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Sunday, Nov. 30

AP News: Investigators plead for tips after 3 children, 1 adult killed in shooting at child’s birthday party

Action News Now: Fight breaks out at Shasta Lake youth football event

Reuters: Mourners flock to site of deadly Hong Kong blaze as Beijing warns against protests

The Atlantic: Why the Gulf Monarchs Shower Trump With Gifts

The Atlantic: The Germans Who Stood Up to Hitler

Smithsonian Magazine: Two College Students Are Building a Robot to Replant Burned Forests

BBC: Greek sheep and goat cull raises fears of feta cheese shortage

NY Times : Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

NY Times : The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine

Washington Post: The tech fix that can clear the Western range of its barbed wire

The Guardian: All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches

BBC: How to boost your calorie-crunching brown fat in the cold winter months

BBC: The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation

AP News: Swiss voters reject mandatory national service for women and new inheritance tax

The Hill: Cumin seeds could help with lower cholesterol, weight loss: Study

AP News: Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake ‘parking lot’

The Guardian: Power surge: law changes could soon bring balcony solar to millions across US

The Guardian: EPA urged to ban spraying of antibiotics on US food crops amid resistance fears

Reuters: US FDA memo links 10 child deaths to COVID vaccines

Reuters: Tropical storm deaths top 600 in Southeast Asia, over 4 million affected

BBC: Bhutan's long-secluded 'hidden paradise'

BBC: Benjamin Netanyahu seeks pardon from Israel's president

OPB: A federal defense contractor is seeking hundreds of coastal Oregon hotel rooms, city of Newport says

The Hill: House committee seeks ‘full accounting’ of boat strike after WaPo ‘kill everybody’ report

The Hill: New type of flu emerges: What to know about the new K variant of influenza A

OPB: Northwest horses can’t travel following a national equine herpesvirus outbreak

The Oregonian: Taiwanese authorities raid Intel exec’s home, seize his computers

Courthouse News Service: Judge slams California for allowing off-road vehicles at Oceano Dunes

KTLA: Off-duty paramedic rescues 7-year-old girl from Thanksgiving fire

KTLA: Dutch Bros opens first Los Angeles location near USC campus

KTLA: Burglars ransack South Los Angeles barbershop, kidnap beloved cat

SF Gate: Trump's face on new national park passes outrages conservationists

KCRA: Sacramento hosts 50th annual Hmong New Year festival at Cal Expo

CBS News : 48 cars broken into on Thanksgiving at Manteca's Great Wolf Lodge

CBS News : U.S. consumers spent a record $11.8 billion online during Black Friday sales

KRON: NJ sisters die saving dad from Thanksgiving fire

KRON: 3 injured in San Jose Black Friday mall shooting: police

KRON: Bay Area content creator transforms BART train into Thanksgiving celebration

KRCR: Black Humboldt launches free mental health initiatives in Humboldt County

San Jose Mercury News: Escalating fight over Bay Area mobile home park rules heralds larger policy battle over key affordable housing stock

Marin Independent Journal: Marin housing aid imperiled by federal policy switch

Marin Independent Journal: North Bay architect builds replica of historic landmark lost in wildfire

SF Gate: Father who took his children on hike in Utah wilderness charged with child abuse

SF Gate: This tiny Bay Area town has become an unexpected destination

East Bay Times: This Thanksgiving, weed smokers are grateful for ‘Green Wednesday’

East Bay Times: Third attempt to repeal Prop. 19’s tax burden on inherited property aims for 2026 ballot

KRCR: Multiple firefighters injured in fire engine rollover in Alturas: CHP

SF Gate: Chinook salmon are populating farther up a Bay Area creek for the first time in decades

SF Gate: New details released on Black Friday shooting at Westfield Valley Fair mall

East Bay Times: Gone in 30 seconds: East Bay thieves are stealing cars with ease, thanks to a legal gadget anyone can buy