Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Team USA — including 2 from Northwest — powers to Olympic gold in women’s gymnastics
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Interior Dept. concludes 3-year probe of Indian boarding schools
Oregon Public Broadcasting: More than 1 million acres burned across Oregon, firefighters making some progress
Washington Post: Suicide rates in children have continued to climb across 15 years, study finds
Washington Post: More than 900 Native American children died at U.S. boarding schools
Washington Post: What to do if you find mold in your apartment
Washington Post: A surprising byproduct of wildfires: Contaminated drinking water
Washington Post: How to make all your food waste disappear
NY Times : How Did the Park Fire Get So Big, So Fast?
Courthouse News Service: California insurance commissioner unveils changes to state’s ‘insurer of last resort’
AP News: Utility cuts natural gas service to landslide-stricken Southern California neighborhood
AP News: Heavy rain in northern Vermont leads to washed out roads and rescues
AP News: California man saves home from wildfires after losing insurance coverage
AP News: Trump says he ‘probably’ will debate Harris but can ‘make a case for not.’ Her team says he’s scared
Reuters: Republicans call Harris a failed border czar. The truth is more complicated.
LA Times: COVID surging in California, nears two-year summer high. ‘Almost everybody has it’
NY Times : Riots at Israeli Army Bases Show Growing Divisions Over War in Gaza
Smithsonian Magazine: Watch 100,000 Dominoes Topple to the Ground in a Dazzling Eight-Minute Display
Smithsonian Magazine: Alzheimer’s Blood Test Outperforms Standard Diagnostics in New Study
NPR: 2 children killed and others injured in stabbing rampage at a dance class in England
NPR: Inflation is pinching Americans — but they are still splurging on their pets
The Guardian: Missing man’s yell brings rescuers about to end two-week Kentucky forest search
The Oregonian: Affordable housing boom surges $133M into Oregon college town
The Oregonian: This Pacific Northwest campground is one of TIME’s World’s Greatest Places
OPB: Ozempic's biggest side effect: Turning Denmark into a 'pharmastate'?
LA Times: Project 2025 plan calls for demolition of NOAA and National Weather Service
LA Times: Flora fire started by man who drove truck without a front tire for miles, Cal Fire says
East Bay Times: Undocumented immigrants in US pay nearly $100 billion in taxes
The Guardian: Costly climate ‘solutions’ look like more pollution in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’
The Guardian: More than 500 Mexicans flee to Guatemala to escape cartel violence in Chiapas
The Guardian: ‘Conditions were perfect’: how the breathtaking image of Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina was taken
The Guardian: Global methane emissions rising at fastest rate in decades, scientists warn
LA Times: Judge orders UCLA, Jewish students to draft plan for equal campus access in wake of protests
KRON: Fish added to growing list of endangered species in SF Bay Estuary
KRCR: Poachers leave four elk dead in Redwood National Park, officials seek answers
KRCR: Teen arrested on murder charges after deadly attack in Redding
KRCR: Court denies bail as Park Fire arson suspect awaits trial
SF Gate: People are flying across the world to illegally climb California's redwoods
Thursday, July 25, 2024
SF Chronicle: Park Fire near Chico explodes to 124,000 acres; man arrested on suspicion of arson
KOIN: Wildfires destroy at least 29 homes in Oregon, Washington
NPR: California's newest state park is like a time machine
NPR: Octopus farming in the U.S. would be banned under a new bill in Congress
Texas Monthly: Inside the Texas Crime Lab That’s Cracked Hundreds of Cold Cases
Texas Monthly: Power-Thirsty Bitcoin Miners Are Flooding the Energy Center of Texas
CBS News : String of fires at Marina Del Rey apartment complex concern residents, authorities are investigating
CBS News : Bay Area leaders, homeless advocates react to Newsom order to clear encampments
BBC: Paris set for its first Olympics in 100 years
BBC: Video: Vehicle drives through intense wildfire in Northern California
Action News: The search continues for two men last seen in Glenn County
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