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President Trump’s requirement that asylum seekers remain in Mexico while they await hearings in the United States is creating a new humanitarian crisis. Yet it isn’t generating nearly the outrage and media scrutiny that his horrific family separations did. But now a deeply dismayed asylum officer has authored a remarkable manifesto that was

Tens of millions of Americans are turning to high-cost loans that routinely carry interest rates of more than 400% for everyday expenses, such as paying their bills and covering emergency expenses. For many, those rates end up being just too high and lead to a seemingly endless debt cycle. But that may soon

Grazing and road usage would continue under proposed legislation that calls for designating more than 1.1 million acres of the Owyhee River Canyonlands in Malheur County as wilderness. The bill, introduced Nov. 7 by Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, both D-Oregon, reflects stakeholder collaboration. The area is important to

Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley joined Congressmen Alcee Hastings (D-FL-20) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL-16) last week in announcing a new resolution calling for an end to the global trade of dog and cat meat, given reports that 30 million dogs and 10 million cats are cruelly slaughtered each year for consumption.  

Oregon’s Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced a nearly $8.5 million electric infrastructure investment in West Oregon Electric Cooperative, Inc., a Vernonia-based co-op which serves communities throughout Columbia, Yamhill, Tillamook, Washington, and Clatsop counties. Merkley serves as the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which oversees

WASHINGTON – Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced Thursday the End Price Gouging for Insulin Act, legislation that the pair said would end drug companies’ exorbitant price hikes on insulin that have made it difficult for millions of Americans to afford the drug. When insulin was first invented over a century