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Sunday, March 24, 2024

SFGate: Legal battle ends over famed Diego Rivera mural in San Francisco

East Bay Times: Police drone aids in capture of East Bay kidnapping suspects, hostage release

SF Chronicle: Why is this Bay Area city ranked America’s happiest? Its mayor reveals the secrets

Thursday, March 21, 2024

The Oregonian: Portland’s Airbnb regulation problems: 5 things to know

Politico: Jared Kushner under fire for calling Gaza waterfront property ‘valuable’

KRON: SF city manager charged for stealing over $600K from their department

The Guardian: US calls for immediate Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal in draft UN resolution

The Guardian: Swedish landowner can keep meteorite after court battle with geologists

The Guardian: Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer

LA Times: What the DOJ’s antitrust suit against Apple means for everyone with an iPhone

SF Chronicle: California’s largest home insurer won’t renew 72,000 policies

East Bay Times: California home insurance meltdown worsens as State Farm sheds 72,000 policies

NPR: A New York man's pet alligator was seized after 30 years. Now, he wants Albert back

NPR: California voters pass Proposition 1 to tackle the state's homelessness crisis

NPR: Southwest Native Americans are hardest hit by syphilis surge

NBC News: A new type of bacteria was found in 50% of colon cancers. Many were aggressive cases.

NBC News: In a first, surgeons successfully transplant a pig kidney into a man

The Guardian: Hermès sued in California over claims it only sells Birkins to ‘worthy’ customers

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Washington Gov. Inslee signs fentanyl bill sending money to disproportionately affected tribes

Oregon Public Broadcasting: ‘Salmon Wars’ episode 3: The court battles

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Intel announces $36B Hillsboro investment following federal funding commitments

NY Times : Fossil Trove From 74,000 Years Ago Points to Remarkably Adaptive Humans

Yahoo News: Biden Suggests a Bigger Federal Role to Reduce Housing Costs

NY Times : A Mexican Drug Cartel’s New Target? Seniors and Their Timeshares

Fast Company: Reddit stock price today will be closely watched as NYSE trading begins in much-hyped IPO

The Guardian: Elon Musk’s Neuralink shows brain-chip patient playing online chess

Politico: National debate over transgender athletes comes to New York City

The Hill: Supreme Court unanimously rules against government in No Fly List case

AP News: 2 hospitalized, 27 safe after rowing club boats capsize off Connecticut

Politico: ‘Fear’ and farmland in the Montana Senate race

The Hill: California voters approve measure requiring counties to address mental health crisis

AP News: Homelessness, affordable-housing shortage spark resurgence of single-room ‘micro-apartments’

The Guardian: A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands

AP News: California wants to pay doctors more money to see Medicaid patients

The Guardian: I discovered why seemingly healthy amphibians were being wiped out

Action News Now: Woman arrested after leading officers on 120 mph chase in Redding

KRCR: Spike in popularity: Redding community rallies to expand sand volleyball's footprint

BBC: How these Canadian cows are burping less methane

The Guardian: Two men swapped at birth – one Indigenous, one white – finally get apology

The Guardian: Comic-themed bibs contaminated with harmful PFAS, California lawsuit alleges

BBC: Reddit IPO: Share sale values social media firm at $6.4bn

BBC: India in undersea race to mine world’s battery metal

Courthouse News Service: Wolf trapping blocked in much of Idaho to protect threatened grizzlies

The Guardian: Donald Trump to make $3bn if shareholders back plan to float Trump Media

AP News: Escaped white supremacist inmate and accomplice still at large after Idaho hospital ambush

The Oregonian: Here’s what happens when GPS sends big trucks to historic covered bridges

Courthouse News Service: UN report: E-waste growing five times faster than electronics recycling

San Luis Obispo Tribune: Videos: See damage to SLO Cal Poly dorms after St. Patrick’s Day partying trashes campus

AP News: Taps have run dry across South Africa’s largest city in an unprecedented water crisis

Sacramento Bee: Court upholds California rules to protect fish, but Newsom wants lenient Delta approach