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Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024

The Guardian: Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island, one of world’s most active volcanoes, erupts

The Guardian: ChatGPT search tool vulnerable to manipulation and deception, tests show

The Oregonian: Humans arrived in Americas earlier than previously thought, co-existed with mastodons, researchers believe

KOIN: Oregon State Police arrest hunters for allegedly using thermal imaging for poaching

KOIN: Interstate 5 wildlife crossing gets greenlight with $33M federal grant

Oregon Public Broadcasting: 'Landmark' Owyhee protection bill passes U.S. Senate

KRCR: Arcata roundabout sparks community debate, alleged mistreatment of construction workers

KRCR: Route 36 closed west of Grizzly Creek due to active slide, reopening time unknown

SF Gate: California rescue teams say iPhone's advanced features keep saving lives

KTLA: ‘It’s a felony?’ Shoplifting suspects discuss new California law in back of patrol car

LA Times: A kayak flips over during a duck-hunting trip and a boy dives in to save his brother. Both are missing

LA Times: One man dead and another missing as California reels from storm’s crushing waves

Sacramento Bee: SMUD’s plan for 500,000 Sacramento County solar panels is taking heat from environmentalists

East Bay Times: Accomplished, thrill-seeking surfers test themselves as massive swell blasts Central Coast

SF Gate: 'Truly remarkable': A native California species is booming off the coast of San Francisco

East Bay Times: Flu surges in US as vaccinations lag, and here’s where COVID, RSV infections are climbing

KTVU: Man dies after waves trap him under debris in Watsonville

KTVU: 3 fall into ocean after Santa Cruz Wharf partially collapses, floats away

KPIX: 1 dead, 2 missing as Northern California coastline hit by large waves

Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024

AP News: Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole

AP News: 174 Colorado skiers and snowboarders rescued after a lift cracks

BBC: A dam ignited rare Tibetan protests. They ended in beatings and arrests, BBC finds

San Jose Mercury News: Addicts trafficked cross country to California by ‘army of fraudsters,’ new lawsuit alleges

Reuters: California will put secession back on the map

Reuters: A fentanyl antidote is saving lives. But it isn’t ending the fentanyl crisis

Smithsonian Magazine: The Ten Most Significant Science Stories of 2024

The Atlantic: The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t

The Atlantic: A Mysterious Health Wave Is Breaking Out Across the U.S.

NY Times : Letter Calling for Tracking People of Color Circulates in an Oregon County

NY Times : Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half

NY Times : Antibiotics Can Mess With Your Gut. These Foods Can Help.

NY Times : Popular Arthritis Drug for Dogs May Have Severe Side Effects, F.D.A. Says

AP News: Colorado: 11 people, including Venezuelan gang members, facing potential charges in abduction, police say

AP News: Hopi Tribe is closer to acquiring more land in Arizona after decades of delay

CBS News : An owl came down a family's chimney and perched on their Christmas tree: See the video

CNN: Pharmacy benefit manager reform fails to make the cut in federal funding package

BBC: Boy, 8, saves classmate with Heimlich maneuver

Washington Post: The Appalachian couple hunting for wild American truffles

Washington Post: Middle-schooler finds goose poop that has cancer-fighting compound

Washington Post: More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures

OPB: Oregon sues manufactures it says built uninhabitable homes for Almeda Fire survivors

Courthouse News Service: Ninth Circuit rejects Oregon homeowner’s challenge to canal project

NPR: The FDA restricts a psychoactive mushroom used in some edibles

NPR: College students get emotional about climate change. Some are finding help in class

Politico: Biden could foil Trump’s plans to resume federal executions

NBC News: Faith-based cost-sharing seemed like an alternative to health insurance, until the childbirth bills arrived

AP News: The water was their livelihood. Now Thailand’s sea nomads work to preserve a vanishing way of life

AP News: Pickup truck driver killed by police after driving through Texas mall and injuring 5

KTLA: 1 dead after mushroom poisoning in Utah, ‘first confirmed case ever in the state’

Financial Times: Donald Trump’s transition team seeks to pull US out of WHO ‘on day one’