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Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020

Daily Beast: These Rogue Sheriffs Won’t Even Give Their Prisoners Masks

Huffington Post: At Least 90 U.S. Capitol Police Officers Have Contracted COVID-19

NY Times: Wealthier, Whiter Areas Are More Likely to Get Help After Fires, Data Show

NY Times: HOW RUSSIA WINS THE CLIMATE CRISIS: Agriculture

NY Times: Pandemic Leaves More Military Families Seeking Food Assistance

NY Times: Limiting capacity to 20 percent prevents almost all infections

NY Times: Trump Appointees Describe the Crushing of the C.D.C.

The Verge: Facebook criticizes Apple’s iOS privacy changes with full-page newspaper ads

CNBC: A $7 trillion climate change warning to the stock market from its biggest shareholder

Far Out Magazine: This is what Eric Clapton thought about The Grateful Dead

The Guardian: Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled in UK to treat depression

Washington Post: A new Trump rule could shrink protected habitat for endangered wildlife

Washington Post: Biden picks former EPA chief Gina McCarthy as White House climate czar

Washington Post: Critique: Bill Barr was a disdainful block of gray

Washington Post: Hundreds of invitees skip Mike Pompeo’s indoor holiday party at State Department

Washington Post: The U.S. government spent billions on a system for detecting hacks. The Russians outsmarted it.

Washington Post: FDA authorizes first rapid, over-the-counter home coronavirus test

The Guardian: Shuteye and sleep hygiene: the truth about why you keep waking up at 3am

The Guardian: An app could catch 98.5% of all Covid-19 infections. Why isn't it available?

The Guardian: 'Like nothing seen in nature before': strange dinosaur has scientists enthralled

The Guardian: What you need to know about the biggest hack of the US government in years

The Guardian: Trump administration has executed more Americans than all states combined, report finds

The Hill: Senate GOP to Trump: The election is over

The Hill: DeVos urges Education Dept. staff to 'resist' when Biden takes office

The Hill: Neighbors stress Trump can't live at Mar-a-Lago resort after leaving White House

The Hill: Democrats press to bar lawmakers from carrying guns in the Capitol

NPR: All The Oomph, Minus The Vroom? Electric Pickups Take Aim At American Market

NPR: Distant Cousins Of Food Crops Deserve Respect And Protection

NPR: Scores Of Private Charitable Foundations Got Paycheck Protection Program Money

MIT Tech Review: How Russian hackers infiltrated the US government for months without being spotted

Discover Magazine: Solar Panel Waste: The Dark Side of Clean Energy

Smithsonian Magazine: These Conservation Stories Prove 2020 Was Not All Bad News

NY Post: Kansas mayor resigns amid threats after supporting COVID-19 mask mandate

NY Post: Jeff Bezo's ex-wife gives nearly $4.2B to charity in 4 months amid pandemic

KTLA: Mobile field hospitals being deployed around O.C. to help with influx of COVID-19 patients: Officials

KTLA: ‘Frightening’ reality: L.A. County has fewer than 100 ICU beds available with worst of surge expected to come

KTLA: ‘Christmas Star’ to form this week for 1st time in 800 years; here’s how to watch

KTLA: Ongoing COVID-19 surge has ICUs at capacity, hospitals turning to desperate measures

EuroNews: Millions of kilos of plastic packaging from Amazon are devastating the environment, says report

Seattle Times: FDIC eases path for giants like Amazon and Facebook to become lenders

Seattle Times: Seattle plans to clear homeless encampment from Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill

The Oregonian: Klamath Falls cop arrested after drug-related car crash

The Oregonian: Kindergarten teacher delivering supplies carjacked at gunpoint in NE Portland, police say

The Oregonian: Uber driver — an Iraqi refugee working to bring new wife to U.S. — on life support after suspected mistaken shooting

The Oregonian: All of Oregon Coast now classified at ‘extreme risk’ of COVID-19 spread, Gov. Kate Brown says

Mt. Shasta News: Mount Shasta council won't fine businesses who defy mask mandate

AP News: A pandemic atlas: USA by the numbers, telling and horrifying

AP News: Negotiators make progress on long-delayed COVID-19 aid bill

AP News: Dutch court refuses to return painting to Jewish heirs

LA Times: ‘Stunned at the price tag,’ L.A. councilman asks city to study cost of tiny home villages