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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023

The Guardian: Scores of dead pilot whales found on Tasmanian beach in ‘confronting scenes’

NPR: This physics professor ran 3,000 miles across America in record time

NPR: A forgotten trove of rare video games could now be worth six figures

NPR: Supreme Court conservatives seem likely to axe SEC enforcement powers

The Atlantic: Ammon Bundy Has Disappeared

NY Times: Rare Giant Rat Is Photographed Alive for First Time

Seattle Times: Inside the effort to truck sockeye salmon past Lake Washingto

Washington Post: Opinion: The Trump dictatorship

Washington Post: How to become an air marshal, the most secretive job in the sky

NY Times: Pickup or Lunar Lander? Tesla’s Cybertruck Enters a Crowded Market.

Washington Post: Editorial: Half a century later, Kissinger’s legacy is still up for debate

NY Times: How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Deputies Got Away With Years of Brutality

Courthouse News Service: Ohio Supreme Court suspends attorney for flinging ‘feces-filled Pringles can’ from his car

Courthouse News Service: Salvation Army rehab center participants ask Seventh Circuit to revive forced labor claims

Courthouse News Service: Danes wrangle with creeping numbers of pill-addicted teenagers

Courthouse News Service: Astronomers discover new six-planet solar system in rare harmony

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Can little actions bring big joy? Researchers find ‘micro-acts’ can boost well-being

Oregon Public Broadcasting: As Eugene’s emergency room closes, the fire department plans to step up

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon’s legal psilocybin clinics draw hundreds — mostly from out of state

The Oregonian: US moves to protect wolverines as climate change melts their mountain refuges, threatens extinction

NY Times: Airlines Race Toward a Future of Powering Their Jets With Corn

The Guardian: Death of boy, 16, at sawmill highlights rise of child labour in US

The Guardian: ‘You’re only as sick as your secrets’: New Orleans clergy abuse bankruptcy is uniquely acrimonious

The Oregonian: Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems open to argument that could upend regulatory agencies

The Guardian: Next generation of billionaires collect more wealth from inheritance than work, says UBS

The Guardian: Pence’s son reportedly convinced him to stand up to Trump over January 6

Washington Post: You can take your dog to movies and bars. But does he want to go?

Washington Post: Rare lobster found in Maine is two genders and two colors

The Guardian: New Yorkers feel betrayed as police radio dispatches end: ‘You’d hear about nine shootings a day’

Huffington Post: 2 Republicans In Arizona Indicted After Trying To Delay Election Results

Politico: India implicated in New York assassination plot, prosecutors say

Politico: The oil baron running the climate talks — and the US envoy who’s had his back

CNN: New billionaire heirs overtake self-made ones as $5.2 trillion wealth transfer begins

CNN: US Coast Guard leaders long concealed a critical report about racism, hazing and sexual misconduct

The Guardian: The new ‘scramble for Africa’: how a UAE sheikh quietly made carbon deals for forests bigger than UK

The Guardian: ‘No work and no olives’: harvest rots as West Bank farmers cut off from trees

The Guardian: Shane MacGowan, Pogues songwriter and Irish music legend, dies aged 65

BBC: Russian court bans 'LGBT movement'

The Guardian: Hamas claims responsibility for Jerusalem shooting which killed three

BBC: Three killed in Jerusalem shooting hours after Gaza ceasefire renewed

AP News: Families reunite with 17 Thai hostages freed by Hamas at homecoming at Bangkok airport

LA Times: L.A. County says hate crimes surged in 2022, with nearly 75% of them violent

AP News: Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024

The Hill: Half of adults in new poll support Israel’s action in Gaza, 45 percent disapprove

LA Times: A California dry farmer’s juicy apples show how agriculture can be done with less water

AP News: Biden administration proposes biggest changes to lead pipe rules in more than three decades

LA Times: As teen suicide spikes, school policies may be making things worse

LA Times: Palestinians face beatings, fires and drones from Israeli settlers in West Bank

AP News: Pressure builds to eliminate fossil fuel use as oil executive, under fire, takes over climate talks

LA Times: How tonight’s Newsom-DeSantis faceoff offers major upsides for both governors