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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Thursday, Aug. 1

Politico: Gavin Newsom, firefighter-in-chief

NY Times : A Pattern of Lavish Spending at a Leading L.G.B.T.Q. Nonprofit

The Guardian: Sick sea lions stranded on California coast as experts fear algae poisoning

CapRadio: Cal Maritime pleads for merger with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to save the academy

AP News: Imane Khelif, Algeria boxer who had gender test issue, wins first Olympic fight when opponent quits

Smithsonian Magazine: Why Is the Paris Olympics Running Track Purple?

Courthouse News Service: US-Mexico border arrests are expected to drop 30% in July to a new low for Biden’s presidency

The Guardian: California ramps up removal of homeless encampments after US supreme court ruling

NY Times : How a Crisis for Vultures Led to a Human Disaster: Half a Million Deaths

Courthouse News Service: Feds reverse Southern California fishing restrictions meant to protect sea turtles

LA Times: California’s largest police group says rural departments need more officers

LA Times: The hidden role of public pensions in raising rents in California

KRCR: Park Fire devastates Chico State's Ecological Reserve, historic structures lost

BBC: Can technology fix the 'broken' concert ticketing system?

BBC: Russia to free Evan Gershkovich in biggest prisoner swap with West since Cold War

East Bay Times: SunPower solar business meltdown triggers hundreds of Bay Area layoffs

The Guardian: ‘I see what the fire may do’: the college student documenting wildfires from the frontlines

SF Gate: Map shows the homes the Park Fire destroyed and those that survived

The Guardian: US Forest Service failing to protect old growth trees from logging, critics say

Tuesday, July 30

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Team USA — including 2 from Northwest — powers to Olympic gold in women’s gymnastics

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Interior Dept. concludes 3-year probe of Indian boarding schools

Oregon Public Broadcasting: More than 1 million acres burned across Oregon, firefighters making some progress

Washington Post: Suicide rates in children have continued to climb across 15 years, study finds

Washington Post: More than 900 Native American children died at U.S. boarding schools

Washington Post: What to do if you find mold in your apartment

Washington Post: A surprising byproduct of wildfires: Contaminated drinking water

Washington Post: How to make all your food waste disappear

NY Times : How Did the Park Fire Get So Big, So Fast?

Courthouse News Service: California insurance commissioner unveils changes to state’s ‘insurer of last resort’

AP News: Utility cuts natural gas service to landslide-stricken Southern California neighborhood

AP News: Heavy rain in northern Vermont leads to washed out roads and rescues

AP News: California man saves home from wildfires after losing insurance coverage

AP News: Trump says he ‘probably’ will debate Harris but can ‘make a case for not.’ Her team says he’s scared

Reuters: Republicans call Harris a failed border czar. The truth is more complicated.

LA Times: COVID surging in California, nears two-year summer high. ‘Almost everybody has it’

NY Times : Riots at Israeli Army Bases Show Growing Divisions Over War in Gaza

Smithsonian Magazine: Watch 100,000 Dominoes Topple to the Ground in a Dazzling Eight-Minute Display

Smithsonian Magazine: Alzheimer’s Blood Test Outperforms Standard Diagnostics in New Study

NPR: 2 children killed and others injured in stabbing rampage at a dance class in England

NPR: Inflation is pinching Americans — but they are still splurging on their pets

The Guardian: Missing man’s yell brings rescuers about to end two-week Kentucky forest search

The Oregonian: Affordable housing boom surges $133M into Oregon college town

The Oregonian: This Pacific Northwest campground is one of TIME’s World’s Greatest Places

OPB: Ozempic's biggest side effect: Turning Denmark into a 'pharmastate'?

LA Times: Project 2025 plan calls for demolition of NOAA and National Weather Service

LA Times: Flora fire started by man who drove truck without a front tire for miles, Cal Fire says

East Bay Times: Undocumented immigrants in US pay nearly $100 billion in taxes

The Guardian: Costly climate ‘solutions’ look like more pollution in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

The Guardian: More than 500 Mexicans flee to Guatemala to escape cartel violence in Chiapas

The Guardian: ‘Conditions were perfect’: how the breathtaking image of Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina was taken