Homepage > Elsewhere

Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

LA Times: Contamination fears drive push to remake state cannabis agency

LA Times: DOGE firings provoke heated confrontations, shouts of ‘Nazi,’ at Republican town halls

AP News: Stocks fall again on Wall Street as companies react to Trump’s tariffs

BBC: US and European shares fall further as Trump tariffs prompt retaliation

BBC: Trump to deliver 'big' televised speech to US Congress

KRON: Canadian premier says he will cut off electricity exports to US ‘with a smile on my face’

KRON: Muslim-owned Berkeley business vandalized, community rallies behind it

The Guardian: Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber

The Guardian: Two leaders of group suspected of smuggling 20,000 immigrants arrested in LA

SF Gate: Mountain lion evades double electric fence, kills pets at Mendocino homestead

The Guardian: California charges 30 officers over ‘gladiator fights’ at juvenile facility

SF Chronicle: What led to this UC’s ‘remarkable’ 45% jump in applications? One last-minute maneuver

SF Chronicle: Here’s how many Bay Area homeowners are using Prop 19 to pay lower property taxes

East Bay Times: Four people shot outside restaurant in Hayward

The Guardian: Major US retailers warn Americans will pay more because of Trump’s trade war with top partners, report says – live

The Guardian: Federal layoffs hit the deep-red, rural US west: ‘Our public lands are under threat’

Sunday, March 2, 2025

The Hill: Trump announces US crypto reserve

KTLA: Elvira says ‘Elon sux,’ donates Tesla to NPR

KTLA: Beloved L.A. staple Original Pantry Cafe closes after 100 years

KOMO : Washington woman, missing for nearly a year, found dead inside crashed car in Oregon

KOMO : Thieves steal $100k in guitars from Seattle rental business; police recover stolen truck

KATU: Body found on top of shopping carts at Troutdale Home Depot prompts investigation

KATU: Search continues for missing 2-year-old in Lincoln County, OR

The Guardian: Zelensky says he is ready to sign minerals deal and relations with US will continue – video

The Guardian: Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats

NY Times : Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia

NY Times : Homeland Security Officials Push I.R.S. for 700,000 Immigrants’ Addresses

NBC News: 'They've radicalized me': Federal workers fight back as Trump dismantles their work

NBC: South Carolina governor declares state of emergency as raging wildfires prompt mass evacuations

The Hill: Johnson says Putin ‘not to be trusted,’ ‘dangerous’

AP News: Republicans once maligned Medicaid. Now some see a program too big to touch

Consumer Reports: Dangerous Chemicals Were Detected in 100% of the Braiding Hair We Tested

Smithsonian Magazine: Scientists Identify a Gene Linked to Spoken Language, and It Makes Lab Mice Squeak Differently

Smithsonian Magazine: Chinook Salmon Are Swimming in This California River for the First Time in More Than 80 Years

NY Times : How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy

Washington Post: Companies start landing on the moon as space agencies foot the bill

Washington Post: Opinion: What we learned about politics by talking about … wolves

KQED: Trump’s Mass Layoffs at NOAA Cut Into the Bay Area Weather Service

KQED: ‘Look, There’s Nowhere Else to Go’: Inside California’s Crackdown on Homeless Camps

NPR: USDA unveils a $1 billion plan to address the egg crisis

The Guardian: ‘It’s packed with dealers. Look around you’: life amid the cocaine cartels of the French Riviera

The Guardian: Read the signs of Trump’s federal firings: AI is coming for private sector jobs too

The Guardian: ‘They worship death’: Trump ‘border czar’ reveals extremist views in interview

Reuters: US firm Firefly scores its first moon landing with Blue Ghost spacecraft

Reuters: US judge declares Trump's firing of watchdog agency head illegal

The Guardian: ‘America is going down’: China can capitalise on damage caused by Trump, former PLA colonel says

The Guardian: Europe faces ‘once in a generation’ moment for its security, Starmer says – live

The Atlantic: The Putinization of America

The Atlantic: A New Kind of State Media: Donald Trump is staffing his administration with podcast bros.

The Atlantic: Is DOGE Sure It Wants to Fire These People?