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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023

Forbes: Senate Committee Passes Cannabis Banking Bill

The Hill: More SNAP changes coming Oct. 1

The Hill: Milley says he will take ‘appropriate measures’ to ensure safety following Trump comments

The Hill: How a key OB-GYN org is deliberately confusing doctors and endangering patients

AP News: U.S. Invasive catfish poised to be "apex predators" after eating their way into Georgia rivers

CBS News : Searchers looking for 7 kidnapped youths in Mexico find 6 bodies, 1 wounded survivor

Phys.Org: Tree rings reveal a new kind of earthquake threat to the Pacific Northwest

The Guardian: California’s fast-food workers win fight for $20 hourly pay and industry council

Washington Post: Sitting all day increases dementia risk — even if you exercise

Washington Post: Origins of Parkinson’s may lie in the gut. Researchers hope to prove it.

The Guardian: ‘Genocide is happening before our eyes’: Armenian Americans push for US action against Azerbaijan

The Guardian: A 23-year-old was arrested for gun possession. It led the FBI to a global Satanic cult

The Guardian: Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82

LA Times: Child care is dropping off a federal funding cliff. What it means for California families

LA Times: Buddha is back: $1.5-million statue recovered, but mystery still surrounds theft

The Oregonian: Fire as medicine: Using fire to manage forests, prevent catastrophic wildfires in the Northwest

The Oregonian: Bill for preserving site of Wounded Knee massacre in South Dakota passes U.S. House

Oregon Live: Windows smashed at World Forestry Center in runup to timber-industry conference; protests continue

AP News: Biden to send disaster assistance to Louisiana, as salt water threatens the state’s drinking water

AP News: A board leader calls the new Wisconsin wolf plan key to removing federal protections for the animal

LA Times: Young Chinese adults can’t find work. Now many have a new job description: ‘Full-time children’

AP News: Chinese immigrant workers sue over forced labor at illegal marijuana operation on Navajo land

AP News: Wildfires can make your California red taste like an ashtray. These scientists want to stop that

Courthouse News Service: Judge allows Berkeley homeless encampment sweep, sets enforcement guidelines

Courthouse News Service: Cannabis banking bill clears Senate panel despite Dem fractures, GOP qualms

LA Times: Opinion: I spent 22 years in prison for a crime that never happened. That’s not even the worst part

LA Times: Meet Melanie Barcenas, the 15-year-old Latina trailblazer in the NWSL

LA Times: How powerful land barons shaped the epic floods in California’s heartland

Courthouse News Service: Michigan Supreme Court will require preferred personal pronouns

Courthouse News Service: Pacific lamprey numbers surge in Columbia River Gorge

Courthouse News Service: Biden orders feds to prioritize native fish recovery in Columbia River Basin

BBC: A QAnon 'queen' and the Canada town that wants her gone

BBC: Vietnam jails fifth climate activist on tax charges

SF Chronicle: Gavin Newsom sides with conservatives in urging Supreme Court to take up homeless encampments

SFGate: Critics call mysterious Bay Area pot proposal ‘evil genius’

SFGate: Driver in stolen car kills couple going to church in Oakland, police say

BBC: Famous Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian's Wall 'felled overnight' by vandals

AP News: 3 killed in shootings and an explosion as deadly violence continues in Sweden

AP News: Over 50 arrested after mobs ransacked Philadelphia stores. Dozens of liquor outlets are shut down

AP News: House Speaker McCarthy is back to square one as the Senate pushes ahead to avert a federal shutdown

AP News: US will allow Israeli citizens to travel to US visa-free as Israel joins a select group of countries

Sacramento Bee: CapRadio is in financial trouble. How did it get here, and what does it mean for NPR?

Sacramento Bee: Man and girlfriend convicted of six Sacramento armed robberies in four-day span, DA says

AP News: ExxonMobil loses bid to truck millions of gallons of crude oil through central California

SFGate: San Francisco officials open investigation into $700-a-month tiny bed ‘pods’

SF Chronicle: ‘It’s our choice to use’: Breed’s plan to link drug screening to welfare faces pushback

KPIX: Community in Oakland's Fruitvale District works to save ancient Guatemalan language

KPIX: Bay Area search and rescue operation getting help from high school students

SF Chronicle: ‘Sleeping pods’ in S.F. building spark city probe into potential code violations

East Bay Times: California infectious disease doctor charged with sexually assaulting 9 male patients