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Sunday, March 10, 2024

The Atlantic: The Fairy-Tale Promises of Montessori Parenting

The Guardian: ‘This factory kills everything’: the red dust of death in Italy’s under-developed south

KRCR: 1 pound of fentanyl and 14 illegal guns found at Redding residence; suspect not found

KTLA: U.S. says these mistakes could get spring breakers hurt or killed in Mexico

The Guardian: Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’

The Guardian: Colorado could bring back wolverines in an unprecedented rewilding effort

The Guardian: Why disturbing leaks from US gender group WPATH ring alarm bells in the NHS

Washington Post: A youthquake is propelling a far-right surge across Europe

The Hill: Why being on the ‘Do Not Call’ list doesn’t actually stop spam calls, texts

The Hill: US Embassy in Haiti begins evacuations amid heightened gang violence

The Guardian: Zyn nicotine pouches are the latest US culture-war front – but are they any good?

Politico: How Raw Milk Went from a Whole Foods Staple to a Conservative Signal

The Guardian: ‘You cannot look away’: Amsterdam Holocaust museum opens amid protests

The Guardian: Eight children and an adult die in Zanzibar after eating sea turtle meat

The Guardian: Bald eagles seen nesting in Toronto for first time in city’s recorded history

The Oregonian: The country’s best science museum is in Portland, Newsweek readers say

LA Times: Soldiers and civilians are dying as Mexican cartels embrace a terrifying new weapon: Land mines

AP News: Stratolaunch conducts first powered flight of new hypersonic vehicle off California coast

Courthouse News Service: Pointing to human trafficking, some California lawmakers hope to reinstate prostitution loitering law

Courthouse News Service: Beloved Monterey racetrack sees noise lawsuit from frustrated neighbors

Scientific American: Microplastics Linked to Heart Attack, Stroke and Death

Courthouse News Service: Party-line split in public opinion of US Supreme Court seen for first time

Oregon Public Broadcasting: First gathering of Native Weavers of Oregon keeps tradition alive

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon governor will sign bill to recriminalize drugs, expand treatment

SFGate: Thousands of college athletes sell their face to Bay Area’s EA for $600 and a video game

Sacramento Bee: Child measles case at Sacramento hospital may have exposed 300 people, health officials say

LA Times: At least 19 dead and 7 missing as landslide and flash floods hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island

AP News: The US is springing forward to daylight saving. For Navajo and Hopi tribes, it’s a time of confusion

AP News: Never too old for love — 100-year-old US World War II vet to wed his 96-year-old fiancee in France

AP News: A surge of illegal homemade machine guns has helped fuel gun violence in the U.S.

SFGate: Sonoma County sewage spill leaks into Russian River

SF Chronicle: Tulip Day blooms in S.F. as thousands wait hours for pick of free flowers

SF Chronicle: Two dead following boating accident in San Joaquin County

LA Times: 5 firefighters hospitalized after blaze at unpermitted cannabis operation in downtown L.A.

LA Times: Storied presses print L.A. Times for the last time as production moves to Riverside

SF Chronicle: Overhaul of faulty Monterey County levee is finally underway — but flood risks remain

SFGate: Landslides are changing Calif.'s coastline. 100 years ago, one swallowed a city.

East Bay Times: California has 2nd-smallest wage gap between women and men in US

East Bay Times: Amid Lily Gladstone’s historic moment, why is Sacheen Littlefeather back in the news?

East Bay Times: Police testify slain Union City children, 11 and 14, were gang members, targeted amid rivalry with Hayward Norteños

East Bay Times: Editorial: California should reject AT&T bid to shed landlines

Marin Independent Journal: East Bay filmmaker Sean Wang, and his grandmothers, eye Oscar glory

Thursday, March 7, 2024

KRON: Armed robber leaves Martinez store clerk with jar of marijuana

East Bay Times: What could be next for Rep. Katie Porter after Senate loss?

East Bay Times: ‘I will be hunted the rest of my life’: Founder of notorious California skinhead gang recounts his life of crime from the witness stand

The Guardian: Carved up and sold off: developers plan a ‘new Miami’ in Argentina’s nature-rich wetlands

The Guardian: Left to rot: how a prisoner cleaned up Panama’s dirtiest jail – and its inmates

BBC: Video: 'Stampede' of kangaroos invades Melbourne golf course

The Atlantic: The Science Behind Ozempic Was Wrong

Politico: Attack on ship in the Middle East causes first fatalities in assaults on commercial freighters