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Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025

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

LA Times: California lawmakers propose banning sales from dog brokers in crackdown on puppy pipeline

LA Times: California’s Dungeness crab industry is feeling the pinch

LA Times: Strongest storm in a year bearing down on Southern California: What you need to know

Press Democrat: Sonoma County Fair horse racing unlikely this year, optional events to be considered

East Bay Times: Californians picked up in recent ICE raids include kids, volunteers

Marin Independent Journal: Flu deaths surpass COVID deaths in California for the first time since the start of the pandemic

KRON: Bay Area community could be death trap in major fire, study warns

KRON: Heavy rain making its way to Bay Area

KRON: About 3,000 encampment fires reported in San Jose in 2024, firefighters union says

SF Chronicle: ‘Ancient magical forest’ in Sonoma County to quadruple in size with new trails

SF Gate: Critically endangered steelhead population evacuated from creek ahead of toxic storm

SF Gate: California seeing one of its worst flu spikes this century, experts say

East Bay Times: Fremont’s homeless camp ban would be the strictest in the Bay Area. Will other cities follow?

East Bay Times: $24 million land deal creates 7-mile-long Bay Area corridor of protected redwood forests to the ocean

Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025

NY Times : ‘He’s Just Old and Homeless’: Sacramento Jail Death Leads to Accusations of Neglect

PBS News: Are seed oils toxic? The answer is complicated, according to research

NPR: Vance and Musk attack judicial authority as Trump’s agenda gets pushback from courts

Lookout Santa Cruz: Low stock numbers usher in a ‘devastating’ Dungeness crab season

Washington Post: Kristi Noem says she would recommend Trump ‘get rid’ of FEMA

NY Times : Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’

Science Alert: Bacteria Living Inside Your Mouth May Shape Your Dementia Risk

NY Times : How Could the National Weather Service Change Under Trump?

Science Alert: Several Psychiatric Disorders Share The Same Root Cause, Study Reveals

North Bay Biz Journal: Why Napa Valley College’s $114 million student housing complex is sitting nearly empty

North Bay Biz Journal: Owner, neighbors spar over lavender farm near Petaluma

NPR: Buffy Sainte-Marie stripped of prestigious Canadian honor

NPR: NIH announces new funding policy that rattles medical researchers

The Verge: ‘The biggest heist in American history’: DC is just waking up to Elon Musk’s takeover

Reuters: T-Mobile, Starlink start wide-scale testing of satellite-based connectivity

Politico: Trump fires National Archives chief

Smithsonian Magazine: Experts Are Alarmed by a Video of Workers Hammering Away at Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza

KQED: Even Where Weed Is Legal, Product Safety Isn't Guaranteed

KQED: Native Tribes Pushing for US Recognition Will Have a New Option — If Trump Keeps It