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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024

Washington Post: Australia is still logging the parks meant to become a koala reserve

NY Times : This Elephant Uses a Hose to Give Herself a Shower Every Day

NY Times : How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’

the Atlantic: AI: The Death of Search

Reuters: Judge to decide whether Trump's hush money conviction can stand

Smithsonian Magazine: When White Supremacists Staged the Only Successful Coup in U.S. History

Smithsonian Magazine: How the Berlin Wall Became a 100-Mile Bike and Pedestrian Trail

KOMO : 10 people stabbed in Seattle's CID within 37 hours, man in custody

Seattle Times: Teens flee police, then crash, killing 3 homeless people in Everett

Courthouse News Service: Judge says Wildlife Services can kill Montana grizzlies but orders further analysis

LA Times: 2 weeks after they inherited a home, the Mountain fire wiped away their fresh start

LA Times: San Francisco man arrested in connection with shooting incidents near UC Berkeley

Sacramento Bee: Medicare changes are next for Americans in retirement

Sacramento Bee: ‘We’re still here’: Sacramento embraces inaugural Native American Parade in heart of downtown

The Guardian: Outrage against Canada’s Marineland theme park after fifth beluga dies

The Guardian: Moscow targeted as Ukraine and Russia trade large drone attacks

The Guardian: Co-founders of militia group convicted of attempting to murder federal agents

LA Times: Emissions from private jets are skyrocketing. Monitoring them is about to get much harder

LA Times: Staggering devastation as fire levels Ventura County neighborhoods, destroying over 130 structures

KTLA: California city sounding the alarm over a different, nastier kind of FOG

KTLA: Bomb threats have forced 2 Southern California ballot processing centers to evacuate

Marin Independent Journal: Marin supervisors back Richmond-San Rafael Bridge bike-lane experiment

KRCR: Jenny O'Connell-Nowain and Shasta Supervisor speak out about chaotic meeting, arrest

KRCR: Redding police seize 800 pounds of marijuana, arrest two on I-5 during traffic stop

KPIX: Bird flu raising concerns for Petaluma dairy farmers

KPIX: Vote count so far shows support for closure of Upper Great Highway in San Francisco

KPIX: Many head to Bay Area Smash Room to relieve post-election feelings

East Bay Times: Mathews: Musk’s battle with California Coastal Commission shows its effectiveness

The Hill: South Korea accuses North of disrupting plane, vessel GPS signals

The Hill: Gallego defeats Kari Lake in Arizona Senate race

The Hill: Who will lead energy, environment agencies under Trump?

KRON: Over 8K pot plants seized, $4M in fines issued in Fairfield bust

East Bay Times: California gas prices could rise with toughened climate regulations

East Bay Times: Opinion: New Oakland secondhand-smoke law should apply to marijuana, too

AP News: California farmers enjoy pistachio boom, with much of it headed to China

AP News: Trump has vowed to kill US offshore wind projects. Will he succeed?

SF Gate: Yosemite National Park wants you to complain about its most popular hiking trail

Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024

Washington Post: Trump’s tax ideas could affect homeowners, older adults and middle class

CBS News : Politics Judge declares Biden immigration program for spouses of U.S. citizens illegal

The Conversation: Microplastics promote cloud formation, with likely effects on weather and climate

The Conversation: Only 5.3% of welders in the US are women. After years as a writing professor, I became one − here’s what I learned

East Idaho News: Off-brand Ozempic associated with at least 10 deaths, Novo Nordisk CEO warns

SF Gate: Calif. search team rescues 'exhausted and ill-prepared' Mount Whitney hikers

Action News Now: Shasta County votes still being tallied, election results not final yet

Action News Now: 25 million people in California face ‘life-threatening’ fire warning

KCRA: Hawaii Burning Man-style festival to proceed despite cease-and-desist

KCRA: Experts weigh in after several California counties turn red for Trump in 2024 election

Las Vegas Sun: GOP picks up more key House seats while Democrats insist they still have a path to a majority

My Northwest: Washington hit with steep hike in whooping cough cases

NPR: Trump’s win could accelerate the privatization of Medicare