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Sunday, March 31, 2024

San Jose Mercury News: How the Aryan Brotherhood moved drugs in secret, as told by those who did it

LA Times: Ventura County farmer and former water board member pleads guilty to water theft

The Guardian: US telecoms firm AT&T notifying millions of customers over data breach

The Guardian: Cancer signs could be spotted years before symptoms, says new research institute

The Guardian: Thousands of Israeli protesters call for Netanyahu’s removal

LA Times: California is making fentanyl test strips free to organizations. How to get a kit

LA Times: Part of Highway 1 near Big Sur crumbles as new landslide closes more of historic roadway

LA Times: Salmon populations are struggling, bringing economic woes for California’s fishing fleet

SF Chronicle: Three arrested as police target pirates on Oakland’s waterfront

SF Chronicle: No hallucination: Hundreds back magic mushrooms at Oakland psychedelic wellness conference

KRCR: Shasta Treatment Center in Redding disputes audit validity, fears closure

KRCR: UPDATE: Missing 19-year-old Chico woman found deceased Saturday morning

SFGate: Why the whooping cough outbreak at Marin's Tam High School isn't surprising

KTLA: Big rig driver travels 10 miles in wrong direction on Southern California freeway

KTLA: About 73M current, former AT&T account holders impacted by data leak linked to dark web

SFGate: 'Daddy, they fell through': Family rescues 2 people from icy Tahoe pond

SF Chronicle: Two dams are coming down on California’s Eel River. Will it threaten water supplies?

KRON: Number of passengers arrested on BART doubles

KRON: Nearly 500 surveillance cameras will be installed in Oakland, East Bay

SF Chronicle: Students at this S.F. high school defy odds to get into UCs, elite colleges. What’s the secret?

SFGate: Two dead in Tahoe plane crash near residential neighborhood

East Bay Times: Gov. Newsom taps Caltrans to help clear Oakland homeless encampments

Thursday, March 28, 2024

CBS News : Subaru recalls nearly 119,000 vehicles over air bag problem

Seattle Times: Boeing paid out $418M in bonuses to WA employees last month

Courthouse News Service: Virginia governor puts kibosh on retail cannabis market, minimum-wage increase

Courthouse News Service: Imperial Beach residents seek solutions to Tijuana River sewage pollution

ABC News: More than half of water from Colorado River used for agriculture industry, report finds

East Bay Times: Dungeness crab season in Bay Area, Central Coast will come to an early end

SF Chronicle: Like many older people, Joe Lieberman died after a fall. It doesn’t have to be this way

SF Chronicle: A’s fans pack Coliseum parking lot for home opener, abstain from the game

The Guardian: Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study

The Guardian: Rural California county keeps ultra conservative official who pushed to upend voting system

Washington Post: More than one alcoholic drink a day raises heart disease risk for women

The Hill: Army Corps of Engineers to deploy 1,100 personnel to Baltimore

Smithsonian Magazine: How Baseball’s Official Historian Dug Up the Game’s Unknown Origins

Smithsonian Magazine: Bird Flu Confirmed in U.S. Dairy Cows for the First Time, but Milk Supply Is Unaffected, Officials Say

Politico: Palm Springs reparations talks could set national precedent

Politico: Why Portland failed where Portugal succeeded in decriminalizing drugs

Reuters: Chocolate prices to keep rising as West Africa’s cocoa crisis deepens

Reuters: A million solar eclipse enthusiasts expected at Niagara Falls

Washington Post: Qatari royal invested about $50 million in pro-Trump network Newsmax

Washington Post: Indoor farms are remaking the produce market — at a cost to the planet

NY Times: A Legal Pot Pioneer Was Busted in Idaho With 56 Pounds. He Has a Plan.

The Guardian: How a viral $22 burrito explains inflation in the US

The Guardian: The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS – podcast

NPR: Can grief make us accident-prone? A writer learns how it destabilizes and remakes us

BBC: Why is Finland the happiest country in the world?

The Guardian: Amazon pours additional $2.75bn into AI startup Anthropic

The Oregonian: 3 wolverine sightings confirmed along the Oregon coast

NPR: Kickoffs will look radically different in the NFL next year. Here's how and why