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Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2023

AP News: The Rolling Stones announce 2024 North American Tour

The Guardian: ‘You live in your own bubble’: Swedish city takes on loneliness with a simple hi

AP News: Democratic-led cities pay for migrants’ tickets to other places as resources dwindle

AP News: Oregon’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law is facing pushback amid the fentanyl crisis

The Oregonian: Oregon secretary of state stands by controversial audit of marijuana program

The Atlantic: An Unlikely Source of Greenhouse-Gas Emissions

The Atlantic: How the Hillbillies Remade America

The Oregonian: Oregon woman who treated daughter’s cancer with CBD oil found guilty of mistreatment

The Oregonian: How often do health insurers reject patients’ claims? No one knows

AP News: There’s a movement to ‘leave the leaves’ in gardens and lawns. Should you do it?

BBC: Uttarakhand tunnel collapse: First video emerges of trapped Indian workers

The Guardian: Cost-of-living crisis fuels global appetite for instant ramen

The Guardian: Banksy reveals his first name in resurfaced interview clip

AP News: New Hampshire man had no car and no furniture, but died with a big secret, leaving his town millions

BBC: Brazil records its hottest ever temperature

BBC: Hamas leader says truce deal close as Israel yet to comment

AP News: As more of the world thirsts, luxury water becoming fashionable among the elite

The Guardian: The jet set: 200 celebrities’ aircraft have flown for combined total of 11 years since 2022

SFGate: 'Major dust storm' shuts down I-15 along California-Nevada line

LA Times: More officers allege sexual hazing on LAPD’s Centurions football team

Courthouse News Service: A$AP Rocky must stand trial on charges he fired gun at former friend, judge rules

Courthouse News Service: Supreme Court agrees to review funding fight over tribe health care costs

Courthouse News Service: Researchers still hazy on effect of intense wildfires on California wildlife

Courthouse News Service: Heat-related death toll in 2022 Europe revised to more than 70,000

LA Times: Underpass lot below 10 Freeway failed inspection months before fire

Yahoo News: New Hampshire man had no car and no furniture, but died with a big secret, leaving his town millions

Reuters: Giant batteries change the economics of gas power plants

East Bay Times: Big Basin: Redwood trees’ recovery is ‘remarkable’ three years after huge fire, while some species are still struggling

Sacramento Bee: $1 billion electric vehicle battery site planned for Rancho Cordova. Here’s where

Sacramento Bee: California spending billions to expand transitional kindergarten. How effective is the program?

East Bay Times: Teen charged with attempted murder in wild Bay Point gang shootout on Halloween, but suspected killer set free

East Bay Times: SoCal restaurant worker pleads not guilty to killing woman with a fire extinguisher

SF Chronicle: California environmentalists sue to stop replanting of sequoia groves in wilderness areas

SF Chronicle: Navy plane overshoots runway and ends up in ocean, but all 9 aboard escape unharmed

SF Chronicle: PG&E doesn’t owe damages for power shut-offs during wildfires, California Supreme Court rules

SF Chronicle: S.F. to miss state housing deadline, jeopardizing local planning control

SFGate: Hawaii expected to see 25-foot-tall waves, dangerous swells

SFGate: Car crash obliterates iconic redwood "peanut" in Orick

SFGate: Dramatic NorCal burglary chase ends in arrests of men on FBI terrorist watch list

SFGate: Several trucks flipped over on SoCal highways amid fierce wind event

KRCR: $26 million painting heading to the Louvre after being found in elderly woman's kitchen

KRCR: One dead after Cadillac bursts into flames following a crash off the US-101 in Laytonville

KRCR: Search underway for missing 11-year-old girl in Crescent City, officials seek public's help

KRCR: Rising salmonella cases in Shasta County prompt holiday food safety reminders

Marin Independent Journal: Larkspur-Corte Madera School District faces bigotry outbreak

KRON: Thieves break in Hayward auto dealership, $100K worth of cars stolen

Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023

BBC: Dominican Republic: At least 21 dead after storm brings torrential rain

Axios: Indian students fuel international enrollment at American colleges

KPTV: Hundreds to be laid off in Salem-Keizer School District: Superintendent

The Oregonian: Judge dismisses tribes’ claims that lithium mine is being built illegally near sacred site