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Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Water quality discussed after completion of Klamath reservoir drawdown

East Bay Times: Antioch library will repopen with armed security

KRON: 2 officers, 1 first responder shot and killed at the scene of a domestic call in Minnesota

KSBW: Future of landlines is more than about tech upgrades for SC Mountain residents, it's a safety issue

Siskiyou News: Klamath River Dam Removal – Pilot For Multi-Billion Dollar Business Model?

LA Times: They falsely said USPS packages were lost or damaged, collecting $2.3 million. Now brothers face prison

East Bay Times: Native Americans hope new laws push Bay Area museums and universities to return ancestral remains

Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024

Courthouse News Service: Americans overwhelmingly agree government mishandling border crisis, survey data shows

Courthouse News Service: Airports nationwide receive $970 million in federal grants to improve terminals

The Atlantic: Why the Most Educated People in America Fall for Anti-Semitic Lies

AP News: Caitlin Clark of Iowa breaks NCAA women’s career scoring record

AP News: FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company

Digg: Steph Curry Banks In A Ridiculous Full Court Shot From The Tunnel

SF Chronicle: S.F. to host Pokémon World Championships for the first time in 10 years

The Hill: FBI informant at heart of GOP’s Biden bribery allegations indicted over false statements

Rolling Stone: Paul McCartney’s Long-Lost Bass, Missing for Over 50 Years, Has Been Found

Rolling Stone: Sex, Cocaine, and Antisemitism: Humboldt's Judge Kreis Hit With Monster Complaint

USA Today: 3 people questioned after 4 students shot in parking lot of Atlanta high school

Washington Post: Scientists warn of looming ‘ecosystem collapse’ in Louisiana’s wetlands

Washington Post: The plastics industry would like a word with your kids

MJ Biz Daily: Advocates celebrate inclusion of hemp in USDA’s Census of Agriculture

The Guardian: ‘Polar express’: passengers hit out at cold conditions on Scottish train line

Washington Post: Senate poised to pass biggest piece of tech regulation in decades

NY Times: Mysterious Pattern in a Cave Is Oldest Rock Art Found in Patagonia

NPR: Chicago will drop controversial ShotSpotter gunfire detection system

NY Times: What Scientists Learned from the Oldest Wild Platypus Ever Found

The Guardian: ‘Just doing the right thing’: two women find missing US child after Amber alert

The Guardian: Nearly 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real, study finds

NY Times: After Shutting Down, These Golf Courses Went Wild

The Guardian: What will Spain look like when it runs out of water? Barcelona is giving us a glimpse

The Hill: Photos: Massive endangered Fin whale washes up on Oregon shore

AP News: Student, 18, charged with plotting deadly shooting at his Southern California high school

The Guardian: ‘It’s almost carbon-negative’: how hemp became a surprise building material

BBC: US to consider mass release of detained migrants over budget woes

The Guardian: US becoming ‘factory farming nation’: key takeaways from the agriculture census

NY Times: The Most Profitable Places to Own a Short-Term Rental

Business Insider: Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see

AP News: Palestinians living in US will be shielded from deportation, the White House says

AP News: The Biden administration announces $970 million in grants for airport improvements across the US

BBC: Kansas City celebration turns to scene of chaos after shooting

BBC: Coming face to face with inmates in El Salvador's mega-jail

NPR: Americans who live alone report depression at higher rates, but social support helps

The Guardian: Hackers got nearly 7 million people’s data from 23andMe. The firm blamed users in ‘very dumb’ move

NPR: Could vacant office spaces across the U.S. be the solution to a national problem?

The Guardian: Putin says he prefers Biden to Trump and mocks Tucker Carlson’s questions

AP News: Black Catholic nuns: A compelling, long-overlooked history

KRCR: Investigation underway for fatal house fire in Happy Camp

The Oregonian: Oregon fishermen, tribes angered by surprise announcement on offshore wind energy areas

The Oregonian: Dutch Bros will spend up to $41 million moving some corporate jobs from Oregon to Arizona

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon continues to lose farmland, some advocates say that raises red flags