at war, giving him the power to speed deportations.