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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024

Business Insider: Wall Street wants your home

BBC: Watch: Rescuers use therml imaging to find missing five-year-old in swamp

BBC: Wendy's denies plans for surge pricing after backlash

BBC: Texas battles second-biggest wildfire in US history

BBC: Shohei Ohtani: Baseball superstar announces marriage to Japanese woman

AP News: What will win at the Oscars? AP’s film writers set their predictions

BBC: More than 30,000 killed in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says

NY Times: China Has Thousands of Navalnys, Hidden From the Public

NY Times: In Taking Up Trump’s Immunity Claim, Supreme Court Bolstered His Delay Strategy

AP News: Shasta County ditched its vote counting machines. Now a supporter faces a recall election

Smithsonian Magazine: A Japanese American Incarceration Camp in Colorado Is America’s Newest National Park

AP News: The future is now: 16- and 17-year-olds win the right to vote in local elections in a Vermont town

Smithsonian Magazine: The World’s Smallest Vertebrate Is a Tiny Brazilian Frog, Study Finds

Smithsonian Magazine: 7,000 Humpback Whales May Have Starved to Death During the ‘Blob’ Heatwave

CBS News : U.S. Multiple Mississippi prisons controlled by gangs and violence, DOJ report says

CBS News : U.S. Food packaging containing toxic "forever chemicals" no longer sold in U.S., FDA says

MSN News: Deadly bird flu discovered on Antarctica, threatening penguin colonies

Washington Post: The ‘greenest’ car in America might surprise you

Consumer Reports: These Video Doorbells Have Terrible Security. Amazon Sells Them Anyway.

Washington Post: Don’t toss out old stuffed animals. They can have a second life.

The Guardian: Idaho halts man’s execution after eight attempts to find vein for lethal injection

The Guardian: ‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in extreme heat

Courthouse News Service: Federal judge skeptical of effort to block nearly 200 oil and gas sales in US West

The Oregonian: Lake Oswego dad accused of drugging girls at sleepover

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Another tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon’s drug recriminalization bill sails through key committee, heads for House vote

LA Times: California seized enough fentanyl last year to kill everyone in the world ‘nearly twice over’

LA Times: Billy clubs? Butterfly knives? Legal shift on 2nd Amendment affects more than just guns

The Guardian: 'More good days than bad': the Ukrainian refugees rebuilding their lives in California

The Guardian: Risotto crisis: the fight to save Italy’s beloved dish from extinction

The Guardian: Trump gave top US firms staggering tax cuts, with some paying $0 or less – report

KTLA: Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano erupts 13 times in a single day

LA Times: Opinion: A San Francisco carve out could wreck California’s landmark coastal protections

LA Times: California effort to crack down on legacy and donor admissions could hit USC, Stanford

LA Times: Democratic Party chair Rusty Hicks assailed as outsider in bid for North Coast Assembly seat

LA Times: Forget California exodus. New Jersey residents lead an influx back into the Golden State

LA Times: Newsom wants to build a $16-billion water tunnel. Will it destroy California’s delta?

KRCR: Mount Shasta ski park, city brace for biggest predicted winter storm this year

KRCR: Update: Wanted suspect apprehended after tense standoff in Lewiston

KRCR: Redding smoke shops busted for illegal sales to minors, 'magic mushroom' chocolates seized

Public Law Library: Lawsuit contends Healdsburg’s dispensary permitting process flawed

Press Democrat: Next ‘Star Wars’ film to shoot entirely in California, including in the North Bay

Sacramento Bee: Sacramento County could soon begin scanning sewage for fentanyl, under California bill

SFGate: Humboldt's Lanphere Dunes is pristine Calif. coastline. A gun-toting woman made sure of it.

Humboldt's Centerville Beach Parking Area Slides Into Ocean: People flee as cliffside parking lot crashes into ocean in California, video shows

Marin Independent Journal: Biggest storm of the year to bring up to 10 feet of snow and “near to impossible” travel conditions to Sierra this week

East Bay Times: East Bay woman strangled on Santa Cruz beach ID’d

East Bay Times: Bay Area sideshow with 300 participants results in one man shot, hospitalized

SFGate: Wendy's plans to test surge pricing just like Uber

SFGate: Driver flies off road, lands along rugged cliffs by California's Highway 1