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Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024

East Bay Times: Richard Thornton, Olympian and legendary Bay Area swim coach, dies surfing in Santa Cruz

The Guardian: Birds of prey in Africa experiencing population collapse, study finds

The Guardian: New York mayor sues bus operators that brought migrants from Texas for $708m

SF Chronicle: Paying people to stay sober: Promising but controversial treatment taking hold in California

SF Chronicle: ‘Our stolen relatives’: This investigator digs into cold cases for the Yurok Tribe, California’s largest

Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024

The Guardian: You have one life. Do you really want to spend it looking at your phone?

Business Insider: Gen Z And Millennials Should Be Thanking Boomers, Not Bashing Them

Washington Post: Texas doctors are not obligated to perform emergency abortions, court rules

The Atlantic: When Did Humans First Start Wearing Clothes?

Popular Mechanics: The U.S. Army Will Soon Get ‘Loitering Munitions,’ Better Known as Kamikaze Drones

Popular Mechanics: What It’s Like to Build a Castle From Scratch Using Only Medieval Construction Methods

Politico: Money flows into ex-San Jose mayor’s bid for House seat in Silicon Valley

SFGate: California debuts 'turbo roundabout' to fix troubled intersection near Bay Area

SFGate: Tahoe is having a historically bad snow year. Is that about to change?

AP News: Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony

NBC News: Pedestrian struck, killed by driver doing donuts in Oakland

KOMO: Neighbors reported issues with trespassing and graffiti before 3-alarm fire at vacant Seattle building

Washington Post: An Indigenous teen’s protest: Give birth on land she said belonged to her people

KPTV: Coast Guard rescues dog that fell off cliff at Ecola State Park

WGME: Protesters try to block access to Portland homeless encampment near Casco Bay Bridge ahead of sweep

CBS News : Intruder breaks into building of Colorado Supreme Court, allegedly fires shots and is arrested

USA Today: Migrants dropped at New Jersey train stations to avoid New York bus restrictions, NJ officials say

CNN: Driver allegedly left suicide note in deadly Rochester crash being investigated as domestic terrorism, source says

ABC News: Utah is no longer majority Mormon, new research says

ABC News: 22 hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning in central Utah

GMA: Over 657,000 infant formula cans recalled over potential bacteria contamination

The Guardian: Plane detained in France sheds light on Nicaragua’s role in US migrant crisis

CBS News : Russia hammers Ukraine's 2 largest cities with hypersonic missiles

The Atlantic: An Incurable Disease Is Coming for Deer

Politico: Broken promises: How marijuana legalization failed communities hit hardest by the drug war

Axios: AI may make shopping for health insurance less painful

Axios: Israeli Supreme Court strikes down Bibi's controversial judicial overhaul law

Washington Post: Look for these 9 red flags to identify food that is ultra-processed

Washington Post: Millennials have found a way to save up to buy houses: Living with mom and dad

Politico: Mental hospitals warehoused the sick. Congress wants to let them try again.

The Guardian: New gun safety laws take effect around US after over 650 mass shootings in 2023

Washington Post: All 367 passengers escape Japan Airlines plane after fiery crash; 5 coast guard dead

NPR: Israel pulls thousands of troops from Gaza, a possible sign of scaled-back offensive

NPR: From Austin to Anchorage, U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums

The Hill: Patient infections, falls spiked in hospitals owned by private equity: Study

The Guardian: Back to the land: young Italians find la dolce vita in a return to farming

NY Times : LaPierre, Longtime N.R.A. Leader, Faces Trial That Could End His Reign

The Guardian: Nearly 200 names linked to Jeffrey Epstein expected to be made public

The Guardian: Revealed: almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media, study says

BBC: Kai Zhuang: Chinese teen found alive in US after 'cyber kidnapping'

NY Times : Indiana’s Plan to Pipe In Groundwater for Microchip-Making Draws Fire

AP News: States and Congress wrestle with cybersecurity at water utilities amid renewed federal warnings

The Hill: One third of adults in new poll say Biden’s election was illegitimate

AP News: Powerful earthquakes leave at least 48 dead, destroy buildings along Japan’s western coast

Seattle Times: Oregon Newspaper Stops Printing After Embezzlement Leaves It in ‘Shambles’