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Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019

SF Chronicle: US government opens 725,000 acres in California to oil, gas drilling

Press Democrat: ‘They’ve lost their minds’: Local officials hit back at IRS over agency’s refusal to pay county fees

The Guardian: Supreme court to consider abortion law almost identical to one it just rejected

The Guardian: 'A problem in every national forest': tree thieves were behind Washington wildfire

Friday, Oct. 4, 2019

NY Times: Trump Will Deny Immigrant Visas to Those Who Can’t Pay for Health Care

The Guardian: 'Everywhere we looked': trillions of microplastics found in San Francisco bay

The Guardian: 'Manhattan of the desert': civil war puts Yemen's ancient skyscrapers at risk

Smithsonian Magazine: Researchers Discover the Tallest Known Tree in the Amazon

Outside Online: Has Overtourism Killed Big Sur?

NY Times: Barr Pushes Facebook for Access to WhatsApp Messages

NY Times: Let’s Fill Our Cities With Taller, Wooden Buildings

CBS News : Mahatma Gandhi's ashes allegedly stolen as his portrait defaced with "traitor" graffiti

The Guardian: Stephen Miller blamed impeachment on Deep State – Bannon says that’s for ‘nut cases’

The Guardian: California just legalized public banking, setting the stage for more affordable housing

San Jose Mercury: PG&E bankruptcy attorney’s fees: $140 million and counting

San Jose Mercury: 17% of young homebuyers regret their purchase, Zillow survey shows

Seattle Times: Starbucks pays farmers $20 million more as coffee crisis deepens

LA Times: The next big California vs. Trump fight is over water and endangered species

The Oregonian: New PacifiCorp plan slows coal plant closures, adds lots of wind and solar

Press Democrat: Local woman finds her missing cat after 6 weeks lost in Sierra

Press Democrat: Murder trial ordered in pair of pot-related Santa Rosa home invasions

Washington Post: Under Trump, the integrity of government research is in shambles

Washington Post: In fast-thawing Siberia, radical warming is warping the earth

Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019

The Guardian: Booming demand could drive tuna to extinction, researchers find

The Guardian: Doctor gets 40 years in prison for prescribing over 500,000 opioid doses

The Guardian: Trump administration's war on science has hit 'crisis point', experts warn

Washington Post: Trump to expand private-sector version of Medicare

NY Times: How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

CNBC: ‘Toxic chemical fumes,’ not oils, may be causing vaping illness, Mayo Clinic researchers find

LA Times: A Turkish town, inhabited for some 12,000 years, will soon vanish as a dam project is completed

Press Democrat: Hundreds of tires dumped along Russian River near Hopland

SF Chronicle: LSD king Owsley Stanley’s ‘Sonic Journals’ surface after 50 years

SF Chronicle: 4 Dead, Including 3 In Taxi, Following Wrong-Way Collision On Nb U.S. 101 in SF

Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019

News Atlas: Vaping crisis spreads as new study offers contradictory hypothesis

News Atlas: Ocean Cleanup starts harvesting plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

NY Times: Why Lefties Should Watch Fox News

The Guardian: America's first cannabis cafe opens in California – in pictures

LA Times: Condor chick makes first flight attempt from Utah cliff

LA Times: The biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters? Our car tires

Washington Post: Exceptional heat wave topples October records across much of the U.S.

The Guardian: Bernie Sanders cancels events after undergoing heart surgery

Vice: The Women Doing Canada's Most Dangerous Job: Fishing

Fast Company: Why I hate living in my tiny house

San Jose Mercury: Santa Cruz County man kidnapped; a body is found during search

San Jose Mercury: 7 trillion tiny pieces of plastic wash into San Francisco Bay every year, new study shows

The Verge: Google is making it easier to check if your passwords have been compromised in a data breach

NPR: Workers Are Falling Ill, Even Dying, After Making Kitchen Countertops

NY Times: Trump Suggested Shooting Migrants in Legs to Slow Them Down

Politico: A Trump hotel mystery: Giant reservations followed by empty rooms

Washington Post: A Virginia teacher was fired for refusing to use a trans student’s pronouns. Now, he’s suing his school district.