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Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025

The Hill: Schumer stares down progressive fury over handling of shutdown

The Hill: Why a handful of Democratic senators decided to end the shutdown

KCRA: California puts the brakes on e-bike vouchers, transfers $18M to 'Clean Cars' trade-in program

CBS Sacramento: 4 inmates hospitalized after riot breaks out at Folsom prison

Action News Now: FABRIC Mass Timber planning California's first large-scale mass timber factory in Redding

KTLA: Overturned bus with 36 aboard narrowly misses cliff in San Bernardino Mountains

KTLA: Vietnam vet, 79, who shot, killed naked intruder in L.A. speaks out

CBS News: Sanders calls deal to end government shutdown a "disaster"

CBS Bay Area: Bay Area mobile home park residents worried about unintended effects of new housing law

CBS News: Botulism outbreak tied to ByHeart baby formula has sickened at least 15 infants, officials say

East Bay Times: Central Coast beach covered with intricate sand art murals

East Bay Times: Opinion: The Trump administration’s H-1B visa price hike will stifle innovation

East Bay Times: History of taxes in California is interesting, odd

East Bay Times: For Bay Area, more rain coming as another atmospheric river approaches

East Bay Times: Trump commuted his sentence once, now a weed kingpin will serve 27 months for new crimes

SF Gate: Monterey: It was once California's top pot-producing county. Now it's a bust.

SF Gate: Calif. driver covers 173 miles during CHP chase, escapes into Mexico

Marin Independent Journal: MMWD launches salmon tracking dashboard

Marin Independent Journal: Four arrested at UC Berkeley Turning Point USA event

Courthouse News Service: Alaska conservation groups sue over unlimited bear killings in southwestern Alaska

SF Gate: 'Nightmare is over': Trump pardons Grand Teton trail runner who took a shortcut

Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025

The Guardian: Margaret Sullivan: The tragic change a single year has made in America

BBC: Willpower doesn't exist: Advice from BBC doctors busting wellness myths

BBC: The 'Heroes of Kharkiv' who saved 48 children from kindergarten hit by Russian drone

The Guardian: Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows

The Guardian: A Hawaiian princess bequeathed her inheritance to her people. The schools they set up are being sued

OPB: From legend to relative: Indigenous Oregonians share Bigfoot’s true spirit

AP News: Shooting at a historically Black university’s homecoming fest in Pennsylvania kills 1 and wounds 6

KRCR: Rhino horns, 'thousands of pieces' of elephant ivory seized in California

KRCR: Shasta County supervisors reject grant for True North Behavioral Health Campus

KTLA: 3 convicted for illegal BASE jumping in Yosemite

CBS News : California wildlife officials kill 4 wolves after record livestock attacks in Sierra Valley

CBS News : Trump hikes tariffs on Canada by another 10% in response to Ontario's anti-tariff ad

KRON: Dozens of kayakers take anti-ICE message to the water

East Bay Times: California’s 2025 commercial Dungeness crab season delayed to protect whales

East Bay Times: PG&E sees major growth potential in San Jose as electricity demand rises

SF Gate: Calif. senator makes last-ditch effort to save rural hospital

SF Gate: National Park Service has missed out on $25 million

SF Gate: Suspects arrested over the theft of crown jewels from Paris' Louvre museum

SF Gate: Rescues are rising on one of Hawaii's most dangerous trails

Marin Independent Journal: Golden Gate Bridge district approves $1B in seismic retrofit work

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025

The Atlantic: Trump’s Partisan Redistribution of Wealth

The Atlantic: Why I Run

SF Gate: 'Total devastation': Deadly fire kills 1, destroys historic Hawaii hotel

ABC News: Washington rescuers climb through 5 miles of snow to save stranded hikers: Sheriff

ABC News: Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling

NPR: How an Oregon writer finds fulfillment in picking up litter

SF Gate: 'A great deal of bravery': Son rescues father taken by Humboldt County sneaker wave

SF Gate: Donations just reopened Muir Woods National Monument

The Hill: GOP senator blocks Democratic bill to pay all federal employees during shutdown