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Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023

SFGate: Treasured Bay Area pumpkin patch suffers thousands in damage after vandalism and stolen tractor

SFGate: Bay Area flight instructor recounts harrowing Yosemite rescue

The Hill: Number of displaced in Gaza surpasses 187,000 as dozens of towns evacuate, U.N. office says

The Hill: A warming Colorado River grapples with invasive species

The Hill: Elon Musk flags Iranian supreme leader’s post on Hamas attack on Israel

KRCR: One person charged with murder after hit-and-run in Yreka

KRCR: 2 adults killed in Saturday structure fire in Burney, sheriff says

Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023

ABC News: At least 15 people are killed when a bomb brought home by children explodes in eastern Congo

ABC News: Excessive drinking during COVID increased rates of liver disease, transplants

Action News Now: Bicyclist receives major injuries after being hit on Highway 299

AP News: More than 123,000 Gazans now displaced, UN says

AP News: Pharmacist shortages and heavy workloads challenge drugstores heading into their busy season

The Guardian: Cargill and ADM led push to weaken new protections for threatened ecosystems in South America, report says

The Guardian: California governor vetoes bill that would have set a $35 cap for insulin

The Guardian: California nearly decriminalizes psychedelics – but governor hits brakes

AP News: Israel says its at war after surprise Hamas attack

CNN: A ‘Pearl Harbor’ moment: Why didn’t Israel’s sophisticated border security stop Saturday’s attack?

Politico: Newsom signs first-in-the-nation corporate climate disclosure bills

Politico: Quakes kill over 2,000 in Afghanistan

The Guardian: ‘Like butter for bears’: the grizzlies who dine on 40,000 moths a day

The Guardian: Cannabis firms are cut off from the US financial system, but relief is in sight

Fox News: California police warn about scam of a ‘dropped $20 bill’

Cleveland: Car crashes, alcohol consumption and vet visits: How legal recreational marijuana has changed Michigan, Illinois and more

NY Times : Opinion: The Hidden Moral Injury of ‘OK Boomer’

NPR: Yes, end-of-life planning is a tough subject. How to talk to your parents about it

NPR: Fossil footprints in New Mexico suggest humans have been here longer than we thought

NPR: It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs

NY Times : A Texas Community Attracts Migrant Home Buyers, and Republican Ire

The Atlantic: Climate Change Has Opened the Grand Canyon to an Invasive Predator

The Guardian: Louisiana student punished by school for dancing at private party

The Guardian: Lost ‘holy grail’ film of life in Brazil’s Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces

Washington Post: Biden border plan faces breakdown amid record influx of families

Washington Post: The rush to map underground fungi networks before they’re gone

Washington Post: ‘Freak of nature’ cedar tree in B.C. is the find of a lifetime for forest explorer

The Guardian: Off-duty US air force officer saves fallen climber on Yosemite’s Half Dome

The Guardian: Feeding seaweed to cows can cut methane emissions, says Swedish report

The Oregonian: Photos: Architect Robert Oshatz’s 5 new vertical homes are rising near Portland’s Forest Park

The Guardian: Klan War: how Ulysses S Grant took the fight to the extreme right

The Guardian: ‘I’ve lived many lifetimes’: surfer Owen Wright’s remarkable journey from brain injury to Olympic glory

The Oregonian: Homemade explosive device detonates in McMinnville, sends shrapnel flying

The Oregonian: Drone maker Insitu lays off more workers in Columbia River Gorge

KPTV: 4 Chicago officers among 9 injured in crash while pursuing shooting suspects

KPTV: Oregon seeks $27M for dam repair it says resulted in mass death of Pacific lamprey fish

The Oregonian: Portland needs affordable housing. Churches have unused land. It’s a match made in heaven

The Guardian: ‘Fires everywhere’: the Australian firefighters on the frontline of the new global Flame Age

The Atlantic: The Standard Advice for Concussions Is Wrong

The Guardian: Shot 14 times, no charges for police: family’s grief over death of Cop City activist

The Hill: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran say Israel has only itself to blame for Hamas attacks

The Guardian: Israel-Hamas war live: ‘hundreds of terrorists’ killed, says Israel, as fighting continues in south of country and Gaza

AP News: Largest Hindu temple outside India in the modern era opens in New Jersey