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Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024

East Bay Times: Accomplished, thrill-seeking surfers test themselves as massive swell blasts Central Coast

SF Gate: 'Truly remarkable': A native California species is booming off the coast of San Francisco

East Bay Times: Flu surges in US as vaccinations lag, and here’s where COVID, RSV infections are climbing

KTVU: Man dies after waves trap him under debris in Watsonville

KTVU: 3 fall into ocean after Santa Cruz Wharf partially collapses, floats away

KPIX: 1 dead, 2 missing as Northern California coastline hit by large waves

Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024

AP News: Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole

AP News: 174 Colorado skiers and snowboarders rescued after a lift cracks

BBC: A dam ignited rare Tibetan protests. They ended in beatings and arrests, BBC finds

San Jose Mercury News: Addicts trafficked cross country to California by ‘army of fraudsters,’ new lawsuit alleges

Reuters: California will put secession back on the map

Reuters: A fentanyl antidote is saving lives. But it isn’t ending the fentanyl crisis

Smithsonian Magazine: The Ten Most Significant Science Stories of 2024

The Atlantic: The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t

The Atlantic: A Mysterious Health Wave Is Breaking Out Across the U.S.

NY Times : Letter Calling for Tracking People of Color Circulates in an Oregon County

NY Times : Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half

NY Times : Antibiotics Can Mess With Your Gut. These Foods Can Help.

NY Times : Popular Arthritis Drug for Dogs May Have Severe Side Effects, F.D.A. Says

AP News: Colorado: 11 people, including Venezuelan gang members, facing potential charges in abduction, police say

AP News: Hopi Tribe is closer to acquiring more land in Arizona after decades of delay

CBS News : An owl came down a family's chimney and perched on their Christmas tree: See the video

CNN: Pharmacy benefit manager reform fails to make the cut in federal funding package

BBC: Boy, 8, saves classmate with Heimlich maneuver

Washington Post: The Appalachian couple hunting for wild American truffles

Washington Post: Middle-schooler finds goose poop that has cancer-fighting compound

Washington Post: More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures

OPB: Oregon sues manufactures it says built uninhabitable homes for Almeda Fire survivors

Courthouse News Service: Ninth Circuit rejects Oregon homeowner’s challenge to canal project

NPR: The FDA restricts a psychoactive mushroom used in some edibles

NPR: College students get emotional about climate change. Some are finding help in class

Politico: Biden could foil Trump’s plans to resume federal executions

NBC News: Faith-based cost-sharing seemed like an alternative to health insurance, until the childbirth bills arrived

AP News: The water was their livelihood. Now Thailand’s sea nomads work to preserve a vanishing way of life

AP News: Pickup truck driver killed by police after driving through Texas mall and injuring 5

KTLA: 1 dead after mushroom poisoning in Utah, ‘first confirmed case ever in the state’

Financial Times: Donald Trump’s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO ‘on day one’

Courthouse News Service: Feds accuse major banks of allowing Zelle fraud

The Guardian: Oil and gas firms operating in Colorado falsified environmental impact reports

The Guardian: ‘At 98, I wouldn’t be so sharp without puzzles’: do crosswords and quizzes really boost your brain power?

Courthouse News Service: In the Pacific Northwest, killing sea lions is a necessity

KPTV: 8-year-old boy saves kitten by trading his skateboard to kids who were harming the animal

KPTV: Family hospitalized after Vancouver food truck explosion

KOIN: Large koi fish dumped in McKenzie River near Eugene

The Guardian: ‘A serious disease’: Congress weighs federal gambling crackdown amid growing concerns

The Guardian: Photographs reveal first glimpse of uncontacted Amazon community

The Guardian: US shoots down two of its own navy pilots over Red Sea in ‘apparent friendly fire’ incident

LA Times: California inmate recruited ‘wives’ to spread fentanyl across Alaska, feds say

KTLA: Southern California woman survives attack, attempted abduction

KTLA: 4 suspects rear-end, kidnap man and burglarize his home in Riverside County