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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

The Atlantic: The Great American Eye-Exam Scam

The Guardian: Global oil demand 'could exceed pre-Covid levels without clean energy moves'

The Guardian: Why mushrooms are the new houseplant everybody's growing

The Guardian: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information

The Guardian: ‘They aren't used to losing’: wealthy New York enclave battles over offshore windfarm

Sacramento Bee: Eureka Police degraded women in texts, called COVID patient ‘outbreak monkey’

East Bay Times: Coronavirus strains first detected in California are officially ‘variants of concern,’ CDC says

East Bay Times: San Mateo becomes first Bay Area county to reach orange tier

East Bay Times: Second suspect charged in fatal Oakland attack on Asian-American senior

LA Times: Need help paying rent? California is accepting rental relief applications

LA Times: Hawaii coffee farmers hope lawsuit settlements guarantee the Kona in your cup is real

LA Times: Surge of migrant families and youths overwhelms Border Patrol in Texas

KTLA: 2 people killed in Ontario house fire sparked by fireworks

KRCR: "Ongoing investigation" for RPD Corporal arrested during drug bust

NY Times: Tony Hawk and Family Hit the Open Road During Quarantine

NY Times: How to Clean Up the Steel Industry? Bacteria, Hydrogen and a Lot of Cash.

NY Times: A Close-Up Picture of Partisan Segregation, Among 180 Million Voters

NY Times: The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon

NY Times: Double Masking Can Get Tricky. Here’s an Easy Way to Do It Right.

NY Times: ‘When Normal Life Stopped’: College Essays Reflect a Turbulent Year

Washington Post: Republican attorneys general threaten key element of the $1.9 trillion stimulus

Washington Post: A dispute about splitting a $1,400 stimulus check led to the fatal shooting of four people

Washington Post: Eight killed, including six Asian women, in Atlanta-area spa shootings; suspect arrested after manhunt

Washington Post: Jesuits pledge $100 million for descendants of enslaved people the Catholic order once owned

Washington Post: Russia targeted people close to Trump in bid to influence 2020 election, U.S. intelligence says

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

NY Times: 8 Immigrants Killed in Border City Crash

AP News: McConnell vows ‘scorched earth’ if Senate ends filibuster

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 8 dead in metro Atlanta spa shootings; 1 suspect captured

The Hill: Trump urges supporters to get coronavirus vaccine

Washington Post: Is it good or bad for you? Experts are split on role of alcohol in diet.

Washington Post: New EPA administrator: ‘Science is back’

Washington Post: Florida high-schooler and her mother hacked school records to steal homecoming queen election, police say

Washington Post: CDC identifies public-health guidance from the Trump administration that downplayed pandemic severity

Washington Post: Army initially pushed to deny District’s request for National Guard before Jan. 6

NY Times: The Making of a ‘European Yellowstone’

NY Times: Purdue Pharma Offers Plan to End Sackler Control and Mounting Lawsuits

NY Times: Murder Rate Remains Elevated as New Crime Reporting System Begins

NY Times: There’s a Global Plan to Conserve Nature. Indigenous People Could Lead the Way.

NY Times: Plenty of Vaccines, but Not Enough Arms: A Warning Sign in Cherokee Nation

Digg: The Hysterical Moment A Podcaster Realizes Wind Turbines Are Not For Cooling The Planet

NY Times: This Pharmacist Had Vaccine Doses to Spare. So He Hit the Road.

The Guardian: Eating up the rainforest: China’s taste for beef drives exports from Brazil

The Guardian: FBI facing allegation that its 2018 background check of Brett Kavanaugh was ‘fake’

The Guardian: Good vibrations: bladeless turbines could bring wind power to your home

The Guardian: 'We forget our troubles': crystal meth use rises during lockdown in Zimbabwe

The Guardian: Mexico escalates immigration raids to stem flow of Central American migrants

The Guardian: Deb Haaland confirmed as first Indigenous US cabinet secretary

The Guardian: Dead Sea scroll fragments and 'world's oldest basket' found in desert cave

The Guardian: El Paso shelters scramble to make room for migrant children crossing into US

LA Times: Police break up massive student block party in San Luis Obispo