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Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021

NPR: 8 tips to follow if you're trapped in a crushing crowd

NY Times: Rolls-Royce plans to build small nuclear power plants in Britain.

NY Times: 6 Automakers and 30 Countries Say They’ll Phase Out Gasoline Car Sales

NY Times: Are Scented Candles Harmful to Your Health?

NY Times: Hindu Sect Accused of Using Forced Labor at More Temples Across U.S.

NY Times: The Quiet Scientific Revolution That May Solve Chronic Pain

Washington Post: The world created about 8 million tons of pandemic plastic waste, and much of it is now in the ocean

Washington Post: Sinking Tuvalu prompts the question: Are you still a country if you’re underwater?

Washington Post: How Scotland plans to harness the energy of the ocean to power homes, planes and whisky distilleries

Washington Post: Oklahoma Supreme Court overturns historic opioid ruling against J&J

The Guardian: Opinion: Barack Obama has a nerve preaching about the climate crisis

The Guardian: Oceanographer Sylvia Earle calls for industrial fishing ban on high seas

The Guardian: Antihero to zero: VW rises from ‘dieselgate’ to lead charge on electric vehicles

The Guardian: Madrid residents hopping mad over rabbit plague

The Guardian: ‘There are bodies here’: survivors braced as search begins at Canada’s oldest residential school

Seattle Times: Trump-era cuts to spotted owl habitat are struck down as 'faulty' science

Mashable: Airbnb struggles to recover stolen domain name from sneaky thief

The Oregonian: Woman, 2-year-old daughter fall 50 feet off Multnomah Falls trail

The Oregonian: Revisiting Lewis & Clark’s epic journey through an Indigenous lens

LA Times: COVID-19 hospitalizations rising in parts of California, a potentially ominous sign

LA Times: USC gave Rep. Karen Bass a full scholarship worth $95,000 while she served in Congress

LA Times: Prosecutors want to charge fentanyl drug dealers with murder, sparking legal battle

LA Times: Supply chain problems delay shipments for California farmers

LA Times: Column One: They live rent-free. Now their ‘floating homeless encampment’ faces extinction

LA Times: Water district declares drought emergency in Southern California

Marin Independent Journal: Belvedere weighs tax measure for seawall project

SFGate: A suspected Bay Area Capitol rioter says he fought off hogs, snakes to get asylum in Belarus

Press Democrat: Jerry Brown focuses on saving California forests from fires

KRCR: Dunsmuir Councilman arrested for domestic violence related charges

Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021

KRCR: Return of Tribal Land: Ancestral land in Hat Creek returned to Pit River tribe

NPR: Facebook scraps ad targeting based on politics, race and other 'sensitive' topics

NPR: Oklahoma's Supreme Court tossed out a landmark $465 million opioid ruling

San Jose Mercury News: Santa Clara County jails see biggest COVID-19 surge since January

LA Times: EPA outlines $630-million plan to curtail Tijuana sewage pollution in San Diego

Monday, Nov. 8, 2021

Press Democrat: Why the wind carries promise of a new economic boom for Humboldt County

The Atlantic: How Easily Can Vaccinated People Spread COVID?

Courthouse News Service: Ukrainian man charged, another has millions seized, over July ransomware attack

Courthouse News Service: Italy convicts 70 in major mafia trial

East Bay Times: This community college degree can earn you $113,000. This Stanford one just $24,000

San Jose Mercury: California’s COVID-19 case rate now twice Florida’s — what’s up with that?

The Guardian: North Dakota Republican behind anti-vaccination rally misses it – with Covid

The Guardian: ‘I am so sick and tired’: Virginia police chief decries gun violence epidemic

BBC: Why The Amazon Is Near Tipping Point

The Guardian: French couple wins legal fight over wind ‘turbine syndrome’

LA Times: Report: Trafficking of plastic waste is on the rise and criminal groups are profiting

Courthouse News Service: Pasadena sues Caltech over groundwater contamination

Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021

NY Daily News: Business is smokin’ for Harlem weed store on wheels as NY marijuana laws remain in gray area

SFGate: This rare and elusive Calif. mammal survived the Dixie Fire. Scientists are thrilled.

NY Times: Antarctica Was Once a Land of Fire and Not Ice

NPR: At 89, a man earned a Ph.D. in physics to fulfill his childhood dream