Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025
The Hill: John Bolton denounces Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin peace talks
The Guardian: ‘No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan
Courthouse News Service: Brazil’s Lula backs oil exploration in the Amazon ahead of hosting UN climate talks
KRCR: Joann Fabrics stores in Redding, Chico and Eureka face closure amid bankruptcy
KRCR: Healthcare workers picket across Northern California including Providence St. Joseph
BBC: Unofficial TikTok downloads surge in the US
BBC: Fact-checking Elon Musk's claims in the Oval Office
Courthouse News Service: Trump Justice Department sues New York state over DMV policies for immigrants
Courthouse News Service: Trump taps Wyoming wildlife foe to head Fish and Wildlife Service
BBC: Grenade attack in French bar injures 12
BBC: Hundreds of foreigners freed from Myanmar's scam centres
BBC: Driver in suspected car ramming attack in Munich was Afghan asylum seeker, officials say
LA Times: Cal Fire begins releasing new state-mandated maps showing highest fire hazard areas
LA Times: UCLA suspends Students for Justice in Palestine after vandalism at UC regent’s home
LA Times: Trump targets paper straw purchases by federal government — and won’t stop there
AP News: At least 28 are hurt as a driver plows into a demonstration in Germany
East Bay Times: US inflation worsened last month with prices for groceries and gasoline heading higher
East Bay Times: US Department of Education takes aim at CIF over transgender athlete policy
East Bay Times: Flu deaths surpass COVID deaths in California for the first time since the start of the pandemic
KTLA: Evacuation orders, warnings planned for burn zones as storm soaks Southern California
Reuters: Trump says he backs Ukraine, but early concessions to Russia spark concerns
KRON: Musk calls for government to ‘delete entire agencies’
KRON: U.S. Navy fighter jet crashes near Shelter Island while attempting to land
KRON: Another Bay Area Safeway closing due to safety concerns
Press Democrat: ‘The art of dying’: Napa ultramarathoner with terminal cancer diagnosis training for Ironman triathlon
Press Democrat: Sonoma woman loses $11,000 in ATM scam prompting warning from police
Press Democrat: Historic pact reached on future Eel River water flows into Russian River
SF Gate: Stars turn out for revolutionary folk legend in San Francisco
SF Gate: Tahoe snowboarder buried alive, resort accused of wrongdoing
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025
NY Times : National parks can be dangerous. So Trump made a hiring freeze loophole.
Politico: Associated Press blocked from Oval Office for not using ‘Gulf of America’
NY Times : California’s High-Risk Insurer Gets $1 Billion Bailout After L.A. Fires
PBS News: California faces insurance crisis as homeowners lose coverage amid extreme weather
NPR: Judge grants top whistleblower advocate reprieve after he sued Trump over firing
NPR: Burglary of Joe Burrow's home is linked to a pattern of 'crime tourism,' FBI says
The Oregonian: Household cats with bird flu could pose a risk to public health
Courthouse News Service: Google must face claims of AI-powered wiretapping, California judge rules
East Bay Times: Rivian opens sales of plug-in vans once exclusive to Amazon
The Oregonian: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, key banking regulator, is latest federal agency ordered to stop work
AP News: Ukraine’s rare earth elements could help keep US military aid flowing
Courthouse News Service: Judge blocks Trump’s $4 billion cuts to biomedical research after lawsuit from 22 states
KRCR: Redding residents voice concerns over planned Peaks Subdivision
KRCR: 1 dead as jet owned by Mötley Crüe frontman veers off runway at Arizona airport
KCRA: 'You cannot do this alone': Man runs seven marathons in seven days across seven continents
KCRA: Teenage sex-trafficking victim jumps from moving vehicle to flee captor in San Joaquin County
AP News: FEMA says it’s halting payments for migrant housing in New York after Musk blasts money for hotels
AP News: Top Justice Department official orders prosecutors to drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams
AP News: JD Vance rails against ‘excessive’ AI regulation in a rebuke to Europe at the Paris AI summit
CNN: Judge halts Trump administration cuts to public health research in some states
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