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Thursday, July 4

The Guardian: Spain’s traditional food markets are fading away – and with them, a whole way of life

AP News: Lightning strike blamed for wildfire that killed 2 people in New Mexico, damaged 1,400 structures

AP News: US agency to fight invasive bass threatening humpback chub, other protected fish in Grand Canyon

AP News: Transgender, nonbinary 1,500 runner Nikki Hiltz, earns spot at Paris Games

The Guardian: California to spend $12m on reparations in milestone move to address racist past

Smithsonian Magazine: The Festival Where Scotland’s Violent History Comes Back to Life

AP News: Trump wasn’t exonerated by the presidential immunity ruling, even though he says he was

NY Times : Why a New Conservative Brain Trust Is Resettling Across America

NY Times : Some Californians Found Dream Homes Inland. But It Sure Is Hot There.

Courthouse News Service: Israel turbocharges West Bank settlement expansion with largest land grab in decades

Courthouse News Service: Kratom company can’t dodge lawsuit over undisclosed addiction risk

Courthouse News Service: Gun rights groups sue California for new 11% tax on gun sales

NBC News: He got $30K to leave the military when it needed to downsize. Now the government wants that money back.

NBC News: FBI investigating after nearly 200 gravestones at 2 Jewish cemeteries are vandalized

The Oregonian: This Oregon coast destination is one of ‘The 28 Most Beautiful Towns in America’

The Oregonian: Oregon coast’s last wood-frame lighthouse is set for $1.4 million renovation

Oregon Public Broadcasting: An Oregon man bugles his way to become the world’s elk calling champion

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Sea otters spotted off Oregon coast, a rare sight after a century of near-extinction

Oregon Public Broadcasting: To save spotted owls on West Coast, US officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species

The Guardian: ‘It needs to stay in the loop’: German reuse schemes turn shopping upside down

AP News: Hurricane Beryl roars toward Mexico after leaving destruction in Jamaica and eastern Caribbean

AP News: UK heads to the polls in an election that could end 14 years of Conservative government

Smithsonian Magazine: Alaska’s Juneau Icefield Is Melting at an ‘Incredibly Worrying’ 50,000 Gallons per Second, Researchers Find

Marin Independent Journal: Italian homicide sentences cut for former Marin classmates

The Guardian: Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body

LA Times: Live poultry markets may be source of bird flu virus in San Francisco wastewater

LA Times: California community’s future at risk in fight over declining groundwater, residents say

NPR: A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial

SF Chronicle: Bay Area’s famed Flintstone House now serving $230 sushi dinner with Michelin-star cred

SF Gate: Las Vegas poised to break its all-time record high temperature amid heat wave

NPR: Removing the highway is the easy part. Reconnecting the community is harder.

NPR: To save spotted owls, officials plan to kill a half-million barred owls on West Coast

The Guardian: Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

San Jose Mercury News: No fireworks? No problem: Bay Area cities host Fourth of July drone shows

San Jose Mercury News: New graduation requirements coming for California seniors

LA Times: Californians won’t pay more than one month’s rent for security deposits under new law

KCRA: California Legislature votes to ask voters for permission borrow $20 billion for climate, schools

KRCR: Humboldt County opens cooling centers for residents to be safe during extreme heat

KRCR: Police stop kidnapping and attempted bank robbery in downtown Redding

LA Times: California’s homicide rate fell nearly 16% last year, state report shows

SF Gate: California incorporates new city for the first time in more than a decade

KTLA: Pleasure boat crash in Long Beach leaves 1 dead, 10 hospitalized

KRON: Crews search for possible drowning victim in Russian River

CBS News : Bay Area firefighters injured in crash while responding to Thompson Fire in Butte County

CBS News : Thompson Fire in Butte County grows to over 3,500 acres near Oroville; 28,000 people under evacuation orders

Tuesday, July 2

KRCR: High-speed chase near Fortuna ends with wanted felon's arrest on multiple charges

KRCR: Lack of judges leads to 16 felony case dismissals this year in Shasta County

KTLA: He went to the beach to clean up garbage. He left with broken bones and a concussion

LA Times: NCIS investigating after major general is found dead at Twentynine Palms Marine base

KTLA: 3 teens among 4 killed after DUI pursuit ends in violent, fiery crash