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Portland Business News

Willamette University leases space in the Pearl District
Author: Jonathan Bach
Willamette University is moving students into the Ecotrust building in the Pearl District.
Oregon hospitals scramble to hire nurses to comply with new law in June
Author: Elizabeth Hayes
Hospital systems must have their new safe staffing plans in place in June to comply with a law that passed last year.

NYT Politics

Michael Cohen’s Riveting Day in Court
Author: Jesse McKinley
The prosecution’s star witness testified that Trump ordered him to “just do it” and pay Stormy Daniels.
Biden Promised Normal. Do Voters Want His Version of It?
Author: Katie Rogers
Many voters in a new poll say the country’s political and economic systems need major changes or to be completely torn down. The Biden campaign says it’s not satisfied with business as usual, either.

Columbian Newspaper

Trump suggests Chinese migrants are in the US to build an ‘army.’ The migrants tell another story
Author: FU TING, ALI SWENSON and DIDI TANG, FU TING, ALI SWENSON and DIDI TANG, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — It was 7 a.m. on a recent Friday when Wang Gang, a 36-year-old Chinese immigrant, jostled for a day job in New York City’s Flushing neighborhood.

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Trump will stump in Minnesota, traditionally blue state he insists he can win. Is it really in play?
Author: STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s planned campaign visit to Minnesota on Friday will mark his return to a traditionally Democratic state that he has long argued he could carry.

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Stock market today: Wall Street drifts around the edge of its record
Author: STAN CHOE, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish Monday, hanging near their record heights.

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Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit Zoox under investigation by US after 2 rear-end crashes
Author: Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government’s highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists.

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Star witness Michael Cohen directly implicates Trump in testimony at hush money trial
Author: MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and JAKE OFFENHARTZ, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s fixer-turned-foe, Michael Cohen, directly implicated the former president in a hush money scheme Monday, telling jurors that his celebrity client tasked him on several occasions to stifle stories about sex that he feared could torpedo his 2016 presidential campaign.

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Seattle Times Opinion

Trump is not invincible
Author: Jamelle Bouie

Trump is a glorified bully. And like all bullies, he wilts in the face of anyone willing to stand up and say no.

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