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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

The Oregonian: Portlanders are lining up for upscale members-only social club, Soho House

The Oregonian: Joann, the fabric and crafts retailer, files for bankruptcy as consumers cut back on pandemic hobbies

The Guardian: ‘Someone will die’: more warnings issued about drug-fuelled Enhanced Games

Washington Post: Supreme Court hears free speech case that united the NRA and the ACLU

BBC: Ukraine war: Thousands of children to be evacuated from Belgorod after strikes

BBC: Is TikTok really a danger to the West?

BBC: The US just announced an asbestos ban. What took so long?

The Guardian: Revealed: documents shed light on shadowy US far-right fraternal order

AP News: The spring equinox is here. What does that mean?

AP News: Migrants lacking passports must now submit to facial recognition to board flights in US

USA Today: Mother who left baby at home for 10-day vacation gets life for murder

AP News: Pedal coast-to-coast without using a road? New program helps connect trails across the US

AP News: Pro-Trump Michigan attorney arrested after hearing in DC over leaking Dominion documents

The Guardian: ‘I’m back!’: how Guardian readers reclaimed their brains and cut their screen times by 40%

The Guardian: ‘Water is worth more than gold’: eco-activist Esteban Polanco on why violence won’t stop him

The Guardian: US Kleenex plant contaminated drinking water with PFAS, lawsuit says

American Heart Assoc.: 8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death

The Hill: Intermittent fasting tied to a higher risk of cardiovascular death, research shows

The Hill: Trump lawyers: Securing full $454 million bond ‘practical impossibility’ in NY fraud case

NPR: From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food piles up

KQED: Solar Eclipse 2024: How to See the Partial Eclipse in the Bay Area on April 8

KQED: Workers Lost Millions to California's Worst Known Wage Thief. And He's Still in Business

NPR: RBG award ceremony canceled amid controversy over recipients

The Guardian: Hong Kong lawmakers pass new measures to quash dissent

The Hill: 500-pound mound of pythons found in Florida marsh

Modesto Bee: $600k in Camaros, Corvettes recovered after California task force raids Central Valley chop shop

Yahoo News: A quarter of the Califrnia's homeless are Black, study says — experts say more affordable housing needed

Sacramento Bee: California lawmakers propose billions in cuts to address looming budget deficit

LA Times: California’s home insurer of last resort sees enrollment surge, raising concerns over its finances

LA Times: A little girl’s family wants to know who slaughtered her pet goat. Shasta District Fair officials won’t say

LA Times: After violent protest, controversial pro-Israeli speaker comes back to UC Berkeley

LA Times: She sold his Encino home out from under him for $1.5 million. Then he killed himself

KTLA: 6th grade girl brutally attacked by classmate at Southern California school

East Bay Times: 2 men admit to killing protected wild burros in Mojave Desert

Courthouse News Service: Supreme Court keeps Texas immigration law on hold for now

LA Times: UC stirs furious debate over what high school math skills are needed to succeed in college

East Bay Times: Good news for gray whales: “Unusual Mortality Event” declared over

East Bay Times: Two attorneys injured in Contra Costa courtroom stabbing frenzy during murder trial

Press Democrat: Santa Rosa woman, wife of Sonoma County sheriff, sentenced in DUI crash into home

Press Democrat: Margaret Grade, Manka's Inverness Lodge owner, dies at 72

KRON: Ex-Contra Costa County fire battalion chief admits to stealing $46K from fire department

Marin Independent Journal: State accelerates plan to empty San Quentin’s death row

KRCR: New Garberville hospital and fire response equipment to be purchased from $1.16M grant

KRCR: Klamath undamming ahead of schedule while county officials find heavy metal contamination

KRCR: Burglary suspect arrested after homeowner's brave escape in McKinleyville

SF Chronicle: California proposes rule that would change how insurers assess wildfire risk

SF Chronicle: Nurse’s union presses UCSF for patient care details amid $100 million purchase of two S.F. hospitals

SF Chronicle: California policy protecting major rivers upheld in long-awaited court decision

SF Chronicle: Charts show UC admissions rates for every high school in California

SF Chronicle: S.F. corruption scandal: Former PUC chief Harlan Kelly gets prison time for fraud conviction