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Sunday, June 18, 2023

SF Chronicle: Elevated levels of bacteria found at Stinson Beach, Marin County officials say

SFGate: Huy Fong Foods Sriracha now sells for $29.99 in some Bay Area stores

SF Chronicle: A highly ambitious plan to restore California's underwater forests has begun

SF Chronicle: All-electric flying taxis? Yes, and they’ll be at SFO by 2026, says United Airlines

SF Chronicle: A Bay Area bald eagle couple adopted two baby red-tailed hawks. Here’s what happened next

SFGate: Professional kayaker missing on California river, 4 rescued

SFGate: Google gets go-ahead to build 153-acre Bay Area neighborhood by headquarters

SFGate: Routes: United will begin flying innovative electric air taxis across Bay Area

Thursday, June 15, 2023

The Atlantic: Winners of the 2023 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition

AP News: Virgin Galactic to send Italian researchers to space, then regular commercial flights

AP News: Hundreds of tribal members, mostly Navajo, living on Phoenix streets amid fake sober home crackdown

AP News: At least 79 dead after overcrowded migrant vessel sinks off Greece; hundreds may be missing

CNN: 2 Americans found dead in hotel room in Mexican resort town, US official says

CNN: An American tourist has died following an attack near Germany’s Neuschwanstein Castle

NY Times: Oregon Town’s Marijuana Boom Yields Envy in Idaho

NY Times: Hey Dad, Can You Help Me Return the Picasso I Stole?

SF Chronicle: California releases first data from new hotline to report hate incidents

LA Times: Record wet winter inflicted more than $210 million in damage to California parks

LA Times: Supreme Court upholds adoption law seeking to protect Native American children

SF Chronicle: Protesters hate the elk fence at this Bay Area national park. Now it might come down

Courthouse News Service: Chinese spies breached hundreds of public, private networks, security firm says

Courthouse News Service: Texas governor signs ban on college diversity programs into law

Courthouse News Service: Push to add "conservation" to BLM's land use policy hit snag

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Providence nurses in Portland and Seaside plan 5-day strike starting Monday

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Wolf killed in Oregon crash believed to have been fed by people in cars

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Punitive damages add to mounting costs for PacifiCorp’s role in 2020 wildfires

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Oregon lawmakers make deal to end Senate walkout. Here’s how key bills were changed

Politico: California power struggle leaves bitter aftertaste in the Legislature

NPR: Live Nation and Ticketmaster tell Biden they're going to show fees up front

Indian Country Today: Nevada mines test 150-year-old mining law

Indian Country Today: Supreme Court: Tribal sovereign immunity doesn’t extend to bankruptcy court

NPR: The Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact

AP News: Biden targets junk fees with executives from Live Nation, SeatGeek and Airbnb

The Hill: Cancer rates are climbing among young people. It’s not clear why

The Hill: Senate Republicans introduce plan to tackle student loan debt

The Guardian: The sound ecologist capturing a disappearing world: ‘70% of habitats I recorded are gone’

The Hill: CDC: Pandemic brought highest rates of teen homicide, young adult suicide since 2001

AP News: The Great Grift: How billions in COVID-19 relief aid was stolen or wasted

BBC: Thousands without power after storms sweep US south

BBC: Greece boat disaster: Capsized boat had 100 children in hold - reports

The Guardian: ‘Traumatic loss’: Indigenous traditions hit by fruit scarcity, Montana climate trial hears

AP News: Bill Cosby sued by 9 more women in Nevada for alleged decades-old sexual assaults

The Guardian: Google earned $10m from ads misdirecting abortion seekers to ‘pregnancy crisis centers’

The Guardian: ‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’

The Guardian: Synthetic human embryos created in groundbreaking advance

The Guardian: Fears of hottest year on record as global temperatures spike

The Guardian: ‘I have not seen one cent’: billions stolen in wage theft from US workers

Heal the Bay: CA Beach Report Card: Clam Beach gets an F

LA Times: These are California’s dirtiest beaches. Is your favorite on the list?

AP News: ‘Beach Report Card’ finds California’s wet winter means dirtier water at the coast