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Thursday, July 3

Action News Shasta: Man pleads guilty to 2005 killing of Patricia Joseph in Siskiyou County

Action News Shasta: Shasta County's Horse Fire grows to 200 acres overnight

KRCR: California celebrates a decade of gray wolf resurgence with new conservation report

KRCR: Health advisory issued for parts of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area

SF Gate: A busy local lumber mill gives LA's fallen trees new life

CBS Sacramento: California moves to set nation's first smoke damage insurance standard

KRON: Oakland baby rescued from fentanyl lab during drug bust: sheriff

CBS Bay Area: San Francisco deputies find 1,600 pounds of illegal fireworks inside stolen U-Haul truck

CBS Bay Area: Local News 7 "unaccounted for" after California fireworks warehouse explosion, officials say

CBS Bay Area: Bay Area man famous for trash cleanups temporarily calling quits on Oakland

SF Gate: Alleged assault leads to high-speed car chase through 2 national parks

SF Gate: Madre Fire explodes to nearly 10,000 acres, closes California's Highway 166

SF Gate: Historic Northern California bridge became Instagram famous. Then it got shut down.

Marin Independent Journal: New e-bike rules taking effect across Marin

East Bay Times: Contra Costa County reports 26% drop in homelessness

Tuesday, July 1

The Atlantic: The Christian Rocker at the Center of MAGA

Smithsonian Magazine: These Killer Whales Make Tools From Kelp to Massage Each Other in a Newly Discovered Grooming Behavior

BBC: A look at the key items in Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'

AP News: Trump says Israel has agreed on terms for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and urges Hamas to accept deal

CNBC: ‘Big beautiful bill’ mostly benefits the rich, while low earners would suffer from Medicaid and SNAP cuts, Yale report finds

Fortune: North Korean operatives and American accomplices accused in massive fraud that infiltrated the Fortune 500 and stole millions

Financial Times: Psychedelic nasal spray shows promise against depression

The Atlantic: The Conservative Attack on Empathy

NY Times : Three Great Documentaries to Stream

Texas Monthly: “What in the World Would Justify Doing This?”: A Texas Vet and Hemp-Business Owner on the Looming THC Ban

BBC: Parasites and Staphylococcus: How hygienic are public swimming pools really?

Washington Post: Why aren’t Italians as obese as Americans? It’s not really what they eat.

Politico: Planned Parenthood funding at grave risk after Senate ruling

The Atlantic: What a ‘Spiral of Silence’ Can Do to a Democracy

The Atlantic: A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading

The Atlantic: The Whole Country Is Starting to Look Like California

Washington Post: Do the facts support Trump’s claims? We asked AI.

Phys.Org: A single brain scan can tell how fast you're aging

The Guardian: ‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: A French region has banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?

BBC: Ten things to know about veganism in childhood

Politico: The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France

The Guardian: ‘They came for our land, our wood, our gold’: Santiago Yahuarcani, Peruvian painter of dancing dolphins – and genocide

The Hill: Trump’s latest attack on the courts: suing the judges themselves

AP News: More than 300 charged in $14.6 billion health care fraud schemes takedown, Justice Department says

BBC: US Senate Republicans struggle to push Trump's budget bill over finish line

BBC: Video: Millions of 'lovebugs' swarm hikers in South Korea

BBC: UK sees hottest day of the year so far and Turkey battles wildfires in Europe heatwave

The Guardian: UK’s chief rabbi says Bob Vylan Glastonbury chant was ‘vile Jew-hatred’

The Guardian: You love the outdoors. So why are you pooping all over it?

The Hill: Vance arrives at Capitol as GOP short votes to pass Trump megabill

The Hill: Trump unveils $249 ‘Trump Fragrances’

The Guardian: After 150 years, a prized box returns to an Indigenous nation in Canada: ‘I felt like royalty traveling with it’

The Guardian: Trump’s justice department issues directive to strip naturalized Americans of citizenship for criminal offenses

The Guardian: Witnesses describe grim aftermath of Israeli strike on busy Gaza cafe

The Guardian: Marathon vote on Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ continues as ‘vote-a-rama’ becomes longest in Senate history – US politics live