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Tuesday, May 18, 2021
NY Times: From India, Brazil and Beyond: Pandemic Refugees at the Border
Vox: The FCC’s big bet on Elon Musk's Starlink Internet Project
Monday, May 17, 2021
The Guardian: ‘This is environmental racism’: activists call on Biden to stop new plastics plants in ‘Cancer Alley’
The Guardian: Twenty firms produce 55% of world’s plastic waste, report reveals
The Hill: Chernobyl is showing signs of a possible new nuclear accident
Huffington Post: AT&T Signs Deal To Combine Media Operations, Including CNN, With Discovery
KTLA: Monthly child tax credit payments to be sent to millions of families beginning July 15
Washington Post: He was banned from having guns after his Capitol riot arrest. Then he shot a mountain lion, feds say.
Washington Post: A man left three dead in a bullet-riddled car at the ER. They were all in the Aryan Brotherhood, feds say.
NPR: Fighting Weight: How Military Recruiters Take On Obesity, Case By Case
NPR: As Lumber Prices Climb, DIY-ers Cut Out The Middle Man And Mill Their Own
Washington Post: Scientists unravel a mystery about a naked giant carved into an English hill
Washington Post: Black, Brown and extremist: Across the far-right spectrum, people of color play a more visible role
NY Times: Wild Horses Adopted Under a Federal Program Are Going to Slaughter
Daily Beast: John Oliver Accuses Israel of ‘War Crimes’ and ‘Apartheid’ Against Palestinians
BBC: Long working hours killing 745,000 people a year, study finds
NY Times: Long Before Divorce, Bill Gates Had Reputation for Questionable Behavior
Orange Co. Register: Plugging deadly holes in California’s addiction treatment system
San Jose Mercury: University of California system will no longer require SAT and ACT scores for admission after settlement reached 1
The Hill: US billionaire wealth skyrocketed 55 percent during pandemic — accelerating inequality
The Hill: Ivy League scientist says NASA may have accidentally spread life to Mars
The Hill: Trump expected to resume rallies in June
The Oregonian: Report: Microsoft investigated Gates before he left board
The Guardian: Gaza rocked by fresh airstrikes after Netanyahu vows to keep attacks at ‘full force’
The Guardian: Indigenous People: Yanomami beset by violent land-grabs, hunger and disease in Brazil
The Guardian: Tokyo Olympics: more than 80% of Japanese oppose hosting Games – poll
The Guardian: The FBI is supposed to track how police use force – years later, it’s falling well short
NY Post: NJ cop busted for running meth lab out of home
LA Times: Newsom offers $1 billion to complete ‘critical’ transit projects before 2028 Olympics
LA Times: Appeals court upholds $25-million verdict against maker of Roundup
LA Times: After extraordinary delay, Robert Durst’s murder trial to resume amid jury questions
KRCR: 2 hospitalized, 13 detained after shooting in Happy Valley
SF Chronicle: Police: 2 arson suspects detained in Los Angeles wildfire
Sunday, May 16, 2021
The Guardian: Michael Lewis: ‘We were incentivised to have a bad pandemic response’
The Guardian: Big pharma executives mocked ‘pillbillies’ in emails, West Virginia opioid trial hears
LA Times: Kroger, blasted for ending hazard pay, gave CEO $22 million
Press Democrat: Vandenberg Air Force Base renamed Space Force Base
Press Democrat: Sonoma County’s tourism sector took $1 billion pandemic blow in 2020
Press Democrat: ‘Burn it on our terms’: How local controlled burns aim to curb risk of catastrophic wildfires
KTLA: Environmental groups, scientists call for reintroduction of jaguars in U.S. Southwest
LA Times: Pacific Palisades fire grows to 750 acres, spurs evacuations
SF Chronicle: 'Don't tell me what to f-king do': Eric Swalwell, Marjorie Taylor Greene staffer tussle over masks
SF Chronicle: Water crisis 'couldn't be worse' on Oregon-California border
Friday, May 14, 2021
LA Times: Federal court pauses order to offer shelter to everyone on L.A.’s skid row by fall
Sacramento Bee: Prosecutors want to halt new good-time release credits for 76,000 California inmates
Sacramento Bee: ‘Unprecedented’: Nearly 60,000 Sacramentans can’t find an affordable home
East Bay Times: Growing number in the GOP downplaying Jan. 6 attack
KRCR: Redding woman lost over $200,000 to scammers, elderly scams on the rise
SF Chronicle: Santa Clara U. President Resigns After Inappropriate Behavior, Officials Say
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