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Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022

NY Times : Disgust is one of the primal emotions that define — and explain — humanity.

NY Times : Counterculture to Counterintuitive: Cannabis to Help You Diet?

NY Times : Puerto Rico Faces Staggering Covid Case Explosion

Washington Post: Thomas E. Lovejoy III, an ecologist who dedicated his career to preserving the Amazon rainforest, dies at 80

Washington Post: Your cat could burn your house down, South Korean officials warn after 100 fires

Washington Post: The USDA’s new labeling for genetically modified foods goes into effect Jan. 1. Here’s what you need to know.

Washington Post: NHL fan spotted staffer’s mole from the stands. Now he’s cancer-free, and she has a scholarship to med school.

Washington Post: 1 in 3 Americans say there can be justified violence against government, citing fears of political schism, pandemic

Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022

Washington Post: Wampanoag, who helped Pilgrims survive, win rights to tribal lands

Washington Post: Tongass National Forest: This tree has stood here for 500 years. Will it be sold for $17,500?

MSN News: ‘Live with it’: Betty White defied racist demands in 1954

Washington Post: First all-Black team of climbers heading to Everest

Washington Post: China harvests masses of data on Western targets from social media, documents show

NY Times : Counterculture to Counterintuitive: Cannabis to Help You Diet?

NY Times : China’s Ban on ‘Sissy Men’ Is Bound to Backfire

The Oregonian: Seattle-area man charged in assault on referee, 72, during son’s middle school basketball game

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Colorado fires burn up to 1,000 homes, spread in ‘blink of an eye’

BBC: Colorado: Residents return following devastating fire

The Guardian: 100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying

The Guardian: Can’t quit, won’t quit: confessions of a die-hard smoker

The Guardian: After three years of chaos, six US teens tell us how school could be different

The Guardian: Spanish town comes together in hunt for ‘Galician Rambo’

The Guardian: ‘Everyone came at once’: America’s national parks reckon with record-smashing year

Reuters: U.S. officials ask AT&T, Verizon to delay 5G wireless over aviation safety concerns

Reuters: Massive sewage spill closes California beaches

NPR: ICU teams report fatigue and frustration as they brace for omicron surge

LA Times: Beaches in Long Beach, L.A. and Orange counties closed after sewage spill of up to 4 million gallons

LA Times: Younger adults driving virus surge in Southern California

East Bay Times: Time Is Ripe: Support California small fisheries in year of aquaculture

East Bay Times: Marshall fire may have destroyed 1,000 homes in Boulder County, officials say

Fresno Bee: See the trailer park near Yosemite where residents are being evicted without compensation

Fresno Bee: Yosemite is forcing homeowners to leave without compensation. Here’s why

KRCR: CA courts will use state income tax records for jury duty starting Jan. 2022

KRCR: Arrest made in double homicide investigation in Shasta County

KRCR: Redding woman wears body armor, fires gun to scare off repairmen at motel on Park Marina

Ukiah Daily Journal: Mendocino County water agencies ask PG&E to increase flows from Potter Valley Project

SFGate: Map shows almost all of California out of ‘exceptional drought’ after week’s storms

SFGate: Hundreds of Afghans denied humanitarian entry into US

SFGate: Developer purchases Beesley Cottages in Tahoe for luxury casino-resort

Press Democrat: On the lam: Santa Rosa native and Capitol rioter now seeking political asylum in Belarus

Business Insider: Omicron might be milder because it has a less effective way of attacking lung cells, studies say

Friday, Dec. 31, 2021

KTLA: 2 wounded in shooting at Mall of America

KTLA: Some L.A. County beaches closed after untreated sewage spill of 6 to 7 million gallons

LA Times: Tribes and conservationists sue toblock two geothermal power plants in Nevada

NPR: United States of Wildfire

Deadline: California’s New Covid Quarantine & Isolation Guidelines Are Stricter Than CDC’s

CNBC: Bank accidentally deposits $176 million into people’s accounts on Christmas Day

Washington Post: Omicron has passed peak in South Africa, causing relatively few deaths and hospitalizations, authorities say

Reuters: Tesla recalls almost half a million electric cars over safety issues

NPR: High winds, severe drought, and warm temps led to Colorado's historic wildfire