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Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021

Politico: Tesla’s German factory pits politicians against environmentalists

AP News: Experts warn of dangers from breach of voter system software

Seattle Times: Oregon counties request trucks for bodies as COVID deaths climb

NY Times: Give the People What They Clearly Need: More National Parks

NY Times: What Trump’s Disgraceful Deal With the Taliban Has Wrought

NY Times: Five Decades Later, Medicare Might Cover Dental Care

Washington Post: Wisconsin towns await influx of Afghans — and wonder what it will mean

Washington Post: There’s no escape from Facebook, even if you don’t use it

Washington Post: He is Britain’s famous shepherd-author-influencer. He wants to transform farming to save the planet.

Washington Post: U.S. boarding schools for Indians had a hidden agenda: Stealing land

NY Daily News: Shyne: Jailed, deported rap star returns to U.S. and NYC as foreign diplomat

NY Daily News: Contracting and beating COVID provides better protection against delta variant than Pfizer shot, new research shows

The Oregonian: College students among Oregon Army National Guard soldiers helping overwhelmed hospitals

The Hill: FDA sees growing pressure to authorize vaccines for children under 12

KTLA: Instagram star helps raise funds to rescue dozens from Afghanistan

KTLA: Crews battle 1,200-acre Chaparral Fire near Cleveland National Forest

KCRA: Parts of the country are running out of oxygen supply as COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations soar

NPR: Thousands March In D.C. For Voting Rights

NPR: Delta-Fueled Infections Are Moving Through Rural, Southern Oregon 'Like A Buzzsaw'

The Guardian: Protein dream: can eating collagen improve your skin?

The Guardian: Australia reports over 1,000 new cases; England’s Covid infections are 26 times up on a year ago

Vox: The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America’s elderly

CNN: Donald Trump's recounting of his 2020 conversation with a Taliban leader is something else

The Guardian: Is deep-sea mining a cure for the climate crisis or a curse?

The Guardian: New Book: Battle for the Alamo was about slavery, not freedom

The Guardian: Chinese university appears to ask for lists of LGBTQ+ students for ‘investigation’

The Guardian: Sirhan Sirhan: six Kennedy children condemn decision to grant killer parole

The Guardian: Floating wind turbines could open up vast ocean tracts for renewable power

The Guardian: SoCal: mother fights off mountain lion with bare hands to save 5-year-old son

LA Times: Wildfire in Riverside County community grows to 1,200 acres, prompting evacuations

LA Times: Mountain lion killed after mauling 5-year-old in Santa Monica Mountains

Press Democrat: In heyday of LSD, secret Windsor lab produced millions of Orange Sunshine pills

Press Democrat: Big wholesale price drop weighs down small North Coast cannabis farmers

USA Today: 'Egregiously mishandled' or inevitably 'messy'? What went wrong in US withdrawal from Afghanistan

AP News: Brazil water survey heightens alarm over extreme drought

AP News: Packed with virus patients, Louisiana hospitals await Ida

AP News: Intensifying Cat 4 Hurricane Ida to hit Louisiana today

LA Times: Hurricane Ida rapidly intensifies into dangerous Category 4 storm

LA Times: Del Norte: Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination rates

Anderson Valley Advertiser: Lawsuit Alleges Mendo Officials Conspired to Rob Pot Dealers

Anderson Valley Advertiser: Fire, Water & Broken Pot Rules

Redding Record Searchlight: Update: Fire in south Redding prompts evacuations in neighborhoods west of Highway 273

Redding Record Searchlight: Fire updates: Army sending reinforcements; 'elevated fire weather' in forecast

Tahoe Daily Tribune: Nevada casinos set all-time record in July, raking in $1.36 billion

Tahoe Daily Tribune: Oxygen bar offers relief to Tahoe’s smoke filled skies

SF Chronicle: Caldor Fire now 12 miles from Tahoe Basin, more than 34,000 people evacuated

SF Chronicle: South Lake Tahoe prepares to evacuate if Caldor Fire makes a run toward city

Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021

Seattle Times: Tension over visible homelessness has risen in Seattle — and the country

NY Times: The Morally Troubling ‘Dirty Work’ We Pay Others to Do in Our Place

NY Times: Corona Virus: Show Me the Data!