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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Thursday, Jan. 2

LA Times: Cannabis cafes, A.I. and parking: How new California laws could affect you in 2025

KPIX: 4.7 earthquake strikes Northern California's Lake County on New Year's Day

East Bay Times: How a flying ferry could help solve Tahoe’s traffic problem

Sierra Daily News: Rainbow Family Gathering member files $25,000 claim against Lassen County

Sierra Daily News: Those real-looking FasTrak texts? They’re really a scam

SF Chronicle: More than 2,000 pounds of illegally caught fish seized from boat at S.F. pier

SF Gate: Why was a gigantic Virgin Mary statue built on a California's Mt. Shasta?

AP News: Firework mortars, gas cannisters stuffed inside Tesla that exploded outside Trump’s Las Vegas hotel

AP News: US Army veteran who killed 15 in New Orleans attack was inspired by the Islamic State group

East Bay Times: Monterey County hiker rescued in 16-hour recovery operation

East Bay Times: 10 tips from experts to help you change your relationship with money in 2025

Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024

The Guardian: The Walmart Effect: Making communities poorer

The Atlantic: What the Left Refused to Understand About Women’s Sports

Washington Post: The oldest animal ever found could reveal whether a crucial ocean current will collapse

The Guardian: ‘The forest will survive’: the volunteers saving Kharkiv’s war-charred woodland

The Guardian: Virginia man accused of amassing largest homemade explosives cache ever found by FBI

SF Gate: San Francisco counterculture legend who invented bell-bottom jeans dies at 84

Washington Post: Ozempic economics: How GLP-1s will disrupt the economy in 2025

Reuters: US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident'

BBC: Bat-watching, beach explorations and 'sniff' walks: How nature can provide a tonic for loneliness

Axios: Severe storms threatening U.S. South unleash tornadoes, kill 4 people

The Oregonian: Downed power line sparks fires, shocks three firefighters and another person in Vancouver

The Guardian: Netherlands to open archive on people accused of wartime Nazi collaboration

The Guardian: ‘This is medicine’: inside the psilocybin retreat for US first responders

BBC: Madoff fraud victims get $4.3bn as fund completes payouts

BBC: What we know about US work visas Trump supporters are clashing over

The Cool Down: Scientists make concerning discovery while studying autopsied brains

Phys.Org: Microplastics found in multiple human organ tissues correlated with lesions

KCRA: Woman robbed at gunpoint in Folsom movie theater, police say

AP News: Nearly all of Puerto Rico is without power on New Year’s Eve

The Guardian: Sixty-mile drag mark found near damaged Baltic Sea cable, says Finland

The Guardian: Weather tracker: Giant waves bring rare surfing event to Hawaii

The Guardian: LeBron James at 40: NBA’s brightest star stares down the dying of the light

The Oregonian: Historic images of Native Americans by a Swiss artist find their way back to North Dakota

AP News: Boy killed in Colorado reservation shooting was in bed when he was hit

AP News: A butterfly collector in Africa with more than 4.2 million seeks to share them for the future

AP News: The Taliban say they will close all NGOs employing Afghan women

AP News: Shooting at NYC store wounds 6, including a mom and her 12-year-old daughter

AP News: Senator’s son sentenced to 28 years for killing a North Dakota deputy during a car chase

NPR: Treasury says Chinese hackers remotely accessed documents in 'major' cyber incident

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon Providence health care workers announce strike

OPB: Residents, farmers take Oregon back to court over chicken farm in Linn County

Modesto Bee: Over 3,000 people in need get Christmas meal, presents at Modesto Gospel Mission event

KRCR: Redding business loses over $35,000 in saws during post-Christmas burglary

Sacramento Bee: Homelessness reaches a new high nationally. How does the rate compare to California?

KOIN: Federal agencies to update ‘flawed’ study on Columbia, Snake River dams

KOIN: Rescue team’s gear stolen hours after finding men who died Sasquatch hunting

KRCR: Seattle residents demand action after latest shootout targets Maserati in broad daylight

KRCR: Humboldt County officer rescues dog hit by car, sprayed by skunk

Sacramento Bee: PG&E says rates will stabilize next year after a record 2024 of California rate increases