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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025

USA Today: Watch first-ever orange shark be caught by fisherman in Costa Rica

Study Finds: Your Car Tires Are Poisoning Fish. Here’s Why Farm Waste Could Be The Pollution Solution

Study Finds: ‘Longevity Drug’? Why Magic Mushrooms May Not Be The Key To Living Longer

Indian Country Today: Gathering of Nations to end in 2026 after 43 years

Grist: Inside the program cuts, workforce purges, and secretive reorganization of the USDA

The Oregonian: 2M acres of Oregon’s wilderness could lose protection if Trump rescinds roadless rule

Smithsonian Magazine: The Return of Plundered Belongings Offers a Chance for Healing to a Grieving Lakota Community 170 Years After a Long-Forgotten Massacre

Courthouse News Service: Robot rabbits the latest tool in Florida battle to control invasive Burmese pythons in Everglades

The Atlantic: How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes

The Atlantic: What Social Science Knows About the Value of Diversity

The Atlantic: A Blueprint for Military Takeovers of U.S. Cities

Reuters: Ford recalls nearly 500,000 vehicles over brake fluid leak

Reuters: US threatens to withhold funding from states over truck driver English proficiency rules

Sacramento Bee: Sacramento to build 135 tiny homes. McCarty calls it ‘future’ of homeless approach

KTLA: Dozens of Californians sickened by recalled eggs

KTLA: Newsom expands CHP crime suppression teams across California

Courthouse News Service: Massachusetts cranberry bogs are being given a second life as vibrant wetlands

Courthouse News Service: Passengers sue Delta, United over windowless 'window seats'

BBC: The benefits and risks of foraging your own food

AP News: US Education Department says Denver school district’s all-gender bathrooms violated Title IX

BBC: Caning and fines for those caught in Singapore drug vape crackdown

BBC: Watch: Timelapse shows massive clouds of smoke from California wildfire near Fresno

BBC: European leaders outraged after Russian strikes kill 21 and damage EU's HQ

The Oregonian: Border agents take 2 firefighters into custody at Olympic Peninsula blaze

The Oregonian: ICE will ‘ramp up’ immigration raids in Los Angeles, other ‘sanctuary cities,’ border adviser says

AP News: Immigration agents signed up to recruit at a California university. Then the protests started

KTLA: Hundreds of L.A. children’s hospital employees just had positions eliminated

KTLA: SoCal woman loses home after being scammed by AI deepfake scammer pretending to be General Hospital actor

CBS News Sacramento: California Assembly GOP leader proposes splitting state in response to Newsom-backed redistricting push

Politico: 'Fine for what'? Newsom doubles down on refusal to give in to Trump's UCLA demands

Politico: Putin defies pressure for peace with massive strike hitting EU mission in Kyiv

CBS News : A golden success: Dog's terminal cancer diagnosis dropped after UC Davis clinical trial

CBS News : Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the rest of America's taxpayers, new study finds

CBS News Bay Area: New study sheds light on what kinds of workers are losing jobs to AI

CBS News Bay Area: Early estimates of Pickett Fire's economic impact to Napa wine industry around $65M

KRON: AI Company that makes da Vinci surgical robot cuts hundreds of Bay Area jobs

KRON: Woman swims from Farallon Islands to Golden Gate Bridge during great white shark migration

Marin Independent Journal: Closure of Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center can proceed, judge says

Marin Independent Journal: House Republicans expand antisemitism investigation to UCSF, UCLA

The Hill: Russia pounds Kyiv with strikes, killing at least 18 and damaging EU building

The Guardian: How Elon Musk’s billionaire Doge lieutenant took over the US’s biggest MDMA company

The Hill: CDC official in resignation letter says HHS policies ‘do not reflect scientific reality’

The Hill: Air Force to provide funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt

East Bay Times: Guitars, ukuleles stolen from Dublin Elementary School

East Bay Times: Map: Garnet Fire evacuations in Sierra Nevada recreation area

SF Gate: 'Stratus' COVID-19 strain surges in Bay Area as vaccine rollout sows confusion

SF Gate: 'Cult-like' California religious group linked to 2 missing people, police say

SF Gate: A mountain biking mecca is rising at the suburban edge of LA

The Guardian: Humans inhale as much as 68,000 microplastic particles daily, study finds

Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025

The Guardian: Trump administration to review 55m US visa holders for potential rule violations