Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023
High Country News: California’s Central Valley chinook are getting lost on their way home
CNN: After a $1.8 billion verdict, the clock is ticking on the 6% real estate commission
Rolling Stone: Oakland Street Renamed ‘Tupac Shakur Way’ to Honor Rapper
The Guardian: More than 1,000 craters: satellite images show destruction of northern Gaza Strip
BBC: What a Donald Trump second term would look like
BBC: Germany: Illegal migration rise prompts border crackdown
BBC: Israel-Gaza war: Ceasefire would allow Hamas to regroup, says Blinken
AP News: Phoenix finishes clearing downtown homeless encampment after finding shelter for more than 500
The Hill: House GOP approves cutting EPA budget by nearly 40 percent
The Guardian: ‘Hollywood doesn’t change overnight’: Indigenous viewers on Killers of the Flower Moon
The Hill: Texas voters to decide whether to put billions toward gas power plants
The Hill: How democracy dies, right here in America
The Hill: Blinken meets with Palestinian leader in West Bank
The Guardian: ‘The children screamed for hours’: horrors of Hurricane Otis leave devastation for Acapulco’s poorest
AP News: U.S. regulators will review car-tire chemical that kills salmon, upon request from West Coast tribes
AP News: Tens of thousands of ancient coins have been found off Sardinia. They may be spoils of a shipwreck
AP News: Fall back: How daylight saving time can seriously affect your health
Vox: Patients don’t know how to navigate the US health system — and it’s costing them
AP News: A Philippine radio anchor is fatally shot while on Facebook livestream watched by followers
The Guardian: Georgia homeowner finds 3ft tegu lizard hiding under porch
The Guardian: EPA to push ban of toxic chemical found in US drinking water
The Guardian: Sea-lice outbreak on Icelandic salmon farm a ‘welfare disaster’, footage shows
The Guardian: ‘On the brink of extinction’: a food historian’s hunt for ingredients vanishing from US plates
The Guardian: View on Israel-Gaza emerges as rare divide for California’s Senate hopefuls
The Guardian: Days before election, far-right officials in Shasta County insist on hand tally
Popular Mechanics: Archaeologists Think They Might Have Found the Real Noah’s Ark
Smithsonian Magazine: This California Museum Is Home to Hundreds of Nature’s Scents
Smithsonian Magazine: New U.S. Quarter Honors Maria Tallchief, America’s First Prima Ballerina
Outside Online: Should I Clear a Homeless Camp on Public Land?
AP News: Supreme Court will rule on ban on rapid-fire gun bump stocks, used in the Las Vegas mass shooting
AP News: German police advise travelers to avoid Hamburg airport due to an ongoing hostage situation
LA Times: What’s the fastest way to kill your lawn? Science says forget the cardboard
Courthouse News Service: Environmentalists accuse Caltrans of dewatering creek with endangered steelhead
Courthouse News Service: California residents, policymakers struggle with beach access as housing costs rise
Courthouse News Service: Supreme Court’s 2nd Amendment history test faces domestic abuser quandary
LA Times: Column: Do Californians want solar and wind in their backyards? New poll says yes
KOMO : Looking for a job? UPS is hiring
KOMO : Suspicious envelopes at Seattle synagogues deemed non-hazardous by fire department
KOMO : Woman dead, man in critical condition after King County Metro bus crashes into building in Seattle
LA Times: ‘Double the legal limit’: Assemblymember, L.A. council candidate arrested on suspected DUI
LA Times: Healthcare minimum wage expected to cost $4 billion in first year as California budget deficit looms
The Olympian: Species die-offs and extreme weather. How WA marine heatwave ‘blobs’ are wreaking havoc
The Oregonian: Woman arrested after allegedly crashing dump truck in Portland released from jail, then crashes car evading Gresham police
The Oregonian: Bow & Arrow, first Native American woman-owned brewery in US, kicks off Function PDX schedule
KTLA: California launches guaranteed income pilot programs
KTLA: Multiple people shot at while driving on 91 Freeway in Corona
LA Times: Two baby alligators seized at San Bernardino home under investigation for squatters
LA Times: Opinion: I’m one of millions struggling to care for aging parents. It shouldn’t be this hard
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