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Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023

SFGate: Invasive species reported in Bay Area fish hatchery for the first time

SFGate: Oakland man discovers rare animal in trash bin

SFGate: SFDA Brooke Jenkins deletes post claiming 'All Out for Gaza' rally was 'pro-Hamas'

SFGate: United making revolutionary change to its boarding procedure

East Bay Times: Sunnyvale-based LinkedIn cuts over 600 jobs in second round of layoffs this year

East Bay Times: Boyfriend arrested after a Del Norte sheriff’s deputy found dead at her home

East Bay Times: SUBSCRIBER ONLY Historic Big Sur property, once owned by William Randolph Hearst, to get new owners, including tribe

Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023

The Atlantic: California Has A Uniquely Terrible New DEI Policy for Community Colleges

NY Times: California Moves Closer to Imposing First Limits on Groundwater Use

Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023

KATV: Officials evacuate Idaho town of around 10K people after gas line explodes at rural intersection

Washington Post: Argentina wildfires create apocalyptic scene of blazes at city’s edge

NY Times : Illicit E-Cigarettes Flood Stores as F.D.A. Struggles to Combat Imports

Fortune: Meet the uber-rich living a ‘frugal life’ like Warren Buffett: They cut their own hair, mend their clothes and ‘avoid Starbucks like the plague’

CNN: Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack

NY Times : F.D.A. Issues Warning Over Misuse of Ketamine

NY Times : Energy Firms, Green Groups and Others Reach Deal on Solar Farms

AP News: An Oklahoma man used pandemic relief funds to have his name cleared of murder

The Guardian: UK food regulators slash recommended dose of CBD over health risks

The Guardian: Biden under pressure to refreeze $6bn in Iranian oil money after Hamas attack

AP News: For Indigenous people, solar eclipse often about reverence and tradition, not revelry

AP News: Federal judge won’t block suspension of right to carry guns in some New Mexico parks, playgrounds

NPR: California creates nation's first 'Ebony Alert' to find missing Black children

The Guardian: Climate researcher who refused to fly back from research trip is sacked

NPR: Climate rules are coming for corporate America

AP News: After troubled start, New York is shaking up its legal marijuana market with new competitors

AP News: Auto workers escalate strike, walking out at Ford’s largest factory

BBC: Gaza hospitals risk turning into morgues, Red Cross says

The Guardian: Deforestation in Bolivia has jumped by 32% in a year. What is going on?

BBC: Egypt warned Israel days before Hamas struck, US committee chairman says

NPR: She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her testimony was explosive

NPR: Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners show the beauty — and precarity — of nature

The Hill: House Democrats demand answers on year-long Adderall shortage

The Guardian: Revealed: allegations of abuse and captivity without pay at UAE’s lucrative recruitment agencies

AP News: Black student suspended over his hairstyle to be sent to an alternative education program

AP News: Hollywood studios break off strike talks with actors, who slam ‘bullying tactics’

The Guardian: Record-setting US cave diver dies during underwater excursion

KIEM: Local Rabbi shares a message about the unfolding events of the Israel-Gaza War

AP News: After a hard fight to clear militants, Israeli soldiers find a scene of destruction, slain children

The Guardian: At least 25 Americans killed in Hamas attack, Antony Blinken says

LA Times: How exactly did the Airbnb ‘tenant from hell’ get away with living rent-free for 540 days?

Fresno Bee: Food truck owners battle Chowchilla’s new $100-a-day fee, say it has ‘racial undertones’

Fresno Bee: In a record year for Fresno County agriculture, there’s a new crop in the top spot

LA Times: California bans controversial ‘excited delirium’ diagnosis

LA Times: They pick up dates in freezing ice baths — and prefer it to flirting in bars

LA Times: Spiders, spiders everywhere? Tarantula mating season starts early amid threats to arachnids

LA Times: Created in California: Packaging pleasure, one sex toy at a time

KCRA: Former NFL player Sergio Brown taken into custody in connection with his mother’s death, source says

KCRA: 2 Southern California men missing after Aftershock Festival in Sacramento

KTLA: Police impersonator arrested, accused of conducting illegal traffic stops in SGV

KCRA: California announces funding for small homes to combat homelessness. Here's where they'll be