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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Thursday, May 2, 2024

San Jose Mercury News: At East Bay federal prison tainted by sex-abuse scandal, all of the prisoners have been cleared out

San Jose Mercury News: Wife of Southern California radiologist accused of driving family off Devil’s Slide cliff speaks in court for first time

SF Chronicle: California electricity prices now second-highest in U.S.: ‘Everyone is getting squeezed’

the Atlantic: Authentic or Out of Control? Why a Bit of Restraint Can Do You a Lot of Good

NY Times: After a Long Stretch of Darkness, the Bay Bridge Lights Are Returning

NY Times: Can Forests Be More Profitable Than Beef?

NPR: Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

KQED: What Does Marijuana Reclassification Mean for the United States?

KCRA: California Capitol goes red to commemorate missing and murdered Indigenous people

Washington Post: The children who remember their past lives

Yahoo News: ‘Detestable’: Guard busted inside Central California prison. Officials found him with fentanyl

KCRA: How many people in encampments accepted mental health help in Sacramento County?

Sacramento Bee: Huge Blue Whale stuns California onlookers in early sighting

Washington Post: Biden to expand two California national monuments crucial to tribes

Washington Post: The ‘shed hunt’ is on. Towering prongs of elk antlers are the prize.

Washington Post: In Oregon, Medicaid is buying people air conditioners

Washington Post: Police at UCLA push through barricades, use stun grenades and detain protesters

The Guardian: Wisconsin police kill student who came to middle school with a gun

NY Times: Before the Violence, U.C.L.A. Thought a Tolerant Approach Would Work

BBC: Apple working to fix iPhone alarm issue

The Guardian: Australian red meat industry has recorded 78% reduction in emissions since 2005, report shows

The Guardian: Humboldt: Gaza protesters occupying building at rural California university arrested in police crackdown

The Guardian: Chimps are dying of the common cold. Is great ape tourism to blame?

The Hill: Manchin vows to introduce resolution to overturn Biden permitting rule

AP News: Trump says he’ll use National Guard to deport migrants, doubling down on anti-immigration rhetoric

The Guardian: Review: A Man in Full – skin-crawling Trump satire is a worthy Succession replacement

The Guardian: Universal signs TikTok deal allowing artists back on platform

The Guardian: ‘I was lying on the ground beside a wall of cops’: student photographers’ best images of the campus protests

BBC: Arrests at Columbia of Gaza protesters after NYPD raid

BBC: Police rip down barricades as they break down Gaza protest in LA

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Here’s this year’s list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.

BBC: Arizona Senate votes to repeal 1864 abortion ban

AP News: Death toll jumps to at least 48 as a search continues in southern China highway collapse

Press Democrat: Avelo Airlines celebrates new milestone at Sonoma County airport

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Federal agency announces next steps for Southern Oregon offshore wind energy

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Federal cannabis reclassification could bring pharmaceutical companies to Oregon’s marijuana industry

KPTV: Portland police say they are working to de-escalate occupation of PSU library

The Oregonian: Indigenous teens emulate ancestors’ Arctic survival skills in Native Youth Olympics

MSN News: Crowdfunding and suitcases full of cash: How Gazans are paying to escape war

Marin Independent Journal: Marin dam expansion proposals rile ranchers

KPIX: Bay Area scientists use game-changing technology to help birds amid climate change

KPIX: New California law will ban restaurant surcharges on customer bills

LA Times: Four UCLA student journalists attacked by pro-Israel counterprotesters on campus

San Jose Mercury News: Cal Poly Humboldt closure still enforced after crackdown on protesters

MSN News: California begins demolition of 173-foot Iron Gate dam as part of nation’s largest removal project

LA Times: San Gabriel Mountains National Monument expanding by more than 100,000 acres

LA Times: As court overturns a lot-splitting law, SB 9, one early adopter asks why

LA Times: Massive police operation breaches UCLA pro-Palestinian encampment, makes arrests

Denver Post: “A big deal”: What the feds’ move to reclassify marijuana means for Colorado cannabis

SFGate: MLB star Shohei Ohtani building massive mansion on Hawaii's Big Island