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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023

BBC: Israel Gaza: Hamas raped and mutilated women on 7 October, BBC hears

NPR: One Ohio Appalachian community is turning its pollution into paint

NPR: Can we make Vermont's forests more like old forests, faster?

NY Times : Fate of Billions for Opioid Victims From Sacklers Rests With Supreme Court

The Guardian: On the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, a threat looms

CNN: YouTuber gets 6 months in federal prison for staging small plane crash

Texas Monthly: Texas Ranks Last in Personal Freedoms, According to the Libertarian CATO Institute

Texas Monthly: The G.O.A.T. of Landscape Management? Goats.

The Guardian: Teens need malls. Malls need crowds. Why are they pushing kids away?

The Guardian: ‘A matter of survival’: India’s unstoppable need for air conditioners

NY Times : Why Doctors and Pharmacists Are in Revolt

NY Times : Retirement Without a Net: The Plight of America’s Aging Farmworkers

NY Times : How WFH Helped Make Sacramento a Great Restaurant City

CBS News : Patients expected Profemur artificial hips to last. Then they snapped in half.

Washington Post: What a teaspoon less of salt did for blood pressure in study

NY Times : Scientists in Discredited Alcohol Study Will Not Advise U.S. on Drinking Guidelines

The Guardian: Nigerian army drone strike accident kills at least 85 civilians

Washington Post: Candidate loses by single vote after he didn’t cast a ballot for himself

Washington Post: Math scores for U.S. students hit all-time low on international exam

Reuters: US crypto industry lobby spending on track for new record in 2023

Reuters: Life insurers binge on US financing aimed at helping housing

The Guardian: Members of Texas Republican party free to associate with Nazi sympathizers

Reuters: Buildings evacuated as quake rattles Philippine capital

Washington Post: After long banning polio campaigns, Taliban declares war on the disease

Washington Post: Conga line of intense atmospheric rivers to drench Pacific Northwest; flooding possible

Smithsonian Magazine: Unraveling Ulysses S. Grant’s Complex Relationship With Slavery

SciTechDaily: Reviving Minds: Implant Restores Cognitive Functions After Brain Injury

USA Today: This couple is fighting $15,000 in taxes. Their case could cost Washington trillions

The Guardian: Dozens of independent abortion clinics closed in 2023 post-Roe, study finds

BBC: Republican field shrinks to four for final presidential debate

BBC: COP28: Record number of fossil fuel delegates at climate talks

The Guardian: I reversed my type 2 diabetes. Here’s how I did it

The Guardian: Revealed: Sellafield nuclear site has leak that could pose risk to public

The Guardian: US breaks record for most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders

The Hill: Israel intensifies strikes in southern Gaza, hitting second largest city

The Hill: An anti-aging drug for dogs is in the works: Here’s what we know

Courthouse News Service: Treasury creates new strike force as US and China pursue crackdown on illicit fentanyl trafficking

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Pilots flying tourists over national parks face new rules

The Guardian: It looks festive, but invasive holly is infesting NW forests

The Oregonian: Ammon Bundy ‘in hiding’ after losing Idaho home, websites in legal battle with hospital

The Oregonian: Why Portland has failed to open a desperately needed new sobering center as addiction soars

KPTV: 5 family members dead in apparent murder-suicide in Vancouver, WA

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Flood watch issued for Northwest Oregon, Southwest Washington

Courthouse News Service: Study finds wealth surged during pandemic

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Sex trafficking in the Northwest is a problem in plain sight

Courthouse News Service: San Mateo jail snail-mail ban draws First Amendment challenge

Courthouse News Service: Two decades of air quality gains in the western US wiped out by wildfires

AP News: The Supreme Court is taking up a case that could rule out a tax on wealth favored by some Democrats

AP News: California faculty at largest US university system launch strike for better pay

LA Times: Biting, kicking, hurling blocks. Preschools struggle with California law limiting expulsion