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Thursday, March 13, 2025

AP News: Meta to start testing crowd-sourced fact-checking, based on X example, next week

AP News: Federal student loan site down Wednesday, a day after layoffs gutted Education Department

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

SF Chronicle: Trump’s antisemitism crackdown creates concern in Bay Area Jewish community

The Hill: Trump proposes cutting ACA enrollment period, ending ‘Dreamer’ coverage

KTLA: Routine knee surgery ends in tragic loss of leg for Southern California man

KTLA: Time is running out for thousands to claim $1 billion in 2021 tax refunds

The Guardian: Ukraine agrees to 30-day ceasefire as US prepares to lift military aid restrictions

The Guardian: Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation

The Guardian: Controlled-release fertilizers can spread microplastics on US cropland – study

The Guardian: Sea lions sickened as toxic algae threatens California’s marine mammals

Study Finds: America is becoming a nation of homebodies

Study Finds: How whales fuel ocean ecosystems with their pee, placentas, and carcasses

The Guardian: The ninetysomethings who revolutionized how we think about strength training

The Guardian: Four charged in death of US boy, 5, ‘incinerated’ in hyperbaric chamber

The Guardian: Fears mount over Kash Patel’s use of FBI to persecute leftwing protest groups

The Atlantic: Death by firing squad has come back to America.

The Atlantic: Winners of the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition

The Atlantic: The FAA’s Troubles Are More Serious Than You Know

The Atlantic: DOGE’s Plans to Replace Humans With AI Are Already Under Way

NPR: RFK says most vaccine advisers have conflicts of interest. A report shows they don't

Washington Post: Aliens are real and there’s a cover-up, new documentary aims to prove

NPR: Canada's Hudson's Bay has survived 355 years. Now the store is in crisis

NPR: The government already knows a lot about you. DOGE is trying to access all of it

NPR: As Trump downplays economic fears, this data shows people feel differently

NPR: Trump buys a Tesla with Elon Musk in tow, at the White House

Washington Post: Trump administration slashes division in charge of 26,000 U.S. artworks

Huffington Post: USDA Cuts More Than $1 Billion Earmarked For Local Food In Schools, Food Banks

AP News: The US agency that monitors weather will cut another 1,000 jobs, AP sources say

NY Times : Kennedy Rattles Food Companies With Vow to Rid Food of Artificial Dyes

AP News: NTSB urges ban on some helicopter flights at Washington airport where 67 people died

AP News: Philippine ex-leader Duterte is being flown to The Hague to face charges of crimes against humanity

AP News: Wall Street’s manic day sends it careening from a small gain to 10% below its record and back again

Politico: US to reinstate aid to Ukraine after Saudi cease-fire talks

NY Times : U.S. Agrees to Resume Military Assistance to Ukraine

The Oregonian: Why Ukrainian war veteran amputees are coming to an Oregon ski resort

Politico: Want to breathe Europe’s cleanest air? Move to Estonia.

Politico: Belgian satirist who wanted to ‘ram’ knife down Jews’ throats not guilty of antisemitism

Smithsonian Magazine: Extreme Heat Could Make Older Adults Age Faster by Altering Their DNA, Study Finds

Politico: Ukraine launches ‘massive’ drone strike on Moscow ahead of US peace talks

Politico: North Sea oil tanker fire still raging as UK says ‘no evidence’ of foul play

BBC: How Britain's former top banker became Canada's next prime minister

BBC: The ultramarathon business

The Hill: Senate Democrats leery of blocking GOP bill fear shutdown politics have changed

Reuters: Global stocks selloff pauses as investors catch their breath

The Hill: Trump’s approval dips amid concerns over economy: Poll

The Hill: Wall Street Journal warns there could be a coming ‘Trump recession’

The Hill: Lara Trump: Americans should be ‘kissing the feet of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’

Reuters: US and Ukraine hold talks in Saudi Arabia after major drone attack on Russia

Reuters: Trump says he will double tariffs on Canada metals to 50%

CBS San Diego: City of San Diego hikes tax rate for cannabis businesses