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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, April 29

KTLA: About 55,000 Los Angeles County workers go on strike, pausing some services

KTLA: Here’s how California’s license plates will look different next year

SF Gate: Authorities arrest suspect tied to double homicide in Santa Cruz Mountains

SF Gate: California man charged in 2004 rape and killing, police believe more victims out there

East Bay Times: Where We Live: Ancient trees still survive in the bustling Bay Area

CBS : Benicia community coming to grips with potential closure of refinery

CBS News : Man suspected of double murder in Santa Cruz Mountains arrested

CBS News : FBI arrests alleged South Lake Tahoe fentanyl dealer linked to 4 overdose deaths

KRON: Lafayette police arrest man in string of burglaries across Bay Area cities

East Bay Times: 50-year legacy: Vietnamese boat people thrive as Monterey fishermen

East Bay Times: Judge orders involuntary medication of California conspiracy theorist charged with killing his 2 kids in Mexico

Marin Independent Journal: Struggling Tiburon movie theater gets help from neighbors

East Bay Times: 2 teens ejected from car that flew off California freeway ramp during police pursuit

East Bay Times: DOGE cuts hit San Jose State, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco. Researcher says: ‘I don’t know that they understood what I was doing’

SF Gate: After decades in storage, fossilized tracks unlock ancient secrets in Oregon

KPIX: FDA to undo some layoffs, after cuts to inspections and drug safety

Sunday, April 27

The Atlantic: How Drug Cartels Took Over Social Media

The Atlantic: What Porn Did to American Culture

The Atlantic: American Panopticon: The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.

Oregon Public Broadcasting: How Oregon became a world-class cheese state

Grist: A forthcoming Supreme Court decision could limit agencies’ duty to consider environmental harms

Grist: Balcony solar took off in Germany. Why not the US?

Indian Country Today: In Wyoming, the Eastern Shoshone tribe decided to classify buffalo as wildlife. Here is why

The Oregonian: Disgraced ex-congressman sobs as he hears sentence three times longer than what defense sought

The Hill: How Trump’s tariffs are snarling supply chains

The Hill: Homan says having US-born children does not make people ‘immune’ from deportation

The Hill: Greenland prime minister says US has ‘not been respectful’, island can’t be bought by ‘just anyone’

Courthouse News Service: Oregon tribe spars with power company over fishing platform at center of land fight

Courthouse News Service: Portland, where the pinball never rests

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Homes destroyed and 1,500 detained in Kashmir as India cracks down following attacks on tourists

BBC: German defence minister says Ukraine should not agree to sweeping territorial concessions

The Oregonian: WWII bomber found on Pacific Ocean floor — with a bomb still attached and vintage car on board

The Oregonian: A Chinese mitten crab was caught in the Columbia River. Here’s how to spot the prohibited species

KTLA: Women take center stage in Southern California fire academy

AP News: Suspect arrested in Homeland Security Secretary Noem’s purse theft

SF Gate: 'Unfathomable': Calif. woman faces deportation for decades-old conviction

KTLA: Southern California man sex trafficked, raped woman, before abandoning her in a forest

KTLA: Search continues for missing elderly couple in Southern California

KTLA: 6 hospitalized in downtown Long Beach crash

BBC: Stranded killer whales 'must leave now' as rehoming options shrink

BBC: Judge says US citizen, age 2, may have been deported without 'meaningful process'

SF Gate: Two men rescued from 250-foot mine shaft in remote California desert

SF Gate: Google billionaire steps in to save independent Calif. grocery store

SF Gate: Unique Hybrid: Eureka's drive-through coffee and cannabis joint

SF Gate: Northern California cop accidentally shot inside courthouse

AP News: PHOTOS: For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families

AP News: A massive explosion at an Iranian port possibly linked to missile fuel kills 25, injures some 800

AP News: Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested over expired visa after security check for military housing

AP News: Russia launches nearly 150 drones against Ukraine as Trump doubts Putin’s desire for peace