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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025

The Atlantic: Trump Is Setting the National Parks Up to Fail

The Atlantic: One Obvious, Underused Child-Care Solution: Pay grandparents.

The Hill: Greene ‘disgusted’ if health care tax credits expire and premiums double

The Hill: There are 72 percent more condo sellers than buyers in the US: Redfin

Washington Post: How Big Agriculture got its way in the latest MAHA report

Reuters: Tesla expected to unveil lower-cost Model Y in push to reignite sales

Reuters: Gold powers ahead in record-breaking run, marches towards $4000 mark

Washington Post: Exclusive Here’s how TikTok ‘power users’ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more

Phys.Org: Heart disease mortality shown to disproportionately burden low-income communities in California

Reuters: Trump bailout for trade-hit US farmers expected this week

Reuters: Exclusive: Trump official bypassed ethics rules in criminal referrals of Fed governor and other foes, sources say

AP News: Video: Southern right whales awe admirers in Patagonia after coming back from brink of extinction

Study Finds: Maine’s Warming Waters Are Shrinking Baby Lobsters. Prices Could Soar, Experts Warn

Study Finds: Single Psilocybin Dose Reverses Pain And Depression In Mice Within 24 Hours

The Guardian: Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick

The Guardian: Rural Willows, CA outraged as only hospital forced to shut: ‘I would have died without it’

The Guardian: New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

The Guardian: Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

The Guardian: Trump orders approval of 211-mile mining road through Alaska wilderness

AP News: Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago fear for their lives and jobs after US strikes in the Caribbean

AP News: US has given at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since war in Gaza began, report says

BBC: One iPhone led police to gang suspected of sending up to 40,000 stolen UK phones to China

OPB: This Portland theater has shown the ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ every Saturday since 1978

OPB: Saving Puget Sound’s puffins: Bringing these ocean ambassadors back from the brink

Courthouse News Service: California says offshore oil drilling company cut corners in restart

Courthouse News Service: Live Nation loses SCOTUS appeal, forcing ticket seller to face antitrust suit

Courthouse News Service: Trump’s EPA accused of illegally axing $7 billion solar energy program

OPB: Appeals judges will decide fate of Portland troop deployment

BBC: Food firms scramble to meet the high-protein craze

BBC: Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

KTLA: Burbank airport without air-traffic controllers for hours amid staffing shortage

San Joaquin Valley Sun: Calif. Insurance Commissioner faces probe over pricey international trips on taxpayer’s dime

KTLA: California officials urge Gov. Newsom to sign copper wire theft bill

KTLA: $500,000 in stolen Nike merchandise seized from Santa Monica warehouse

KTLA: California train theft suspects nabbed with $375K in stolen goods: SBSD

AP News: EF5 tornado that killed 3 in North Dakota was the nation’s first in 12 years

CBS News : California's redistricting plan sparks fierce debate in 2026 governor's race

CBS News Sacramento: Federal funding cut from massive Lodi clean energy project

KCRA: Bystander recounts jumping in to help after medical helicopter crashes on Highway 50 in Sacramento

AP News: Motorists lift medical helicopter to rescue woman after crash injuring 3 on Sacramento highway

KRON: America saw ‘essentially no job growth’ last month, Moody’s warns

CBS News : Covered California enrollees could see health care costs rise without congressional action

KRON: CHP investigates medical helicopter crash causing traffic delays on Highway 50, injuries reported

CBS News : California records fifth West Nile virus death this year, victim identified as Roseville man

CBS News Bay Area: Bay Area community will have to use California FAIR plan as rate hike looms

CBS News Bay Area: Santa Rosa City Schools District faces possible state takeover due to fiscal crisis

KRON: Silicon Colosseum: A look inside San Francisco’s underground robot fight club

East Bay Times: All hail ‘Farmer Mike,’ the Bay Area’s preeminent pumpkin carver

East Bay Times: Palo Alto environmental group buys three farms for $7.8 million

East Bay Times: Seven arrested in smash-and-grab burglary at Sunvalley Shopping Center