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2 days ago | mtpr.org | Leila Fadel

NPR asks Sen. Jack Reed, top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, why he wants an investigation into whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared classified intelligence in a Signal chat.

5 days ago | mtpr.org | Aaron Bolton

The Gallatin City-County Health Department says two adults and three children are isolating after confirmation they had measles. Health officials say they contracted the disease while traveling out of state, but could not say where. All of them were unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status. The county health department is contacting people who may have been exposed. Officials say people who’ve been vaccinated don’t need to take any action.

5 days ago | mtpr.org | Aaron Bolton

With HUD grants in limbo, Kalispell shelter breaks ground on affordable housing projectChris Krager with the Samaritan House says he was in the process of finalizing a more than $4 million grant with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. But, right in the middle of that process, he says federal staff went silent. Krager doesn’t know whether that grant will show up or if he needs to look elsewhere for funding.

6 days ago | mtpr.org | Julia Simon |Jeongyoon Han

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has ordered a halt to an offshore wind project near the coast of Long Island. Today, Equinor, the Norwegian energy company that owns and operates the project, announced it is complying with the order and suspending all construction. President Trump, a longtime critic of wind energy, issued a moratorium on new development of offshore wind projects, one of his first executive orders upon returning to the White House.

1 week ago | mtpr.org | Sally Mauk |Lee Banville |Holly Michels

Opposition to Trump Administration policies draws thousands of Montanans to protests. The state Republican party tries to excommunicate nine legislators from the party. Bills aimed at making judicial races overtly partisan appear to be failing. And members of the Blackfeet Nation sue over Canadian tariffs. Capitol Talk is MTPR's weekly legislative news and analysis program.