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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023

Politico: Offshore wind company pulls out of New Jersey projects, a setback to Biden’s green agenda

Politico: Florida joins conservative states severing ties with national library group

KTLA: Southern California man allegedly stole $4 million worth of computers

KTLA: Riverside County wildfire continues to burn out of control

San Jose Mercury News: Bay Area masking up again as mandates go into effect Nov. 1 in health care settings

East Bay Times: Tech moguls used ‘strong-armed’ tactics to buy Bay Area land for secret city, farmers say

East Bay Times: Livermore man gets 5 days in jail for killing woman in 2022 DUI crash

East Bay Times: CSU faculty authorizes strike — a move that eventually could affect more than 400,000 students

The Guardian: Seeds of doubt: mystery remains over how sunflowers track light

NY Post: Pro-pot pols who backed NY weed law now fume at illegal shops opening everywhere

Fox News: Visitors trying to hold young bear prompts NPS to close part of Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina

CNN: She lost her mother to gun violence. 5 years later, this vibrant fourth grader was killed while getting ice cream

Washington Post: D.C. youth fatally shot in carjacking attempt had 9 prior charges 12 hours ago

NPR: Worldwide, women cook twice as much as men: One country bucks the trend

NPR: What to know about trunk-or-treating, a trick-or-treating alternative

NPR: We're spending $700 million on pet costumes in the costliest Halloween ever

Washington Post: Police officers recall Jan. 6 at Colorado hearing to kick Trump off ballot

Cal Matters: Unemployment insurance: California’s ‘urgent’ $20 billion problem

NY Times: The Joy of Picking Up Other People’s Trash

NY Times: Does Salvation for California’s Redwoods Lie Out of State?

NY Times: How a Lucrative Surgery Took Off Online and Disfigured Patients

NY Times: This Florida School District Banned Cellphones. Here’s What Happened.

The Hill: Opinion: Here come the gender-detransitioner lawsuits

The Hill: Kinzinger says family disowned him over loss of Hannity’s trust

The Guardian: Dekotora: the decorated trucks of Japan – a photo essay

AP News: Kansas can’t enforce new law on abortion pills or make patients wait 24 hours, judge rules

The Guardian: ‘Hamas has created additional demand’: Wall Street eyes big profits from war

Yahoo News: She was told her grandfather had saved a Black man. Then she dug up the ugly truth

AP News: Last operating US prison ship, a grim vestige of mass incarceration, set to close in NYC

The Guardian: China’s billionaires looking to move their cash, and themselves, out

Washington Post: House GOP demands IRS budget cuts along with Israel aid

Washington Post: An apocalyptic dust plume killed off the dinosaurs, study says

Washington Post: Opinion: The closer you look, the more Netanyahu resembles Trump

Washington Post: A falcon lost his ability to fly. Now the bird is an artist in Vermont.

Washington Post: Home schooling’s rise from fringe to fastest growing form of education

The Guardian: Calls in Spain to stop selling ‘sexy nurse’ Halloween costumes

The Guardian: US students file complaints against six universities over fossil fuel investments

The Guardian: Synchronized swimming prepares for its newest addition: men

The Oregonian: Portland man crowned UK crossword puzzle champion with ‘totally misleading’ clue

KRCR: Shasta County supervisors debate hefty 65% pay raise proposal at Halloween meeting

KRCR: California Faculty Association votes to authorize strike if CSU does not meet workers' demands

KOMO : San Antonio's dog bite crisis: Over 3,000 cases reported, pit bull look-alikes top the list

Oregon Public Broadcasting: ‘Killing salmon to lose money’: A costly, questionable plan on the Willamette

KOMO : Federal Way man carjacked at gunpoint in home driveway, surveillance video shows

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Portland will begin enforcing camping ban in two weeks

The Guardian: Rescuers free humpback whale ‘hog-tied’ to 300lb crab pot in Alaska

The Guardian: Everything from our sleep to our hormones relies on the dark. So why are we so intent on destroying it?

The Guardian: Disabled man drags himself off plane after Air Canada fails to offer wheelchair

The Guardian: Israel targets Hamas tunnels amid hopes more aid will reach civilians in Gaza

The Atlantic: Private Equity: The Secretive Industry Devouring the U.S. Economy