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Reuters: The strategy helping young buyers afford homes

Reuters: How Trump's long-shot voting bill could hurt his own supporters

The Guardian: Cheese from largest US raw milk distributor linked to E coli outbreak

MSN News: Number of US troops wounded in Iran war surpasses 200 across 7 countries

Washington Post: This app is quietly reformulating America’s food supply

NY Times : We Study Mass Shooters. Something Terrifying Is Happening Online.

Washington Post: Reporter says gamblers pressured him to change story about missile strike so they could win

The Guardian: Revealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating

BBC: Is it possible to build a plastic-free home?

AP News: What’s in the voting bill that Republicans are pushing to the Senate floor

Pro Publica: This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines.

High Country News: How federal cuts are reshaping Alaska’s communities, research and species management

Courthouse News Service: Ninth Circuit thwarts attempt to halt copper mine on Apache land

The Hill: Opinion: How a first-grader taught her school district and a federal judge about free speech

The Hill: Republicans collide with Trump over no-excuse absentee voting, SAVE Act

Courthouse News Service: California officials push back against oil pipeline reopening

Courthouse News Service: Meningitis outbreak in England kills 2, leaves 11 critically ill

The Oregonian: Drone footage shows herculean effort to remove 60 acres of logs from popular Clackamas County boating spot

The Guardian: Afghanistan says 400 killed in strike by Pakistan on Kabul hospital

KQED: San Francisco Leaders Hope to Spark City’s Cannabis Scene

The Oregonian: Scream clubs offer high-decibel stress relief

The Oregonian: Sheriff’s divers find infant’s body in Oregon river, say dad confessed to child’s killing

OPB: Mystery orcas from afar thrill Seattle-area whale watchers

SF Gate: Calif. men accused of roughhousing in museum, shattering mammoth tusk

KTLA: High gas prices spark debate over California’s gas tax

KRCR: Shasta County accuses local gun club of damaging Clear Creek

AP News: Thousands of workers strike at one of the largest meatpacking plants in the US

Action News Now: Shasta County's True North Behavioral Campus denied state funding

San Jose Mercury News: Popular Bay Area oceanfront park to triple in size under proposed deal

San Jose Mercury News: 30 tons of steel: Inside a $3.5 million California fire-resistant house

KRON: Snow resorts suffer as Lake Tahoe region sees unprecedented warm temperatures

SF Gate: Controversial oil drilling resumes off Calif. coast as gas prices spike

SF Gate: 110 planned homes near Yosemite National Park spark controversy

SF Gate: Hawaii storm dumps up to 46 inches of rain, breaks decades-old record

KRON: $7 gas at Bay Area station shocks drivers: ‘Never seen anything like this’

Thursday, March 12

BBC: Suspect who attacked Michigan synagogue is dead and security guard injured, police say

NY Times : Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

Washington Post: A record heat dome is about to hit the West — in March

AP News: Human waste backing up in basements is a gut-churning sign of US infrastructure problems

The Guardian: New satirical statue depicts Trump and Epstein as doomed lovers from Titanic

The Guardian: Noma chef resigns amid allegations of physical abuse of staff

AP News: Robot rabbits the latest tool in Florida battle to control invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades

Politico Magazine: Why DOJ Hasn’t Charged Anyone Else From the Epstein Files

The Atlantic: The Real Reason California Can’t Build

The Hill: What to know about cychlorphine, the synthetic opioid 10 times stronger than fentanyl

The Hill: Rahm Emanuel’s prescription for inflicting pain on Trump over Iran

The Guardian: The California town that lost its mayor to gun suicide

OPB: No Nobles Day: Britain's Parliament boots its last hereditary Lords after 700 years

OPB: How Oregon scientists are solving the problem of Crater Lake’s dying trees

The Guardian: ‘Unbelievably unequal’: report shows how 1% of Mexicans own 40% of country’s wealth