Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Thursday, June 13
The Guardian: Broken toilets, bed bugs and rats: US firefighters are in a housing crisis
AP News: 3 deputies shot while responding to northern Illinois home, suspect also wounded, official says
AP News: Wreck of the last ship of famed Anglo-Irish explorer Shackleton found off the coast of Canada
Smithsonian Magazine: African Elephants May Call Each Other by Name
Smithsonian Magazine: See the Rare, 2,000-Pound Hoodwinker Sunfish That Washed Ashore in Oregon
BBC: Six swing states set to decide the US election
BBC: Wild horses return to Kazakh plain after centuries
BBC: Native Americans see omen in Yellowstone's rare white bison
The Guardian: Florida sees rare flash flood emergency with more heavy rain ahead: ‘We are in trouble’
National Geographic: It's hard to reconnect with old friends. Science may have a solution.
National Geographic: What is kratom? The truth behind the popular—and controversial—supplement
Courthouse News Service: California Forever’s plan to build city from scratch qualifies for November ballot
KCRA: Governor Newsom doubles deployment at border to fight fentanyl smuggling
The Oregonian: ‘Very loving, caring dog’ travels 4 miles to save Oregon owner after car crash
Courthouse News Service: Off-road vehicles in coastal marten habitats prompt lawsuit against US Forest Service
Courthouse News Service: Irrigators clash with US government and Yurok Tribe over Klamath water rights at Ninth Circuit
Fox Seattle: Costco recalls Tillamook cheese products due to plastic contamination
Courthouse News Service: Ojibwe members ask appeals court to confirm Minnesota reservation still exists
OPB: Oregon’s psilocybin industry, a year old, seeks customers
Courthouse News Service: Research debunks colonial myth about Chichén Itzá’s sacrifice preferences
LA Times: Column: California’s knock-down, drag-out fight over addiction and theft
KCRA: California creates plan to tackle home insurance crisis
KRCR: Fortuna police seek suspect in attempted kidnapping of two girls on Redwood Way
KRCR: 1 in 3 Californians on Medicaid, doctors push ballot measure to force state to pay more
KCRA: 18-year-old accused of sex trafficking 2 teen girls in Sacramento
KCRA: Bipartisan backlash builds on legislative effort to challenge Prop 47 reform ballot initiative
LA Times: Column: A Korean American family called for help. An LAPD officer arrived, shot mentally ill son
LA Times: Tourists were zip-tied and robbed in an L.A. short-term rental. Should it even have been open?
LA Times: Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs, buys Malibu estate for $94 million
LA Times: Now bankrupt, MedMen owes millions to other companies. Meet the cannabis CEO who called them out
KRON: Climate protesters tackled on field, arrested at Congressional Baseball Game
KRON: Man arrested, accused of starting several fires in Sausalito
SFGate: Santa Cruz County seeing uptick in sharks this summer
KTLA: CVS product recalls tied to factories with barefoot workers, bacteria: Bloomberg
KTLA: The nation’s most polluted beach is in California, study finds
KTLA: Southern California woman discovers coyote family living underneath her home
SFGate: 100 people rescued in one day at Waikiki-area beaches amid big surf in Hawaii
East Bay Times: Diablo Canyon nuke plant could trigger higher PG&E customer bills, experts warn
Orange Co. Register: Ikea lost $5,000 when each worker quit. So it began paying more. Here’s what happened
East Bay Times: Recall of conservative Temecula school board president, who called Harvey Milk a pedophile, appears to succeed
KPIX: Oakland teen's graduation day ends with thieves taking her gifts
SFGate: Pest that New Yorkers were told to kill on sight found in California for first time
YourCentralValley: Yosemite celebrates phase 1 of restoring Ackerson Meadow
SFGate: Kevin Jonas reveals skin cancer diagnosis, surgery for treatment
East Bay Times: Annexation approved for controversial housing development near Pittsburg ridgeline
Tuesday, June 11
East Bay Times: Study: Southern California is most disaster-prone region in U.S.
East Bay Times: Not (officially) in my backyard: Illegal California ADUs outpacing permitted ones
The Guardian: Washington teen returning replica gun to store shot dead by security guard