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Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024

Reuters: Putin says Russia fired medium-range missile at Ukraine, not an ICBM

Market Watch: Trump’s choice of TV’s ‘Dr. Oz’ to oversee Medicare and Medicaid could be ‘devastating’ for millions of Americans

NPR: A duct-taped banana sells for $6.2 million at an art auction

NPR: NC Senate leader defends move to strip power from Democrats as bill heads to governor

NPR: GOP lawmaker seeks bathroom restrictions on federal property

BBC: Inside South Africa's 'ruthless' gang-controlled gold mines

BBC: Fourth tourist dies after suspected mass methanol poisoning in Laos

BBC: Las Vegas man who called 911 for help killed by police in his home

AP News: St. Louis was once known as Mound City for its many Native American mounds. Just one remains

The Guardian: Philadelphia jury awards $11m to man whose Sig Sauer pistol went off by itself

The Guardian: Republican who won county seat pleads guilty to sexual assault of daughter

The Guardian: Gaza food production ‘decimated’ with 70% of farmland hit, UN finds

KING5: Over 600,000 people lost power at peak of Washington windstorm

KING5: Eloise's Cooking Pot in Tacoma serves 75,000 people per month in need of food

AP News: $344 for a coffee? Scottish farm is selling UK’s most expensive cup

AP News: International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials

AP News: What will happen to CNBC and MSNBC when they no longer have a corporate connection to NBC News?

KPTV: ‘Bomb cyclone’ kills 2 and knocks out power to over half a million homes across the northwest US

The Oregonian: Big League Chew, invented on Portland baseball field, sues manufacturer in sticky trademark dispute

The Oregonian: Blizzard conditions close I-5 southbound at Oregon/California border Wednesday

The Guardian: Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn

KCRA: Palisades Tahoe’s new ski village approved in Placer County

KQED: San Francisco’s Wave Organ Brings Sounds of the Bay to Life

KQED: Heavy Rain Pounds Northern California, But the Worst Is Yet to Come

KCRA: Woman shot, killed during Sacramento County jewelry store robbery identified

LA Times: California water agency considers spending $141 million on Delta tunnel project

LA Times: The Mountain fire was the third most destructive wildfire in a decade. These maps show why

Courthouse News Service: Former truck driver wins $34.7 million defamation verdict against Walmart

Courthouse News Service: Justice Department urges judge to make Google sell Chrome in monopoly dispute

SF Chronicle: A Silicon Valley teacher used pronouns in a TK class. Parents demanded they go back ‘in the closet’

KTLA: Unhappy with the 2024 election results? This Italian village is offering $1 homes to Americans

KPIX: Man accused of robbing Marin County homes while posing as real estate agent

SF Gate: Rain and snow pummel Northern California in latest wave of damaging weather to strike West Coast

East Bay Times: Female students sue California school district, alleging they were told to remove shirts opposing transgender athletes

SF Gate: The missing banana slug that has Eureka outraged

SF Gate: Bomb cyclone brings 'life-threatening flooding' risk to Calif.'s North Coast

East Bay Times: Mountain View barber sought in serial sexual assaults of unconscious men

East Bay Times: California toddler’s backyard snake bite bills totaled $297,461

Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024

SF Gate: Hikers urged to reconsider after famed California's Lost Coast Trail suffers major damage along southern end

Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024

NY Times : Are Shellfish Good for You?

Washington Post: The owl hunters: The deadly campaign to save an icon of the Pacific Northwest

Washington Post: Biological Weapons: The U.S. could soon face a threat ‘more powerful’ than nuclear weapons

NY Times : Saffron: How the World’s Most Expensive Spice Is Grown

NY Times : The Hidden Truth Linking the Broken Border to Your Online Shopping Cart

NY Times : How Kamala Harris Burned Through $1.5 Billion in 15 Weeks

Ars Technica: Are standing desks good for you? The answer is getting clearer.

Ars Technica: A lot of people are mistaking Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites for UAPs

Reuters: Iraq’s missing Yazidis: Inside the long search for Islamic State captives

Reuters: Israel sends draft orders to more ultra-Orthodox

Lookout Santa Cruz: Aptos biotech firm says it’s cracked almond industry’s fertilization problem