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Thursday, June 15, 2023

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

LA Times: L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price charged with embezzlement and perjury

KTLA: Nearly $200 million granted to house thousands of homeless Californians

KTLA: Texas governor sends busload of migrants to Los Angeles

Santa Cruz Sentinel: Cabrillo College leaders reveal top five new names

KRON: Suspect in Mission District mass shooting taken into custody

San Jose Mercury News: Famed musician’s former beach property to become new park on San Mateo coast

Marin Independent Journal: California lets Allstate hike rates — but insurer still won’t write new home policies

San Jose Mercury News: Feds seize 150 gallons of meth: Two sentenced to federal prison for operating conversion meth lab in San Jose

East Bay Times: Police raid Oakland sites, seize hundreds of catalytic converters, $260,000 in Bay Area-wide theft probe

San Jose Mercury News: Sunnyvale detective goes undercover as busboy to nab child-rape cold case suspect

KESQ: Counties with the highest unemployment in California

East Bay Times: Nevada Legislature approves deal for Oakland A’s Las Vegas ballpark

Lake County News: Henderson fire burns near Clearlake Oaks; 25% contained

Press Democrat: Sonoma County, Santa Rosa get millions in state funds to address homeless encampments

SFGate: Man tried to drive car off cliff near Tahoe to kill teen, deputies say