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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Sunday, June 29

KRON: SFPD arrest nearly 100 people in one-day fugitive enforcement crackdown

KRON: Target testing digital shelf-unlocking tech for shoppers

San Jose Mercury News: Despite $12 billion state budget shortfall, Newsom and California Dems defer major spending cuts

San Jose Mercury News: Lake Tahoe boating tragedy: Two survivors wore life jackets

San Jose Mercury News: Stanford University announces $140 million in budget cuts, possible layoffs amid federal policy shifts

SF Gate: The historic California neighborhood where homes are sold only via word of mouth

SF Gate: The rude guest habit that's ruining Disneyland rides for everyone else

East Bay Times: After scam cost elderly East Bay woman $200K, police used fake cash to arrest courier

Thursday, June 26

Reuters: Trump administration will put Abrego on trial before deporting him again

The Guardian: ‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

The Guardian: RFK Jr’s new vaccine panel votes against preservative in flu shots in shock move

NPR: Faith Kipyegon tries for breaking the 4-minute mile, but falls seconds short

Smithsonian Magazine: The World’s Oldest Boomerang Is Even Older Than Scientists Thought, a New Analysis Suggests

Smithsonian Magazine: These Colorful Satellite Views Reveal Our Forests in Unprecedented Detail and Showcase the Potential of the New Biomass Mission

Politico: Former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy says ‘democracy is at risk’

The Hill: Bill Moyers, former White House press secretary and acclaimed journalist, dead at 91

The Hill: Tennessee Republican calls for Mamdani to be denaturalized, deported

AP News: Trump’s budget bill could complicate 2026 tax filing season after IRS cuts, watchdog warns

AP News: Justices side with Texas death row inmate seeking DNA testing to show he shouldn’t be executed

BBC: 'Our food doesn't even last the month' - Americans brace for Trump's welfare cuts

Washington Post: Supreme Court rules against Planned Parenthood in patient rights case

Washington Post: Sarah Huckabee Sanders writes: America can’t wait 10 years to regulate AI

BBC: Trump calls for end to Netanyahu corruption trial

The Atlantic: The U.S. Is Going Backwards on Vaccines, Very Fast

The Atlantic: Pro-Palestine Activists Fell for Iran’s Propaganda

The Atlantic: America’s Incarceration Rate Is About to Fall Off a Cliff

BBC: Ecuador's most wanted drug lord captured in 'underground bunker'

The Guardian: Chile targets fast fashion waste with landmark desert cleanup plan

The Guardian: Trump’s justice department sues entire bench of Maryland judges over order restricting deportations

The Guardian: BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news and TV coverage

The Guardian: Hundreds of weight loss and diabetes jab users report pancreas problems

The Guardian: Dollar falls to three-year low after report Trump may name next Fed chair early

The Guardian: Supreme court paves way for South Carolina and other states to defund Planned Parenthood

AP News: US economy shrank 0.5% between January and March, worse than 2 earlier estimates had revealed

Spokane Spokesman-Review: School Board rules Spanish teacher overstepped when he read aloud the ‘N-Word’ in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, does not reinstate teacher

Spokane Spokesman-Review: The surprising ways food packaging is exposing us to microplastics

AP News: Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

Huffington Post: 'Doesn’t Take An Einstein’: Jasmine Crockett Hits Trump With Sharp Melania Swipe

The Oregonian: Man drowns while fishing off Oregon coast

OPB: Oregon bill making it easier to forcibly treat – and release – people with mental illness moves forward

OPB: Judge orders Trump administration to resume distributing money for EV chargers

The Oregonian: Amazon opens $500 million Oregon warehouse that stocks 40 million products: Look inside

The Oregonian: $45 million state grant inflames tribal tensions at Willamette Falls

Courthouse News Service: In dissent, Justice Jackson steals the spotlight

KTLA: Search underway for missing Southern California hiker

KTLA: Street food vendor clings to tree as immigration agents detain her in Ladera Heights

Sacramento Bee: Formerly incarcerated Californians find success with help of re-entry programs

Sacramento Bee: Trump administration: California must strip trans athletes of awards

Courthouse News Service: Texas governor signs bill critics call modern-day ‘alien land law’

Courthouse News Service: California nonprofit revises plan for controversial wood pellet project