Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
The New Yorker: A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice
AP News: Health insurers rally after government lays out better-than-expected Medicare Advantage raise
The Guardian: Ice frees mother and three kids after protests in US ‘border czar’s’ home town
The Atlantic: Trade Will Move On Without the United States
StatNews: CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration
StatNews: HIV prevention was making great strides. Then Trump’s budget axe fell
Smithsonian Magazine: The Long, Strange History of Nitrous Oxide, a Popular Drug Users Have Been Inhaling for Hundreds of Years
The Atlantic: What Makes Modern Measles Outbreaks Different
The Atlantic: Here Are the Places Where the Recession Has Already Begun
Reuters: Trump attacked Australian beef, but industry looks like tariff winner
Washington Post: Vance’s whopper on alleged Social Security fraud
Reuters: Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
The Guardian: Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
The Guardian: ‘No guidance and no leadership’: chaos and confusion at CDC after mass firings
Reuters: China tariff escalation a big mistake, US Treasury Secretary says
Smithsonian Magazine: Discover the Renaissance Origins and Mystical Evolution of Tarot Cards
BBC: Experts dispute claim dire wolf brought back from extinction
BBC: Menendez brothers feel 'hope' for parole after decades in jail
The Guardian: Amid all the warnings about a ‘dementia tsunami’, here are the things you should know
The Hill: Democrats question VA secretary on return-to-office ‘disruptions’
NPR: How to avoid harmful chemicals in skin care and beauty products
NPR: Health secretary RFK Jr. endorses the MMR vaccine — stoking fury among his supporters
BBC: Beijing calls Vance 'ignorant' over 'Chinese peasants' remark
The Guardian: Couple who ran Swedish eco-retreat fled leaving behind barrels of human waste
The Hill: Trump is neutering the Labor Department
Politico: Trump, Hegseth promise record $1 trillion Pentagon budget
Courthouse News Service: California-based strawberry grower faces sour ruling in patent dispute
Courthouse News Service: EPA defends its toxic water guidelines allowing higher levels of chemicals
Courthouse News Service: Supreme Court empowers Trump to continue deportations to El Salvador prison
BBC: Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills more than a dozen
The Guardian: ‘They’re killing you’: US poultry workers fear faster lines will lead to more injury
The Oregonian: Small plane skids off runway and into bay while landing in southern Oregon
The Hill: Trump planning military parade through DC for 79th birthday
The Oregonian: Record number of steelhead return to this Oregon river
KQED: Meet the Power Plant Tucked into Garages and Basements
KQED: Past Lives Fade at This San Francisco Tattoo Removal Clinic
OPB: Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under wartime law, but only after judges' review
OPB: Jail health care provider to pay $25 million to Washington man after leg amputation
The Oregonian: 100s rally for Oregon ‘Climate Superfund’ bill to make Oregon polluters pay for extreme weather damages
The Oregonian: Oregon-based drug courier caught with ‘massive’ stash of meth sentenced to nearly 5 years
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Boat runs ashore at Scott Creek Beach
AP News: Clem Burke, multifaceted drummer of iconic rock group Blondie, has died
AP News: Trump’s DHS revokes legal status for migrants who entered the US on Biden-era CBP One app
Politico: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash
KRCR: Elderly man mistakes hunter for turkey at Fremont Weir, charged with murder
AP News: PHOTOS: Swollen rivers flood towns in the US South and Midwest
The Hill: Farm-state Republicans rocked by tariffs fear Trump lacks exit strategy
East Bay Times: Youth soccer coach charged in killing of missing California middle school student