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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

KPTV: UO professor on why Port of Portland Terminal 6 closure will impact trade nationwide

KPTV: Pro-Palestine protesters occupy Portland State Univ. library; campus closed Tuesday

Courthouse News Service: Recovery efforts underway in tornado-torn Oklahoma, Nebraska, Iowa

CBS News : U.S. Man accused of kicking bison at Yellowstone National Park is injured by animal and then arrested on alcohol charge

Sacramento Bee: Sac State students, community members pitch tents on campus to protest Israel, war in Gaza

ABC News: New details emerge in string of armored car heists in Los Angeles

SFGate: Drought-stricken Ventura reservoir fills for the first time since 1998

LA Times: Law that ended single-family zoning is struck down for five Southern California cities

LA Times: Tense standoff at Cal Poly Humboldt as police order Gaza protesters to leave

LA Times: The CHP was sent into this California city to crack down on crime. Here is what happened

LA Times: Pro-Palestinian protests, camps spread across California college campuses

KTLA: Owner of California addiction treatment center accused of paying for patients in kickback scheme

KTLA: 1 dead, 6 injured in crash involving police cruiser in Hollywood

KRCR: Former Chico Mayor struck by drunk driver; driver arrested

KRCR: 2 climbers rescued from Mount Shasta after surviving avalanche and treacherous weather

SFGate: California's 'Apple Store of weed' declares bankruptcy with $410M in debt

NY Times : ICYMI: A Small Campus in the Redwoods Has the Nation’s Most Entrenched Protest

SFGate: Tesla charging stations now open to all electric vehicles in California

SFGate: Sheriff's office identifies missing teenager swept away in the Trinity River

East Bay Times: Season’s first blue whale does ‘greyhounding lunges’ off California coast

East Bay Times: UCLA faculty walk out as pro-Palestinian demonstrations, counterprotests grow across California campuses

East Bay Times: UC Berkeley’s pro-Palestine encampment doubles in size

KRON: Kaiser Permanente notifies millions of members about data breach

KRON: Roads close due to blaze in Downtown Concord

Sunday, April 28, 2024

BBC: Palestinian leader appeals to US to stop Israel's Rafah offensive

BBC: The bluebell woodland turned 'desolate wasteland'

AP News: German police arrest a Russian man in connection with the fatal stabbings of 2 Ukrainian men

Time: A Test Told Me I’m Basically Made of Plastic. You Probably Are Too

The Guardian: ‘Indefensible’: UK prisoner jailed for 23 months killed himself after being held for 17 years

KOIN: Drug crisis devastates small-town Oregon

KOIN: ‘Mega-rare’ bird spotted at Oregon’s Hug Point is first sighting in U.S. history

The Guardian: An Unholy Traffic: how the slave trade continued through the US civil war

Newsweek: My Homeless Brother's Real Problem Wasn't a Lack of Oregon Shelters

NY Times: Denied a Second Chance at a Normal Senior Year

NY Times: As He Exits Congress, An Oregon Democrat Wants His Party to Embrace Pot Legalization

NY Times: A Wealth Shift That Could Leave Some Younger Americans Behind

NY Times: How Fentanyl Laid Waste to Guatemala’s Time-Worn Opium Trade

NY Times: How One Reaction to a Mural Tore a New England Town Apart

Washington Post: How cleaning product chemicals called ‘quats’ may affect the brain

Seattle Times: What an Indigenous media group hopes to accomplish with millions of MacKenzie Scott's dollars

ABC News: Pro-Palestinian protesters remain on University of Pennsylvania's campus despite warnings to disband

NBC News: Police raid encampments, arrest over 100 people during protests at Northeastern University

NBC: Midwest emerges from a night of tornadoes, storms, begins to assess destruction

Cal Matters: California wants to reform ticket sales for live events. Billion-dollar sports teams are fighting back

Reuters: As solar capacity grows, some of America's most productive farmland is at risk

Reuters: Elon Musk visits China as Tesla seeks self-driving technology rollout

BBC: Brewing giant Heineken fells orchard to sell land

BBC: Campus protests: Hundreds arrested at universities across US as Gaza demonstrations continue

Washington Post: Colin Jost’s funniest jokes at the White House correspondents’ dinner

NPR: Trump VP contender Kristi Noem responds to backlash over story about killing her dog