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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

East Bay Times: Over $450,000 in back pay, damages awarded to workers at Half Moon Bay farms where mass shootings took place

SFGate: Warm weather, gale-like winds expected to hit Bay Area this week

KRON: Stop signs replace traffic light at Oakland intersection after suspected repeated copper theft

SFGate: Person who toppled historic Death Valley tower comes forward

SFGate: Man found alive after his car plummeted 200 feet off Bay Area cliff

SFGate: California's most underrated band finally goes gold thanks to TikTok

SFGate: He toured with the Grateful Dead and now runs the Bay Area's biggest Tibetan monastery

SFGate: 1 dead, others injured after London-Singapore flight hit severe turbulence, Singapore Airlines says

KRCR: California proposes millions to make firefighter hand crews permanent

KRCR: Eureka man sentenced to 10 years for possessing over 300 child pornography files

East Bay Times: 13-year-old charged in fatal stabbing of teen inside East Bay grocery store

Sunday, May 19, 2024

BBC: Diddy apologises for 'inexcusable' behaviour

The Hill: Rep. Jasmine Crockett offering ‘bleach blonde’ T-shirts following spat with Greene

BBC: Rescue teams search for Iran's president after helicopter crash - reports

KQED: Federal Judge Orders New Sentencing Hearing for David DePape in Trial Over Pelosi Attack

AP News: Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says, and rescue is underway

NY Times: At Chaotic Rally in Brooklyn, Police Violently Confront Protesters

Politico: House unveils $1.5 trillion farm bill after long delay

the Atlantic: Meerkats Keep Dropping Dead From Heart Failure

Courthouse News Service: Flipping through time: Inside Alameda’s Pacific Pinball Museum, where history and fun collide

Courthouse News Service: Denmark let chemical factory pump excessive levels of toxins into sea, report says

Courthouse News Service: Judicial Council of California looking into use of generative AI in courts

Oregon Public Broadcasting: How Oregon farms manage manure and what’s changing this year

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Heavy-duty truck maker with Portland roots will build $40 million engineering facility on Swan Island

Washington Post: After years of Democratic dominance, Nevada could be slipping from Biden’s grasp

Washington Post: Opinion: We’re letting Trump distract us from his corrupt, anti-climate agenda

Washington Post: Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas

NY Times: A New Challenge for Asylum Seekers: Lawyer Shortages

The Guardian: Academic and doctor Chris van Tulleken: ‘Ultra-processed products are food that lies to us’

AP News: internet service in Indonesia, world’s largest archipelago

The Guardian: Grinding our bums, flashing our boobs: the internet is making juveniles of us all

Business Insider: Some Airbnb hosts run over 20 properties. Here are the 15 cities these megahosts dominate the most.

ABC News: Iowans struggle to find homeowners insurance as companies pullout of the state

Reuters: Eruption of Indonesia's Mt Ibu forces seven villages to evacuate

BBC: Cuba laments collapse of iconic sugar industry

The Guardian: Gen-Z students are choosing a trade over college. That shows they’re smart

NPR: Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening thousands of Americans' homes

The Guardian: Young pigeon fanciers: meet the new kids on the flock

NPR: A member of Israel's war cabinet says he'll quit if there is no plan to replace Hamas

The Guardian: Florida’s other big November vote: will the state legalize weed?

The Guardian: ‘One hell of a storm is coming’: Canadian graphic novel about Indigenous identity sparks outrage

Seattle Times: 44 years after eruption, Mount St. Helens struggles to draw tourists

Seattle Times: All elevators in Seattle low-income high-rise are broken — with no fix in sight

KPTV: Rare deep-sea angler fish found near Cannon Beach

The Oregonian: Someone has been throwing canned food off a Portland high-rise for weeks, endangering those below

The Oregonian: Tiny home villages more effective than group shelters at getting formerly homeless people permanently housed, study finds

LA Times: Cloudy with a chance of rage: Climatologists fume over relocation of L.A. weather station

The Oregonian: Runaway boat lassoed on the Willamette River by Portland Fire & Rescue

LA Times: California pays meth users up to $599 a year to get sober

AP News: Houston residents seek relief after storm knocks out power to thousands