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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: Senate report says US taxpayers help fund residential treatment facilities that put vulnerable kids at risk

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

KPIX: Are California's Mental Health Courts successful? That depends on who you ask because there's no reliable data.

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