Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025
SF Gate: The California college campus that went all in on a giant blue pyramid
CBS News : Sacramento crews search underground tunnel system after man reportedly goes missing
CBS News Bay Area: PG&E undergrounds 1,000 miles of power lines along North Bay coast
SF Gate: 'Shameless': Utah senator revives crusade against public lands
East Bay Times: New California laws aim to ease ongoing home insurance crisis
Marin Independent Journal: Tribal traditional healing gets Medicaid reimbursement in 4 states
Marin Independent Journal: Why plastic bags will be gone from California grocery stores by the end of the year
SF Gate: Massive crowds turn out in Bay Area for 'No Kings' protests against President Donald Trump
SF Gate: Pesticide use in Del Norte's lily bulb farms polluting the Smith River
Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025
Politico: 'Rural folks just want to be left alone': Farmers push back on California redistricting
The Atlantic: Vance’s Telling Defense of a Racist Group Chat
The Guardian: Russian cyber-attacks against Nato states up by 25% in a year, analysis finds
MSNBC News: Opinion: The Trump-approved Qatari base in Idaho should raise major security concerns
Indian Country Today: Klamath River ecosystem is booming one year after dam removal
NPR: The price of a paycheck: one town's ICE dilemma
OPB: ‘Absolute madness’: Soccer fans are outraged over ticket prices for U.S. World Cup
OPB: 80-year-old grandmother becomes oldest woman to finish the Ironman World Championship
Oregon Public Broadcasting: After finding forever chemicals in its drinking water, this Eastern Oregon city stopped testing for them
The Hill: Insurers are mailing people unsolicited Cologuard tests, and it’s a terrible idea
The Hill: Trump makes plans for arch to be built near Lincoln Memorial as entry to DC
NY Times : How America Got Hooked on Ultraprocessed Food
NY Times : A Horrific Tale of the Slave Trade, Destined to Become a Classic
Washington Post: New English exam sidelines 6,000 truckers, testing U.S. supply chain
The Guardian: ‘Explicit and outrageous’: South Park is back with its most gratuitous episode since naked Trump
The Guardian: Exactly how safe is a gel manicure?
The Guardian: US airstrike near Venezuela may have killed two Trinidad citizens, police say
Reuters: Trump diverts anti-terror funds from Democratic strongholds to Republican states
The Atlantic: Don’t Blame the Democrats for Trump’s Revenge Tour
The Atlantic: America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
The Atlantic: Why So Many People Are Seduced by ChatGPT
BBC: How your hormones might be controlling your mind
Reuters: Nestle to cut 16,000 jobs as new CEO ignites 'turnaround fire'
Courthouse News Service: The $300 billion hostage: Europe's high-stakes gamble with Russia's frozen fortune
The Guardian: A surge of visitors to Yosemite overwhelms a skeleton crew: ‘This is exactly what we warned about’
The Guardian: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
Courthouse News Service: Microplastics invade the gut and change its chemistry
Courthouse News Service: Texas sues to stop group from settling in far west county
Courthouse News Service: Supreme Court looks to neuter key protection for minority voters
Courthouse News Service: Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas
Kaiser Health News: Trump’s Request To Remove Aluminum From Vaccines Is Risky, Experts Warn
The Guardian: JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’
The Guardian: Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds
The Guardian: 75% of Americans report soaring prices as Trump claims inflation ‘over’
The Oregonian: U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’
SF Gate: University of Southern California grad student charged with drugging and raping
BBC: Last surviving member of first team to scale Everest dies aged 92
The Oregonian: Orca-saving experiment launches off the San Juan Islands
CBS News : Attendees of Dreamforce in San Francisco comment on state of the city
CBS News : Is the cinnamon on your shelf safe? The FDA says these 16 brands contain elevated levels of lead.
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