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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Sacramento Bee: California bill would stop cities from fining, jailing homeless people for camping

KRCR: Teen charged with attempted murder after shocking stabbing at Gridley High School

KCRA: Consumer Reports: Your car may be spying on you. How to get it to stop

Pro Publica: A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education

CNN: Democrats narrowly win a Pennsylvania Senate seat, scoring an upset in Republican-leaning suburbs

Washington Post: Trump officials working to strip FEMA’s role in disaster recovery by Oct. 1

USA Today: US citizens getting pulled aside: Travelers fear scrutiny at the border is rising

BBC: Could a star-bathing retreat help calm your frazzled mind?

BBC: Canada PM Mark Carney says old relationship with US 'is over'

Pro Publica: Texas GOP Lawmakers Propose Amending Abortion Ban Linked to Deaths and a Rise in Sepsis Cases

PBS News: News Wrap: Health and Human Services cutting workforce by nearly 25 percent

Pro Publica: How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China

NBC News: Want to reach 70 without chronic disease? Eat plants and avoid processed food, 30-year study says

SF Gate: Republican-controlled Congress removes funding for California coast

Politico: Senate votes to overturn CFPB overdraft rule, in new blow for agency

SF Gate: Bodies found in abandoned car in Santa Cruz Mountains being investigated as homicide

SF Gate: 3 Bay Area universities to merge services amid 'painful yet necessary' budget cuts

Politico: Trump changes his tune on Signalgate: ‘I always thought it was Mike’

Politico: Rubio says State Department has revoked more than 300 student visas

Washington Post: These 5 words have killed millions in grants and advanced Trump’s agenda

NPR: The Trump administration restructures federal health agencies, cuts 20,000 jobs

Washington Post: Internal White House document shows agencies preparing to cut between 8% and 50% of staff

Smithsonian Magazine: Sea Lion Bites Surfer Amid One of the Worst Outbreaks of Domoic Acid Poisoning That California Wildlife Rescuers Can Remember

AP News: A stabbing attack in Amsterdam wounds five people, including four foreigners

Courthouse News Service: Southwest tribes ask Ninth Circuit to revive challenge to high voltage transmission line

Reuters: Exclusive: Trump administration is pointing spy satellites at US border

Reuters: Exclusive: US pauses financial contributions to WTO, trade sources say

AP News: One Tech Tip: Don’t give your email to strangers, use a decoy address instead

AP News: NATO clarifies comments that four missing US soldiers had died during training in Lithuania

AP News: Appeals court refuses to halt an order for the rehiring of thousands of fired federal workers

Smithsonian Magazine: What Archaeologists Are Uncovering About the Buddha in His Legendary Nepali Hometown

NPR: Trump team revokes $11 billion in funding for addiction, mental health care

OPB: BLM rushes review of Oregon lithium project following Trump’s executive order

OPB: Trump administration halts millions of dollars in deliveries to Oregon food banks

KQED: San Mateo County Measles Case Highlights Risk for Unvaccinated, Expert Says

KQED: Bay Area Air Traffic Control Is Down to 1 Meteorologist After Trump's Hiring Freeze

KQED: ‘Never-Before-Seen’ Documents Reveal EPA Canceled 63 Grants Across California

The Oregonian: What on Earth caused the mysterious blue spiral over Europe?

The Oregonian: An Oregon experiment to tackle teen addiction hits a setback

The Guardian: In the hills of Italy, wolves returned from the brink. Then the poisonings began

The Guardian: Kansas babysitter checking for monsters finds man hiding under bed

Reuters: US corporate profits surge in fourth quarter

BBC: Six dead and 39 rescued after tourist submarine sinks in Red Sea, says local governor

BBC: Germany leads defiance to Trump car tariffs, saying it 'will not give in'

Courthouse News Service: Medical freedom group fails to get around California school vaccine mandate

The Atlantic: Trump Is Deporting ‘Them’ in Ways That Threaten Us

Courthouse News Service: Public broadcasting CEOs defend programming as GOP looks slash federal funds

KRCR: Red Bluff moves to close city's only official homeless encampment by April 18

KRCR: Merryman sentenced to life without parole for triple murder in Shasta County

The Guardian: Trump administration at ‘war’ with mRNA technology: scientists alarmed vaccine skeptics could kill research