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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Thursday, June 26

BBC: Ecuador's most wanted drug lord captured in 'underground bunker'

The Guardian: Chile targets fast fashion waste with landmark desert cleanup plan

The Guardian: Trump’s justice department sues entire bench of Maryland judges over order restricting deportations

The Guardian: BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news and TV coverage

The Guardian: Hundreds of weight loss and diabetes jab users report pancreas problems

The Guardian: Dollar falls to three-year low after report Trump may name next Fed chair early

The Guardian: Supreme court paves way for South Carolina and other states to defund Planned Parenthood

AP News: US economy shrank 0.5% between January and March, worse than 2 earlier estimates had revealed

Spokane Spokesman-Review: School Board rules Spanish teacher overstepped when he read aloud the ‘N-Word’ in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, does not reinstate teacher

Spokane Spokesman-Review: The surprising ways food packaging is exposing us to microplastics

AP News: Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

Huffington Post: 'Doesn’t Take An Einstein’: Jasmine Crockett Hits Trump With Sharp Melania Swipe

The Oregonian: Man drowns while fishing off Oregon coast

OPB: Oregon bill making it easier to forcibly treat – and release – people with mental illness moves forward

OPB: Judge orders Trump administration to resume distributing money for EV chargers

The Oregonian: Amazon opens $500 million Oregon warehouse that stocks 40 million products: Look inside

The Oregonian: $45 million state grant inflames tribal tensions at Willamette Falls

Courthouse News Service: In dissent, Justice Jackson steals the spotlight

KTLA: Search underway for missing Southern California hiker

KTLA: Street food vendor clings to tree as immigration agents detain her in Ladera Heights

Sacramento Bee: Formerly incarcerated Californians find success with help of re-entry programs

Sacramento Bee: Trump administration: California must strip trans athletes of awards

Courthouse News Service: Texas governor signs bill critics call modern-day ‘alien land law’

Courthouse News Service: California nonprofit revises plan for controversial wood pellet project

Courthouse News Service: Human rights groups in UK decry Palestine Action ban as threat to free speech

Courthouse News Service: Mexico to pursue legal action over falling SpaceX rocket debris

CBS News LA: 85 Koi fish stolen from pond outside of San Bernardino County restaurant

CBS News LA: Los Angeles' immigration detention facilities a "ticking time bomb," immigration lawyer says

CBS News : Sacramento considers banning overnight sleeping near City Hall, regionalizing homeless approach

CBS Sacramento: Caltrans building animal crossings over Interstate 80 in Sierra to increase safety

CBS Sacramento: Sacramento Railyards protest threatens to derail soccer stadium, delay project for years

CBS Bay Area: DNA leads to suspect arrest in 2024 Santa Rosa fatal stabbing

CBS Bay Area: Sonoma State slashed programs, athletics. Now, it's getting $45M from state budget

CBS San Diego: Gray whale population off North American Pacific Coast plummets, new report shows

KRCR: Multiple overdoses lead to one death in Chico

KRCR: Camp Cinder Shasta returns to Redding, empowering young women with firefighting education

KRCR: Turtle Bay launches Turtle Express, a train ride across the Sundial Bridge

KTLA: Army vet, Purple Heart recipient, self-deports after 48 years in U.S.

KRON: Gas prices in California to go up July 1

KRON: FBI offering $10K reward to help find missing Oakland woman

SF Gate: Major California company leaves for Texas

SF Gate: Pacific Northwest leaders warn senator to let failed land sale idea die

SF Gate: Bay Area county votes to remove first female sheriff from office, citing misconduct

SF Gate: California teen lost touch with reality, walked off Mount Whitney, dad says

Marin Independent Journal: Highway 101 ramp meters activated in Marin County

Marin Independent Journal: Marin planners backpedal on Lucas Valley housing project

San Jose Mercury News: 2 Bay Area beaches made USA Today’s best beaches in California

SF Gate: Mass layoffs hit major Bay Area health care network

SF Gate: Big Sur official says failed land sale plan was peak Republican 'cruelty'

SF Gate: World’s biggest digital camera, built in Bay Area, delivers spectacular first images