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Tuesday, Oct. 7

KTLA: Burbank airport without air-traffic controllers for hours amid staffing shortage

San Joaquin Valley Sun: Calif. Insurance Commissioner faces probe over pricey international trips on taxpayer’s dime

KTLA: California officials urge Gov. Newsom to sign copper wire theft bill

KTLA: $500,000 in stolen Nike merchandise seized from Santa Monica warehouse

KTLA: California train theft suspects nabbed with $375K in stolen goods: SBSD

AP News: EF5 tornado that killed 3 in North Dakota was the nation’s first in 12 years

CBS News : California's redistricting plan sparks fierce debate in 2026 governor's race

CBS News Sacramento: Federal funding cut from massive Lodi clean energy project

KCRA: Bystander recounts jumping in to help after medical helicopter crashes on Highway 50 in Sacramento

AP News: Motorists lift medical helicopter to rescue woman after crash injuring 3 on Sacramento highway

KRON: America saw ‘essentially no job growth’ last month, Moody’s warns

CBS News : Covered California enrollees could see health care costs rise without congressional action

KRON: CHP investigates medical helicopter crash causing traffic delays on Highway 50, injuries reported

CBS News : California records fifth West Nile virus death this year, victim identified as Roseville man

CBS News Bay Area: Bay Area community will have to use California FAIR plan as rate hike looms

CBS News Bay Area: Santa Rosa City Schools District faces possible state takeover due to fiscal crisis

KRON: Silicon Colosseum: A look inside San Francisco’s underground robot fight club

East Bay Times: All hail ‘Farmer Mike,’ the Bay Area’s preeminent pumpkin carver

East Bay Times: Palo Alto environmental group buys three farms for $7.8 million

East Bay Times: Seven arrested in smash-and-grab burglary at Sunvalley Shopping Center

East Bay Times: 31,000 nurses, hospital staff to strike against Kaiser

East Bay Times: Caltrans demolishes 50-year-old statue of Junipero Serra along Interstate 280

Marin Independent Journal: College of Marin gets $10M pledge for endowment fund

Lake County Record-Bee: Where jobs are scarce, over 1 million people could dodge Trump’s Medicaid work rules

San Jose Mercury News: California birth rate declines to historic low as women delay childbearing

San Jose Mercury News: Hearing officer finds cause to remove San Mateo County sheriff from office

SF Gate: 'Communities will not survive': Insurance nightmares could empty small California towns

SF Gate: Bay Area woman still missing nearly a week after disappearing on a 2-mile hike

SF Gate: After suicide attempt, South Lake Tahoe mayor admits to stealing church funds

SF Gate: Helicopter crash critically injures 3, shuts down Highway 50 in Sacramento

SF Gate: SF scientist, UC alum nabs Nobel Prize for immune system discoveries

Sunday, Oct. 5

Reuters: Exclusive: Trump administration eyes stake in company developing Greenland rare earths mine

Reuters: Hundreds of trekkers escape from blizzard-struck Everest in Tibet

Washington Post: Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans

AP News: At America’s national parks in the Trump era, the arc of history bends toward revisionism

The Atlantic: Taylor Swift’s Fairy Tale Is Over

The Atlantic: Pediatricians Can’t Bear These Costs

The Hill: Judge rules Biden administration went too far by indefinitely blocking new drilling off large portion of US coast

The Guardian: Judge halts Trump administration from detaining immigrant children after they turn 18

BBC: Nearly 500 arrested at Palestine Action protest in London

The Hill: Hegseth fires top Navy official

The Hill: Burchett chides colleagues over insider trading: ‘Crooked as a dog‘s leg’

The Guardian: Trump sets sights on liberal megadonor George Soros: ‘A chilling message to other donors’

OPB: Between safety and shelter: Oregon faces a complex abandoned boat problem

BBC: FBI agent suspended over refusal to 'perp walk' former director

OPB: Federal officers fire tear gas, make multiple arrests during protest outside Portland ICE facility

BBC: Trump authorises deployment of 300 National Guard troops to Chicago

BBC: The before and after images showing glaciers vanishing before our eyes

The Oregonian: Oregon has begun kicking some people off food stamps, cutting others’ monthly benefit

The Oregonian: Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest