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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Thursday, Jan. 2

The Guardian: Authorities believe ‘multiple people are involved’ in New Orleans truck attack that killed 15 – latest updates

The Atlantic: The Isolation of Intensive Parenting

Washington Post: Controversial red dye found in candy, drinks and snacks could soon be banned

Washington Post: More children are getting kidney stones. Experts think it’s their diet.

AP News: Biden is giving the 2nd highest civilian award to the leaders of the Jan. 6 congressional committee

AP News: 10 people are wounded in a shooting outside a New York City nightclub

AP News: Fireworks explosion in Honolulu kills 3 people and injures at least 20

The Oregonian: Only a third of Oregon’s kelp forests remain

Smithsonian Magazine: The Lasting Legacy of Jimmy Carter, Dead at 100

The Oregonian: Nearly 5,000 Providence health workers across Oregon plan open-ended strike

KPTV: Picturesque Oregon landmark blown over in holiday windstorm

KPTV: Oregon records highest whooping cough case count since 1950

Courthouse News Service: Judge blocks parts of California bid to protect kids from social media

BBC: Zimbabwe boy of eight survives five days in lion-inhabited game park

BBC: Polar vortex to bring freezing weather to US

Sacramento Bee: Opinion: Agricultural burning began in 1859. It ends in the Central Valley on January 1, 2025

LA Times: Another raw pet food H5N1 bird flu recall. More sick cats in L.A. County

LA Times: Cannabis cafes, A.I. and parking: How new California laws could affect you in 2025

KPIX: 4.7 earthquake strikes Northern California's Lake County on New Year's Day

East Bay Times: How a flying ferry could help solve Tahoe’s traffic problem

Sierra Daily News: Rainbow Family Gathering member files $25,000 claim against Lassen County

Sierra Daily News: Those real-looking FasTrak texts? They’re really a scam

SF Chronicle: More than 2,000 pounds of illegally caught fish seized from boat at S.F. pier

SF Gate: Why was a gigantic Virgin Mary statue built on a California's Mt. Shasta?

AP News: Firework mortars, gas cannisters stuffed inside Tesla that exploded outside Trump’s Las Vegas hotel

AP News: US Army veteran who killed 15 in New Orleans attack was inspired by the Islamic State group

East Bay Times: Monterey County hiker rescued in 16-hour recovery operation

East Bay Times: 10 tips from experts to help you change your relationship with money in 2025

Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024

The Guardian: The Walmart Effect: Making communities poorer

The Atlantic: What the Left Refused to Understand About Women’s Sports

Washington Post: The oldest animal ever found could reveal whether a crucial ocean current will collapse

The Guardian: ‘The forest will survive’: the volunteers saving Kharkiv’s war-charred woodland

The Guardian: Virginia man accused of amassing largest homemade explosives cache ever found by FBI

SF Gate: San Francisco counterculture legend who invented bell-bottom jeans dies at 84

Washington Post: Ozempic economics: How GLP-1s will disrupt the economy in 2025

Reuters: US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident'

BBC: Bat-watching, beach explorations and 'sniff' walks: How nature can provide a tonic for loneliness

Axios: Severe storms threatening U.S. South unleash tornadoes, kill 4 people

The Oregonian: Downed power line sparks fires, shocks three firefighters and another person in Vancouver

The Guardian: Netherlands to open archive on people accused of wartime Nazi collaboration

The Guardian: ‘This is medicine’: inside the psilocybin retreat for US first responders

BBC: Madoff fraud victims get $4.3bn as fund completes payouts

BBC: What we know about US work visas Trump supporters are clashing over

The Cool Down: Scientists make concerning discovery while studying autopsied brains

Phys.Org: Microplastics found in multiple human organ tissues correlated with lesions

KCRA: Woman robbed at gunpoint in Folsom movie theater, police say

AP News: Nearly all of Puerto Rico is without power on New Year’s Eve

The Guardian: Sixty-mile drag mark found near damaged Baltic Sea cable, says Finland

The Guardian: Weather tracker: Giant waves bring rare surfing event to Hawaii

The Guardian: LeBron James at 40: NBA’s brightest star stares down the dying of the light