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Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023

AP News: Smith & Wesson celebrates new headquarters opening in gun-friendly Tennessee

LA Times: New California law takes a step toward single-payer healthcare

AP News: The Marines are moving gradually and sometimes reluctantly to integrate women and men in boot camp

LA Times: More than $300 million in unnecessary COVID-19 testing could land Glendale lab owner in prison for 20 years

NBC News: 23andMe user data stolen, targeting Ashkenazi Jewish users

NBC Bay Area: American tourist arrested for smashing ancient ‘idolatrous' Roman statues at Israel museum

NBC Bay Area: California Gov. Newsom signs several laws, including a ban on certain chemicals in food and drinks

LA Times: Newsom signs bill to make California first state in nation to ban “toxic” food additives

LA Times: ‘CannaJefas’ and ‘MotaMamis’ find community at the Latinas in Cannabis Summit

BBC: How did Israeli intelligence fail to stop major attack from Gaza?

BBC: Nevada lithium mine leads to 'green colonialism' accusations

BBC: Afghanistan earthquake: Hundreds dead in powerful quake yesterday

LA Times: Israel and Hamas continue to battle, with at least 600 dead and warnings of a long war

AP News: American mountaineer, local guide dead after avalanches hit Tibetan mountain. Two others are missing

AP News: An app shows how ancient Greek sites looked thousands of years ago. It’s a glimpse of future tech

AP News: Yesterday's earthquakes kill over 2,000 in Afghanistan. People are freeing the dead and injured with their hands

KCRA: Whales and dolphins in American waters are losing food and habitat to climate change, US study says

KCRA: Adaptive athletes take to the trails at Northstar mountain biking event

KTLA: 11-year-old arrested for armed robbery in Santa Monica

KTLA: 2 killed, 3 hospitalized in Inglewood shooting

San Jose Mercury News: Bruce Springsteen announces SF makeup dates for scuttled tour

San Jose Mercury News: Transportation authority clears way for 200 tiny home shelters in North San Jose after push by mayor

Marin Independent Journal: Documentary details Marin attorney’s life as a fugitive after being wrongly accused in San Quentin massacre

Marin Independent Journal: San Rafael city attorney: Let homeless camp at Marin Civic Center

East Bay Times: A fix for California’s teacher shortage? Pull back the retirees who’ve already left

KRCR: City of Redding invites community input for riverfront development plan in a series of meetings

KTVU: Flight from SFO to Tel Aviv turns around mid-flight

SF Chronicle: Pelosi to attend S.F. Israeli gathering Sunday — Palestinian supporters plan separate rally

SF Chronicle: Newsom vetoes bill to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms

Politico: Inside the power struggle between California politicians and judges on homelessness

SF Chronicle: California prison system unveils new solitary confinement rules with short window for public input

SF Chronicle: Charts show extremely detailed look into California’s changing population

SF Chronicle: I spent a week in a Japanese ‘America Town.’ Here’s what it taught me about myself

SFGate: Everything to know about hiking, biking the Bay Area Ridge Trail

SFGate: 'Gaslit the entire time’: Esalen Institute faces more claims of racism, discrimination

Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023

NY Times: Move Over, Machu Picchu: There’s More to See in Peru

NY Times: Millions of Candies Are Recalled After Child Chokes to Death

BBC: Ukraine war: ‘Every family’ in Hroza village affected by missile attack

The Guardian: Italy plans for mass evacuation as quakes continue around supervolcano

KOMO: Biden memo directs US agencies to restore 'healthy and abundant' salmon runs in the Northwest

KPTV: ‘It’s gotten worse’: People react to Monday’s mass overdose incident in Portland

NY Times : Some Key Facts About Fentanyl

NY Times : Hmong in Fresno: The Taste of Home in a Grain of Rice

NY Times : How a Chain-Snatching and a Vegas Beatdown Led to Tupac’s Murder

NY Times : OPINION: Teachers Can’t Hold Students Accountable. It’s Making the Job Miserable.

The Guardian: World’s dogs going vegan ‘would save more emissions than UK produces’

Washington Post: Opinion: ‘Trump’s generals’ need to warn voters that he is unfit to serve

Politico: Credit Unions Are Making Money Off People Living Paycheck to Paycheck

Politico: Why health care experts are so concerned about fishing boats

The Guardian: Hundreds of potentially toxic road runoff outfalls polluting England’s rivers