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Courthouse News Service: Colorado judge sentences serial suer to 12 years in prison

Courthouse News Service: Lawmakers urge DEA to pick up the pace on marijuana scheduling review

NY Times: Energy Dept. Aims to Speed Up Permits for Power Lines

Washington Post: Frontier myth vilified the California grizzly. Science tells a new story.

Daily Beast: Founding Member of The Moody Blues Dead at 82

Daily Beast: USC Cancels Graduation After Firestorm Over Pro-Palestine Valedictorian’s Speech

The Hill: US inches closer to finishing Gaza pier

NPR: José Andrés mourns slain World Central Kitchen workers in National Cathedral service

KRON: Tennessee lawmakers OK bill criminalizing adults who help minors receive gender-affirming care

KRON: Texas prosecutor declines to charge student protesters arrested at UT Austin

KTLA: USC cancels main graduation ceremony over protests, valedictorian controversy

KTLA: Indio man tried to kidnap girls as they walked to school, officials say

LA Times: Oceanside pier engulfed in flames. Firefighters work to extinguish blaze

Popular Mechanics: A New Use for Old Concrete Could Revolutionize Carbon Capture

Wired: Ads for Explicit ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are Swarming Facebook and Instagram

The Guardian: Great Britain has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds

Huffington Post: New York Appeals Court Overturns Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 Rape Conviction

Politico: Collapse of wind farm projects spoils New York’s climate goals. Here’s why.

Politico: US accuses China of backing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

AP News: More cows are being tested and tracked for bird flu. Here’s what that means

The Guardian: World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers

Smithsonian Magazine: The ‘World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing’ Will Help Animals Walk Safely Over Eight Lanes of California Traffic

The Hill: Immigration advocates see work permits as Biden’s best option

The Guardian: The Trump family’s latest side hustle: Melania’s selling $245 Mother’s Day necklaces

The Guardian: California county to review 35 death penalty cases after judge cites ‘pattern of misconduct’

BBC: Watch: Hundreds of thousands grappling with floods Floods wreak havoc in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi

BBC: US TikTok ban would be 'devastating', UK firms warn

Washington Post: Opinion: Why campus protests against Israel probably won’t be effective

Washington Post: Police arrest 108 at Emerson College as antiwar student protests spread

AP News: PHOTOS: Russian kids ride sticks with a horse’s head in hobby horsing competition

AP News: Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established

the g: Runaway horses in ‘serious condition’ after bolting through central London

AP News: Arizona indicts 18 in election interference case, including Giuliani and Meadows

AP News: Dozens arrested on California campus after students in Texas detained as Gaza war protests persist

AP News: USDA updates rules for school meals that limit added sugars for the first time

The Guardian: Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution

Washington Post: Fauci agrees to testify in Congress on covid origins, pandemic policies

LA Times: The Inland Empire’s last goat dairy farmer faces a precarious future after he was robbed of a dozen goats

Seattle Times: Scientists confine, study Chinook at restored Snoqualmie River habitat

The Oregonian: Oregon woman accused of leading money laundering cell to conceal more than $90 million in drug proceeds

The Oregonian: The Portland area had no In-N-Out Burger locations. Soon it might have three

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Southern Oregon activists claim victory after BLM changes plans in logging area

San Diego Union Tribune: Living the beach life in Tijuana and Imperial Beach under the shadow of a sewage crisis

LA Times: Newsom sent CHP officers to fight crime in Oakland. Now he’s sending them to Bakersfield

LA Times: LAPD arrests 93 people at USC amid Israel-Hamas war protests

LA Times: San Diego, not Arizona, is now the top border region for migrant arrivals

KCRA: Sacramento State student assaulted, robbed by six assailants on campus

Sacramento Bee: Trio tried to sell thousands of pounds of infected crab from Alaska in Seattle, feds say

KRON: ‘Planet of the Apes’ characters spotted on horseback at Crissy Field: photos

KTLA: High-ranking advisor to L.A. DA Gascón hit with 11 felony charges