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Sunday, April 7, 2024

Chicago Tribune: Do they still make pinball machines? They do, in a huge new factory near O’Hare — with most selling to the 1 percent

East Bay Times: Live in a single-family home? This Bay Area company wants to give you $100,000 for the yard space you’re not using

East Bay Times: Two arrested in brazen trailer theft from Orinda’s Wilder Park

East Bay Times: California bill could expose what Title IX lawsuit calls ‘shocking’ gender inequities in how college athletes are paid

KRON: Bay Area city ranks as the healthiest city in America

SFGate: International leaders condemn Ecuador after police break into the Mexican Embassy in Quito

SFGate: Hordes of pelicans take over Southern California beach

SFGate: Michelin-rated restaurants clamor for wasabi from this Bay Area farm

SFGate: Terpenes: Groundbreaking study cracks one of pot's greatest mysteries

SF Chronicle: Dog attacks are soaring in California. I just became one of the statistics

Thursday, April 4, 2024

The Guardian: Robert F Kennedy campaign calls January 6 rioters ‘activists’ in email

The Guardian: ‘Everything is still moving’: shock and grief take hold in Taiwan

NY Times : A Rising Star of Italian Violin Making Is a 32-Year-Woman Old From South Korea

Courthouse News Service: San Francisco nonprofit asks federal judge to expedite proposed listing of endangered local fish

Courthouse News Service: Biden threatens change in US-Israel policy

Smithsonian Magazine: Six New York Inmates Successfully Sue to Watch the Total Solar Eclipse

SF Chronicle: Stanford University names new president after resignation of predecessor

Washington Post: How a steel ball protected Taiwan’s tallest skyscraper in an earthquake

The Guardian: Diabetes drug may slow progression of Parkinson’s, say researchers

AP News: Ford to delay production of new electric pickup and large SUV as US EV sales growth slows

The Guardian: Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016

Politico: US states are cutting off Chinese citizens and companies from land ownership

NY Times : ‘Carefluencers’ Are Helping Older Loved Ones, and Posting About It

AP News: Video: Cleanup begins at Los Angeles ‘trash house’

Politico: JK Rowling, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk are fuming over Scotland’s hate crime law. Here’s why.

BBC: Why this amateur scientist measured snowfall for 50 years

The Guardian: ‘I will never join the army’: ultra-Orthodox Jews vow to defy Israeli court orders

The Guardian: Amazon increased US plastic packaging despite global phase-out, report says

AP News: California schools forced to compete with fast food industry for workers after minimum wage hike

AP News: Food aid charity demands independent investigation of Israeli strikes

The Hill: Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ lurk in feminine products

The Hill: Texas National Guard member charged with human smuggling

The Hill: The reckoning over puberty blockers has arrived

BBC: Florida takes centre stage in US abortion battle

BBC: Truck crash spills live salmon into wrong Oregon river

The Oregonian: $6 million worth of Oregon property forfeited as part of black-market marijuana trafficking ring

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Forest agencies seek tribal inclusion in policymaking. Indigenous leaders are holding them accountable

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Grants Pass v. Johnson: Here's what led to key homelessness case before high court

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Meet the remarkable Oregon horsewomen of the ‘Hen Party’

LA Times: Thanks to termite tents, California is top U.S. emitter of a planet-warming pesticide

LA Times: Groups seek to ban large-scale animal farming in Sonoma County

LA Times: Deputies kick down bathroom door, fatally shoot armed teen in midst of mental health crisis

KTLA: Easter Sunday heist in Southern California nets thieves $30M in cash

KTLA: Disney shares new details about ‘Avatar’ experience slated to come to Disneyland Resort

KRCR: Oregon salmon accidentally populate wrong river after truck carrying them crashes

KRCR: Corning police seize $1.3M worth of marijuana on Easter Sunday

KRCR: Siskiyou sheriffs arrest 2 after nearly 10 pounds of meth found hidden in empty cooler

KRON: Viral video: Woman listening to Beyoncé gets car window smashed at stoplight in Vallejo

East Bay Times: 3 hospitalized in dog attack at California home

SFGate: California malls as we know them are dying. Here's what comes next.