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Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022

The Oregonian: Firefighters around Oregon work to contain five significant wildfires; Waldo Lake Wilderness now closed

AP News: Residents of Lind, WA, told to leave due to wildfire, homes lost

KHQ: Cow Canyon Fire burning 5,600 acres near Ellensburg, WA

AP News: Wind-whipped fire leaves Northern California hamlet in ashes

AP News: Climate Migration: California fire pushes family to Vermont

KCRA: Pictures: Truck evading police slams into south Sacramento home

KCRA: Lake Tahoe-area fire station shuts down over bat infestation

SFGate: Windsor Hills crash kills at least 4, injures 9

Siskiyou Daily News: McKinney, Yeti Fire updates: Community meeting Friday; new evac orders east of Happy Camp

KRCR: Illegal marijuana grow in found by police in south Redding

KRCR: BREAKING: Highway 299 blocked in both directions following crash

Mt. Shasta Herald: Gains made on McKinney Fire; new evacuations in Siskiyou

SF Chronicle: Penalties for violating rights of the disabled don’t apply to public schools, state Supreme Court rules

SF Chronicle: ‘Torrential rainfall’ is pounding Reno. What’s in store for Tahoe?

SF Chronicle: Wolf ‘milestone’: 11 pups born to Northern California packs this year

NY Times: How Delta-8 THC Works, and Why Experts Are Worried About It

NY Times: Mickelson and Other LIV Golfers File Antitrust Suit Against PGA Tour

NY Times: How Coal Mining and Years of Neglect Left Kentucky Towns at the Mercy of Flooding

Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022

BBC: Pollution: 'Forever chemicals' in rainwater exceed safe levels

Australia News: Iguanas reproducing on Galapagos island, more than a century after disappearing

PBS: Kansas’ secretary of state defeats election conspiracy promoter

AP News: Hot, dry summer: Dutch government declares water shortage

AP News: Record amount of seaweed is choking shores in the Caribbean

BBC: Ukraine war: IAEA says Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant out of control

BBC: Plastic pollution: Birds all over the world are living in our rubbish

Tuscaloosa News: Mine workers union ordered to pay $13M to Tuscaloosa County coal company

The Guardian: Shell to give staff 8% bonus after record profits

CNN: Some lab techs refuse to take blood from possible monkeypox patients

Washington Post: ‘Never seen it this bad’: America faces catastrophic teacher shortage

CNN: Kidnapped girl’s escape leads investigators to 2 decomposed bodies, Alabama officials say

AP News: Seven years of sex abuse: How Mormon officials let it happen

AP News: Alex Jones concedes Sandy Hook attack was ’100% real’

Bloomberg: It’s Getting Harder to Be a Woman in America

San Jose Mercury News: 1 dead in Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Napa

San Jose Mercury News: Woman, 25, charged with allegedly setting 10 fires in a single day in Los Altos Hills

Sacramento Bee: Roseville sees 4 fentanyl overdoses in 36 hours, alarming Placer County authorities

KRCR: Cal Fire law enforcement arrest woman suspected of igniting multiple fires

KRCR: FIRE Update: McKinney Fire approximately 57,500 acres, 10% contained

Action News: Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office issues evacuation warning due to flooding

BBC: Why bad customer behavior is rising

Vice: Video: Meet The People Rebuilding Their Homes And Lives In Paradise, CA

Yahoo News: Rainwater everywhere on Earth contains cancer-causing ‘forever chemicals’, study finds

NY Times : Mexico’s Cruel Drought: ‘Here You Have to Chase the Water’

NY Times : The Outdoor Cat: Neighborhood Mascot or Menace?

NY Times : Arizona Just Chose a Senate Candidate More Extreme Than Donald Trump

KCRA: Researchers work to better predict dangerous debris flows that can follow wildfires

NPR: Talk of 'invasion' moves from the fringe to the mainstream of GOP immigration message

AP News: Jonathan Nez, Buu Nygren advance for Navajo presidency

NPR: Explaining the $14 billion tax 'loophole' that Senate Democrats want to close

The Hill: Corporate lobbying could imperil sweeping data privacy bill