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Sunday, March 2, 2025

Courthouse News Service: DoorDash to pay $16.75 million over stolen tips from delivery drivers

Courthouse News Service: Iowa governor signs bill removing civil rights of transgender Iowans

AP News: The world’s most famous sled dog race is longer than ever. Here’s a look at Iditarod, by the numbers

AP News: Israel cuts off Gaza aid to pressure Hamas to accept new ceasefire proposal

Courthouse News Service: Lawmakers and advocates voice concern over federal funding cuts’ impact on the Chesapeake Bay

BBC: Pro-Ukraine protests across US after Trump-Zelensky clash

The Oregonian: Oregon coast fire district in turmoil after chief promises ‘open war’ on board members

The Oregonian: Town hall draws more than 1,000 Oregonians amid rising concerns about Trump administration

OPB: NOAA firings in Seattle include orca-saving employee of the year

OPB: Tillamook County housing projects in limbo following cuts to federal funding

LA Times: Newsom suspends landmark environmental laws to speed up wildfire prevention efforts

LA Times: ‘Like someone put a blanket over the ocean’: Kelp could be among fires’ casualties

SF Chronicle: California drug bust: 16,500 fentanyl pills, 72 pounds of meth

SF Chronicle: Anti-DOGE protests at Tesla stores target Elon Musk's bottom line

KTLA: Driver dumped 150 of gallons of contaminated waste into local creek, investigators say

KTLA: ICE raids at least 3 homes, arrests one mother in South Los Angeles

KTLA: Palisades homes ‘too toxic’ to clear in phase 1, Army Corps to help in phase 2

East Bay Times: UC health and research workers in two unions stage statewide strike

KRCR: Cuts at Coleman National Fish Hatchery raise concerns for salmon population

KRCR: Sierra Pacific receives $75M from US Forest Service to combat wildfires

KRCR: Redding's new nighttime farmers market aiming to support community, small businesses

KRON: Ukiah man dies after arrest by sheriff’s deputies

SF Gate: Meth, abalone and a turtle: NorCal traffic stop takes a weird turn

East Bay Times: Santa Cruz coast: Hazardous waves prompt water rescues, Capitola beach closure

Marin Independent Journal: Where are federal jobs affected by DOGE cuts? A look at congressional districts across the US

Marin Independent Journal: Three wet winters in a row for the first time in 25 years? Sierra Nevada snowpack 85% of normal, with more storms forecast

SF Gate: Yosemite protesters did a genius thing with the park's webcams

SF Gate: Olympic National Park's Hoh Rain Forest needs federal funds to reopen. No one knows when it will.

SF Gate: Bay Area daycare raided in large guns and drugs operation

Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025

AP News: A Texas child who was not vaccinated has died of measles, a first for the US in a decade

AP News: Transgender troops are now being identified for removal under Pentagon orders

AP News: Musk has inside track to take over contract to fix air traffic communications system

Washington Post: She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this

The Atlantic: It’s Weird That Eggs Were Ever Cheap

KQED: Stanford Freezes Staff Hiring as it Braces for Possible Federal Funding Cuts

NPR: Pentagon directs removal of trans service members from military

NPR: Andrew Tate, facing rape and trafficking charges in Romania, is back in the U.S.

Politico: 23 Dem AGs think they’ve cracked the code to fighting Trump

Politico: GOP tax chief voiced ‘huge concern’ over Senate tax plan at White House meeting

Politico: Trump appears open to using private forces to help deport millions of undocumented immigrants

Politico: Judge orders Trump administration officials to give sworn testimony on DOGE

Politico: New York City health clinic now asking for proof of citizenship, citing Trump

Smithsonian Magazine: Can Electro-Agriculture Revolutionize the Way We Grow Food?

Smithsonian Magazine: SpaceX Rocket Stage Burns Up Over Europe and Crashes in Poland, While Blue Origin Debris Washes Ashore in the Bahamas

Smithsonian Magazine: Rare Footage Shows Baby Polar Bears Emerging From Their Den in the Arctic

The Guardian: Ice contractor plans for surveillance boom under Trump migrant crackdown

LA Times: Karuk Tribe enters first-of-its-kind agreement with the state to practice cultural burns

LA Times: Kern County immigration raid offers glimpse into new reality for California farmworkers

LA Times: Death of Gene Hackman, wife, dog deemed ‘suspicious’

OPB: Legislators push to prohibit net pen aquaculture in Oregon