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Thursday, April 4, 2024

SFGate: 'They are dinosaurs': Tahoe sees return of Sandhill cranes

SF Chronicle: A’s close in on agreement to play in Sacramento Triple-A ballpark in 2025

SF Chronicle: Bay Area storm could bring chance of thunderstorms, hail and record cold

East Bay Times: 'No one owns the title to San Francisco Bay’: Airport name battle heats up

East Bay Times: Thieves steal about $30 million in historic California heist, police says

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

The Guardian: Taiwan earthquake live updates: buildings collapse after strongest quake in 25 years; tsunami warning in Japan

BBC: Strongest earthquake in 25 years hits Taiwan - seismology centre

CNN: 7.4-magnitude quake strikes off Taiwan’s east coast, sparking tsunami warnings

Kaiser Health News: Hospitals Cash In on a Private Equity-Backed Trend: Concierge Physician Care

Kaiser Health News: More Patients Are Losing Their Doctors — And Trust in the Primary Care System

NY Times: Iowa Fertilizer Spill Kills Nearly All Fish Across 60-Mile Stretch of Rivers

The Athletic: N.C.A.A. Addresses Women’s Tournament 3-Point Line Discrepancy

NY Times: GUEST ESSAY: Let People Sell Their Kidneys. It Will Save Lives.

NY Times: Netanyahu Calls Strike That Killed 7 Aid Workers ‘Tragic’ and Unintentional

NPR: After years of trying, the U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws

NPR: A federal judge says migrants can sue the company that flew them to Martha's Vineyard

NPR: World Central Kitchen pauses its Gaza operations after workers are killed in an airstrike

The Guardian: The case for paying ranchers to raise trees instead of cattle

Smithsonian Magazine: Archaeologists Find ‘Remarkable’ Roman Villa Full of Coins, Jewelry and ‘Curse Tablets’

the Atlantic: The Clock Is Running Out on Migratory Birds

AP News: A 12-year-old student opens fire at a school in Finland, killing 1 and wounding 2 others

The Guardian: ‘My sons hated it’ … Shakira says Barbie film is ‘emasculating’

AP News: Freight railroads must keep 2-person crews, according to new federal rule

The Guardian: The soft life: why millennials are quitting the rat race

BBC: Why there's a revolution on the way in glass making

BBC: PM backs JK Rowling's views on new hate crime law

BBC: G Netanyahu admits 'unintentional' Israeli strike killed aid workers

The Guardian: One of Britain’s most wanted fugitives arrested at airport after 27 years on run

The Guardian: A car-free trip in the Scottish Highlands: I’d have missed so much if I’d driven

The Guardian: The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’

The Guardian: One last dish: US restaurateur drives six hours to fulfil dying woman’s wish

The Oregonian: Washington County has eliminated homeless encampments

Courthouse News Service: Germany gives controversial green light to cannabis

Courthouse News Service: After suit from tribes, Minnesota judge declines to overturn water quality standards

Oregon Public Broadcasting: First batch of Central Oregon wilderness permits drops April 2

Oregon Public Broadcasting: How Oregon’s Bottle Bill does — or doesn’t — play into the state’s drug crisis

Courthouse News Service: Ninth Circuit wades into battle over management of starving tule elk population in Marin

KQED: Toxic Dust Threatens California Salmon Population, Lawmaker Seeks Solution

KQED: California Community Colleges Losing Millions to Financial Aid Scams

Courthouse News Service: Feds accuse Southern California poultry processors of using child labor

LA Times: Lakers NBA title ring Kobe Bryant gifted to father sells for nearly $1 million

LA Times: Newsom has approved three California prison closures but resists pressure to shutter more

LA Times: Teen, reported kidnapped, was killed by deputies as she followed their instructions, video shows

LA Times: Opinion: A deadly but curable disease is thriving in L.A.’s jails. That’s unacceptable

LA Times: California is building fewer homes. The state could get even more expensive

Siskiyou Daily News: 'Finally the year:' Lake Shasta expected to fill by the end of April

KRCR: Trillions of cicadas to descend on US in rare event; biggest bug emergence in centuries

San Diego Union Tribune: More incorrect statements about ‘toxic mold’

Modesto Bee: Modesto police raid smoke shops, seizing flavored tobacco, cannabis and gambling machines

KTLA: These restaurants are exempt from California’s fast food minimum wage law