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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023

SF Chronicle: Even replacing your old windows is subject to stifling red tape in San Francisco

SF Chronicle: Oxygen and 911: What researchers learned about preventing overdoses at S.F.’s Tenderloin Center

East Bay Times: Lahaina search ends with unclear death toll from fire

East Bay Times: East Bay fire district to pay nearly $100,000 settlement for wrongfully rescinding job offer over applicant’s criminal history

The Guardian: FBI agents reportedly search for Uzbeks helped into US by smuggler with IS ties

CNBC: Covid fraud: Street gang in Milwaukee allegedly stole millions to pay for murder, guns and drugs

Study Finds: United States ‘experiencing a crisis of early death’

Courthouse News Service: California AG announces new program targeting illegal cannabis operations

Courthouse News Service: EPA rolls back federal wetland protections following high court decision

CNBC: Meta says it has disrupted a massive disinformation campaign linked to Chinese law enforcement

NPR: Tropical Storm Idalia: Cars may stop working mid-evacuation due to fuel contamination

NPR: Another struggle after the Maui fires: keeping toxic runoff out of the ocean

NPR: She paid her husband's hospital bill. A year after his death, they wanted more money

The Atlantic: What Your Insurer Is Trying to Tell You About Climate Change

KCRA: Another bomb threat forces evacuations at Yolo County Library in Davis, police say

NY Times: California Tries Paying Drug Users to Stay Sober

NY Times: Preyed On by Gangs: Gun Violence Surges Within Israel’s Arab Communities

ABC News: Louisville lounge was celebrating its 'last hoorah' when 6 people were shot

NY Times: Arrest Isn’t a Good Path to Addiction Treatment

Politico: GOP silences ‘Tennessee 3’ Democrat on House floor

Politico: GOP salivates at the biggest campaign finance win since Citizens United

NY Times: America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow

CBS News : U.S. Dozens of wildfires burn in Louisiana amid scorching heat: "This is unprecedented"

Washington Post: Opinion: Babies need people, not devices. Stop giving them screen time.

Washington Post: The Christian home-schooling pioneer who helped craft a plan to siphon billions from public schools

The Guardian: Birds – and ornithologists – flock to huge rubbish dump in Spain

The Guardian: Prehistoric bird once thought extinct returns to New Zealand wild

The Guardian: ‘The burns can cook them’: searing sidewalks cause horrific injuries in US

Washington Post: A Tick-Born Epidemic in Mexico: Dogs are Key to Ending It

CNN: Idalia is now a hurricane moving toward Florida with powerful winds and life-threatening storm surge

East Bay Times: Police break up melee involving 1,000 juveniles at California mall

East Bay Times: One stabbed after violent brawls involving hundreds of young adults erupt at Emeryville mall

East Bay Times: Map: Smith River wildfire at edge of Northern California town

The Guardian: After two climate-decimated harvests, southern peach farmers wonder how to regroup

BBC: Live worm found in Australian woman's brain in world first

The Guardian: The remarkable story of how Yemen’s oil tanker disaster was averted by crowdfunding

The Guardian: China continues coal spree despite climate goals

The Guardian: Professor resigns after outrage over false claims of Native American roots; keeps benefits

The Guardian: ‘Brought to you by big oil’: US billboards call out companies for record heatwaves

The Hill: Mental health spending up 50 percent since beginning of COVID-19 pandemic: study

The Hill: Nixon-era intelligence reports on 1973 Chile coup declassified

The Hill: Sustained exposure to wildfire smoke reducing life expectancy in parts of California: report

The Hill: Opinion: No one is above the law? Biden’s Bureau of Land Management thinks it is.

The Hill: Here are the first 10 Medicare drugs the government will negotiate lower prices

KOMO : Teen diagnosed with hantavirus after exposure to mice bite, infestation in Issaquah home

The Oregonian: 2 semi trucks crash into Columbia River within hours of each other on I-84

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Grants Pass mayor to face recall election next month

KPTV: Portland farm uses corn maze to being attention to gun violence

The Oregonian: More resources expected as Oregon firefighters continue to battle several large wildfires

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Wildfire drives evacuations, trail closures in Willamette and Deschutes national forests