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Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024

Marin Independent Journal: Marin property sold at tax auction by mistake

Marin Independent Journal: Homes vs. beaches: Key ruling near on California sea wall limits

East Bay Times: South Bay state senator proposes to bar resale of diesel-powered trains

KOIN: The stars have come out at the Kennedy Center for Coppola, the Grateful Dead, Raitt and Sandoval

KOMO: Federal Way sees 11% drop in overall crime as drug arrests surge by more than 402%

KOMO: 5 injured in mass shooting near hookah lounge in Seattle's CID

KRCR: Police searching for missing 15-year-old in Fort Bragg

KTLA: Massive fire torches warehouse in Los Angeles County

East Bay Times: How this California home was retrofitted top to bottom to protect against wildfires — for free

NPR: USDA orders testing across nation's milk supply amid rising bird flu cases

Courthouse News Service: ‘Brought to you by locals’: California news nonprofit runs on volunteers

Oregon Public Broadcasting: New report shows how Oregon’s kelp forests have dwindled

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Cowlitz Indian Tribe champions holistic, gender-affirming care rooted in tradition

NBC News: Indigenous-led forensics team looks for missing Native Americans

AP News: US announces nearly $1 billion more in longer-term weapons support for Ukraine

NBC News: Trump aims to end birthright citizenship, says American citizens with family here illegally may be deported

The Guardian: Donald Trump promises to pardon January 6 rioters on ‘day one’

Washington Post: Trump says members of Jan. 6 committee should be jailed

NY Times : Trump Signals an Aggressive Opening, Threatening ‘Jail’ for Cheney and Others

SF Gate: 'Controlled chaos': Delightfully bizarre Yosemite tradition back after 5 years

SciTechDaily: Millions at Risk: Popular Medication Linked to Bone Loss

NPR: The world's most expensive dinosaur has arrived in New York City

Reuters: Suspect identified in UnitedHealth executive's murder, New York Post reports

Washington Post: Tsunami researchers hunt for clues about the next big Pacific Northwest quake

NY Times : New substance may help preserve waterlogged wood from soggy shipwrecks

Sacramento Bee: Billionaire Elon Musk wants to kill California’s high-speed rail project. Can he do it?

Sacramento Bee: Avian influenza detected in migratory birds as feds step up virus detection in California

NY Times : For Taylor Swift, It’s the End of the ‘Eras’

The Atlantic: The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

Washington Post: How billionaire Charles Koch’s network won a 40-year war to curb regulation

Washington Post: Federal employees scramble to insulate themselves from Trump’s purge

Washington Post: Many targeted for removal by Trump can’t be deported, ICE data shows

Washington Post: Why not enlist an army of volunteer retirees for National Service?

Axios: Grandma's hobbies are back

Outside Online: Want to Live Longer? You Better Start Moving—All Day Long.

Outside Online: How Indigenous Activists Lead the Largest Dam Removal Project in American History

AP News: Feds approve scaled-down Idaho wind farm near historic Japanese American incarceration site

AP News: More than 900 people died in Jonestown. Guyana wants to turn it into a tourist attraction

AP News: FBI offers $50,000 reward for information about gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare’s CEO

The Guardian: From field to farm: the US pro athletes trying their hand at agriculture

The Guardian: ‘Mummy would prefer you not to do that’: how ‘no’ became a dirty word in parenting

The Guardian: US Food and Drug Administration moves to ban red food dye

The Guardian: Trump’s policies ‘should be turning off farmers’ – why did so many vote for him?

The Guardian: The science behind winning a Nobel prize? Being a man from a wealthy family

The Guardian: Fentanyl may enter the US from Mexico, but the drug of choice there is different

Smithsonian Magazine: A Little Boy Found a Strange Stone on the Beach. Archaeologists Told Him It Was a Neanderthal’s Hand Ax

The Guardian: Bashar al-Assad reported to have fled Syria as rebels say they have captured Damascus

Smithsonian Magazine: When Instant Replay Debuted During the Broadcast of a College Football Game in 1963, It Revolutionized the Way We Watch Sports

The Oregonian: H5N1 bird flu just one small mutation away from being a threat to humans, California researchers say

The Oregonian: Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab season opening date set