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Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024

Courthouse News Service: Immigration courts clearing cases at 50% higher rate amid backlog

The Guardian: More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings

The Guardian: Arctic zombie viruses in Siberia could spark terrifying new pandemic, scientists warn

Courthouse News Service: Former NRA lobbyist ‘disgusted’ by Wayne LaPierre’s spending habits

AP News: 6-legged dog adjusts to life on 4 paws after surgery

Courthouse News Service: Northern Ireland on brink amid megastrikes

LA Times: UC enrolls record number of California undergrads in fall 2023, cuts out-of-state students

LA Times: Burst pipe at oil refinery spews petroleum mixture onto street

East Bay Times: First crab hauls come ashore, but Northern California fishermen frustrated by $3 price point

East Bay Times: End of a Bay Area era? Pittsburg’s steel mill idles amid sale to Japanese company

KTLA: Burst water pipe causes landslide, closes roads in Calabasas

LA Times: California offers affordable loans again to first-time homebuyers, with a catch

KTLA: Romanian mob tied to Southern California card skimming scheme

KTLA: 13-year-old girl found in Long Beach was abducted from Texas

KRON: Reformed mobster went after ‘one last score’ when he stole Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from ‘Oz’

KRON: Non-binary runner from SF ineligible for prize money after winning NYC marathon

Press Democrat: Why there’s growing concern about human trafficking in Sonoma County

SF Chronicle: Thieves steal $20K in trees from Oakland bonsai garden at Lake Merritt

SF Chronicle: This rich Bay Area city is fighting a plan for 40 new homes. The developer’s solution: An even bigger project

SF Chronicle: ‘Hey Zach’: Church extends unique invitation to thief who stole Pride flag

SF Chronicle: Hit Netflix show ‘You Are What You Eat’ started with this groundbreaking Stanford study

SF Chronicle: These were California’s 15 most popular campgrounds in 2023

SFGate: Santa Clara swimming community left puzzled after swim center's sudden closure

SFGate: Bay Area DA admits 6-year-old's playground fentanyl overdose never happened

Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024

BBC: A 75km hike through 'the Graveyard of the Pacific" in B.C.

The Atlantic: The Culture War Tearing American Environmentalism Apart

NY Times: Spelman, a Historically Black Women’s College, Receives $100 Million Gift

NY Times: They Abducted a River in California. And It Wasn’t Even a Crime.

Washington Post: Boost your brain health by sleeping in total darkness

Washington Post: Judge in Trump Georgia case orders hearing on Fani Willis misconduct claims

Courthouse News Service: Why ‘viability’ is dividing the abortion rights movement

Courthouse News Service: Leukemia from sunscreen lawsuit will not be dismissed

Courthouse News Service: California judge rules state can’t issue bonds to finance delta tunnel project

Courthouse News Service: U exported 32 million tonnes of waste in 2022

Courthouse News Service: Feds slam law enforcement failures during response to Uvalde school shooting

The Guardian: Nova Scotia man charged with starting province’s largest-ever wildfire

The Guardian: ‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways

The Guardian: Richard Simmons disavows biopic: ‘I have never given my permission for this movie’

BBC: Pope Francis says sexual pleasure is 'a gift from God'

The Guardian: Supreme court hears key case that could strangle power of US federal agencies

The Guardian: California governor vows to block proposed ban on tackle football for kids

The Guardian: Carbon released by bottom trawling ‘too big to ignore’, says study

BBC: Sheryl Sandberg to step down from Meta board

BBC: Arnold Schwarzenegger detained over EU tax for luxury watch he's donating

The Guardian: Local newspapers are withering under destructive owners. We should worry

The Guardian: ‘Good boy’: dog saves Philadelphia neighborhood from potentially explosive gas leak

The Guardian: Generic drugs in the US are too cheap to be sustainable, experts say

AP News: Fueled by unprecedented border crossings, a record 3 million cases clog US immigration courts

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Overdraft fees could drop to as low as $3 under new Biden proposal

AP News: Instant is in, fancy is out. Nothing stays the same for long in the world of home-brewed coffee