Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Tuesday, Sept. 16
The Guardian: AI will make the rich unfathomably richer. Is this really what we want?
Lodi News: Lodi teen places 4th in open-water swim at Sharkfest Golden Gate
San Joaquin Valley Sun: Fresno State professor suspended after wishing death on Charlie Kirk amid assassination chaos
OPB: Some Portland neighborhoods’ tree-lined streets may suffer more than others from emerald ash borer
The Oregonian: Trump wants to end quarterly earnings reports for public companies
The Guardian: Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89
Courthouse News Service: UK leader decries violence after Musk urges nationalist rally to 'fight back or die
The Guardian: ‘Diplomatic abuse’: Brazil minister on US revoking his 10-year-old daughter’s visa
The Guardian: JD Vance backs mass ‘doxing’ campaign to find and harass Charlie Kirk critics
Courthouse News Service: Huntington Beach can't dodge affordable housing mandate
Sacramento Bee: Union reaches tentative agreement for 6,000 California grocery workers
KRCR: 30th annual Nome Cult Walk honors Native ancestors, 100-mile walk from Chico to Covelo
KTLA: Why is beef so expensive these days?
CBS News : California study: Wildfire defensible space, home hardening double number of homes saved
KCRA: Lodi residents express fear after what police call 'gang-related' shootings outside bowling alley
KRON: Eucalyptus trees removed from East Bay parks
KRON: Nine caught ‘gambling in public view’ of children and families, thousands in cash recovered
KPIX: On San Francisco Bay, kiteboarding rides wave of popularity
Action News: Shasta County crash leaves woman and 8-year-old boy dead
KRCR: Turning Point USA's professor watchlist sparks fear for Chico State Professor
Action News: CHP finds $173K cash hidden in car door after Red Bluff crash
SF Gate: Bay Area scientists find even more reasons to hate daylight saving time
East Bay Times: Antioch’s $160 million desalination plant begins operation in bid to boost city water supply
Marin Independent Journal: Review: Neil Young finally returns to Bridge School Benefit home
Marin Independent Journal: Sausalito study delivers ‘dreary news’ on rising sea
Marin Independent Journal: California tied with Louisiana for highest U.S. poverty rate, think tank reports
SF Gate: Teen dies after 75-foot fall while watching Bay Area sideshow
AP News: Robert Redford, Oscar-winning actor, director and indie patriarch, dies at 89
Sunday, Sept. 14
AP News: Driver in crash that killed Oregon softball coach and player sentenced to 20 years in prison
The Guardian: Jeffrey Epstein was linked to the upper echelons of wealth and politics – but where did he get his fortune?
Reuters: Explosion in Spanish capital injures 21, three seriously
AP News: The world’s tallest sunflower blooms in an Indiana backyard as a tribute to Ukraine
AP News: Trump’s travel ban keeps international students from coming to the US for college
The Guardian: How the US rightwing is taking over news media and choking press freedom
The Guardian: United by tragedy, California dining club aims to save one restaurant at a time
Reuters: Pentagon plans 1,000 National Guard troops for Louisiana policing, Washington Post reports
BBC: Yoga in barns, sound baths in fields: How farms became healing hubs
BBC: Japan sets record of nearly 100,000 people aged over 100
AP News: More than 100,000 people pack streets of central London in march organized by far-right activist
AP News: Venezuela says US navy raided a tuna boat in the Caribbean as tensions rise
AP News: After Charlie Kirk’s death, workers learn the limits of free speech in and out of their jobs
The Hill: Trump effort to target television drug ads could have massive implications
The Guardian: Los Angeles on edge as agents threaten to ‘flood the zone’ with immigration raids
The Oregonian: Oregon wood treater fined more than $1M for polluting drinking water, other violations
KRCR: Redding police chief alarmed by sex offenders housed in East Redding hotel
OPB: Megachurch leader and his mother indicted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges
OPB: People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk
The Oregonian: Black Rock Coffee Bar, founded in Oregon, worth more than $1 billion after IPO
KTLA: Suspect arrested half-nude after stealing ambulance from Downey murder scene
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