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Sunday, March 3, 2024

KRCR: Japanese firefighters train with Butte County's Cal Fire to learn U.S. techniques

AP News: VIDEO: 2024 Iditarod gets underway with ceremonial start in Anchorage

KRCR: Oregon father arrested for drugging tween daughter's friends during sleepover: Docs

KRCR: Hundreds of thousands of fish found dead in Klamath River

KCRA: Iceland’s Blue Lagoon evacuated ahead of ‘imminent’ volcanic eruption

Marin Independent Journal: Marin zoning changes could significantly increase housing density

SFGate: 190-mph wind gust pummels Tahoe Basin, nearly breaks record

SF Chronicle: Here’s a first look at California’s massive high-speed rail stations

SF Chronicle: Historic California dam removal, meant to help salmon, sees massive die-off

Press Democrat: Assembly District 2 race turned into an expensive blizzard of campaign ads, replete with mud slinging

Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024

The Atlantic: Why Are We Still Flu-ifying COVID?

The Atlantic: How Happy Couples Argue: They don’t try to control each other. They try to control themselves.

The Telegraph : Obesity now greater risk to global health than hunger, study finds

AP News: IRS launches crackdown on 125,000 wealthy ‘non-filers’

NPR: Family Dollar is fined over $40 million due to a rodent infestation in its warehouse

NY Times: Alcohol-Related Deaths Surge to Nearly 500 a Day, C.D.C. Says

Business Insider: Homebuyers need to earn 80% more than they did pre-COVID to comfortably afford a house in this market, Zillow says

East Bay Times: Ferocious blizzard with “life-threatening conditions” hits Sierra Nevada as Tahoe residents hunker down for up to 12 feet of snow

Business Insider: Wall Street wants your home

BBC: Watch: Rescuers use therml imaging to find missing five-year-old in swamp

BBC: Wendy's denies plans for surge pricing after backlash

BBC: Texas battles second-biggest wildfire in US history

BBC: Shohei Ohtani: Baseball superstar announces marriage to Japanese woman

AP News: What will win at the Oscars? AP’s film writers set their predictions

BBC: More than 30,000 killed in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says

NY Times: China Has Thousands of Navalnys, Hidden From the Public

NY Times: In Taking Up Trump’s Immunity Claim, Supreme Court Bolstered His Delay Strategy

AP News: Shasta County ditched its vote counting machines. Now a supporter faces a recall election

Smithsonian Magazine: A Japanese American Incarceration Camp in Colorado Is America’s Newest National Park

AP News: The future is now: 16- and 17-year-olds win the right to vote in local elections in a Vermont town

Smithsonian Magazine: The World’s Smallest Vertebrate Is a Tiny Brazilian Frog, Study Finds

Smithsonian Magazine: 7,000 Humpback Whales May Have Starved to Death During the ‘Blob’ Heatwave

CBS News : U.S. Multiple Mississippi prisons controlled by gangs and violence, DOJ report says

CBS News : U.S. Food packaging containing toxic "forever chemicals" no longer sold in U.S., FDA says

MSN News: Deadly bird flu discovered on Antarctica, threatening penguin colonies

Washington Post: The ‘greenest’ car in America might surprise you

Consumer Reports: These Video Doorbells Have Terrible Security. Amazon Sells Them Anyway.

Washington Post: Don’t toss out old stuffed animals. They can have a second life.

The Guardian: Idaho halts man’s execution after eight attempts to find vein for lethal injection

The Guardian: ‘We don’t need air con’: how Burkina Faso builds schools that stay cool in extreme heat

Courthouse News Service: Federal judge skeptical of effort to block nearly 200 oil and gas sales in US West

The Oregonian: Lake Oswego dad accused of drugging girls at sleepover

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Another tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon’s drug recriminalization bill sails through key committee, heads for House vote

LA Times: California seized enough fentanyl last year to kill everyone in the world ‘nearly twice over’

LA Times: Billy clubs? Butterfly knives? Legal shift on 2nd Amendment affects more than just guns

The Guardian: 'More good days than bad': the Ukrainian refugees rebuilding their lives in California

The Guardian: Risotto crisis: the fight to save Italy’s beloved dish from extinction

The Guardian: Trump gave top US firms staggering tax cuts, with some paying $0 or less – report

KTLA: Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano erupts 13 times in a single day