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Yesterday

KTLA: Palisades homes ‘too toxic’ to clear in phase 1, Army Corps to help in phase 2

East Bay Times: UC health and research workers in two unions stage statewide strike

KRCR: Cuts at Coleman National Fish Hatchery raise concerns for salmon population

KRCR: Sierra Pacific receives $75M from US Forest Service to combat wildfires

KRCR: Redding's new nighttime farmers market aiming to support community, small businesses

KRON: Ukiah man dies after arrest by sheriff’s deputies

SF Gate: Meth, abalone and a turtle: NorCal traffic stop takes a weird turn

East Bay Times: Santa Cruz coast: Hazardous waves prompt water rescues, Capitola beach closure

Marin Independent Journal: Where are federal jobs affected by DOGE cuts? A look at congressional districts across the US

Marin Independent Journal: Three wet winters in a row for the first time in 25 years? Sierra Nevada snowpack 85% of normal, with more storms forecast

SF Gate: Yosemite protesters did a genius thing with the park's webcams

SF Gate: Olympic National Park's Hoh Rain Forest needs federal funds to reopen. No one knows when it will.

SF Gate: Bay Area daycare raided in large guns and drugs operation

Thursday, Feb. 27

AP News: A Texas child who was not vaccinated has died of measles, a first for the US in a decade

AP News: Transgender troops are now being identified for removal under Pentagon orders

AP News: Musk has inside track to take over contract to fix air traffic communications system

Washington Post: She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this

The Atlantic: It’s Weird That Eggs Were Ever Cheap

KQED: Stanford Freezes Staff Hiring as it Braces for Possible Federal Funding Cuts

NPR: Pentagon directs removal of trans service members from military

NPR: Andrew Tate, facing rape and trafficking charges in Romania, is back in the U.S.

Politico: 23 Dem AGs think they’ve cracked the code to fighting Trump

Politico: GOP tax chief voiced ‘huge concern’ over Senate tax plan at White House meeting

Politico: Trump appears open to using private forces to help deport millions of undocumented immigrants

Politico: Judge orders Trump administration officials to give sworn testimony on DOGE

Politico: New York City health clinic now asking for proof of citizenship, citing Trump

Smithsonian Magazine: Can Electro-Agriculture Revolutionize the Way We Grow Food?

Smithsonian Magazine: SpaceX Rocket Stage Burns Up Over Europe and Crashes in Poland, While Blue Origin Debris Washes Ashore in the Bahamas

Smithsonian Magazine: Rare Footage Shows Baby Polar Bears Emerging From Their Den in the Arctic

The Guardian: Ice contractor plans for surveillance boom under Trump migrant crackdown

LA Times: Karuk Tribe enters first-of-its-kind agreement with the state to practice cultural burns

LA Times: Kern County immigration raid offers glimpse into new reality for California farmworkers

LA Times: Death of Gene Hackman, wife, dog deemed ‘suspicious’

OPB: Legislators push to prohibit net pen aquaculture in Oregon

NY Magazine: How the most influential Supreme Court lawyer of his generation gambled it all away.

Washington Post: Some Republicans fear Medicaid cuts could cost them their jobs

BBC: Trump says 25% tariffs on EU will be announced soon

The Guardian: Instagram Reels flooded with violent videos before Meta says it fixed error

The Guardian: Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’

The Oregonian: Public toilets could help stop the spread of dysentery (yes, dysentery) in Portland

OPB: People of Color Outdoors cultivates community by leading outside gatherings

OPB: Many USDA researchers working in the Northwest are fired, worked on everything from hops to potatoes

OPB: NOAA, federal weather and research agency, is firing workers in Oregon and Washington

The Guardian: Trump threatens China with additional 10% tariff in escalation of trade war

KRCR: Egg prices expected to soar 41% amid ongoing bird flu crisis

The Hill: Former lumber industry executive named as Forest Service chief

The Hill: ICE signs $1 billion contract with private firm for New Jersey detention center

The Hill: NOAA hit with layoffs

The Hill: Elon Musk urges retired air traffic controllers to come back

The Hill: Judge orders rescission of OPM memos directing agencies to fire probationary employees