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Thursday, March 2, 2023

AP News: Maui hate crime case spotlights Hawaii’s racial complexity

NPR: U.S. and Russia's top diplomats meet for the first time since the Ukraine war began

NBC LA: Nissan Recalls More Than 800,000 SUVs Over Key Defect That Can Cut Off Engine

NBC LA: Millions of Low-Income Families Could Soon Face Steeper Broadband Internet Bills

NBC LA: Flight Attendant ‘Hit the Ceiling': 7 Hospitalized After Severe Turbulence Diverts Flight to Virginia

KTLA: California bill proposes that all-gender neutral bathrooms be available at public schools statewide

LA Times: Opinion: How California came to treat UC Berkeley students’ ‘noise’ as a dire environmental threat

LA Times: Yet more rain expected to hit California in March. Warmer storms could cause problems

LA Times: Who’s benefiting from Russia’s war on Ukraine? Arms dealers and manufacturers

KTLA: 2 arrested for over $460,000 in stolen merchandise in Orange County

LA Times: Hidden, illegal casinos are booming in L.A., with organized crime reaping big profits

KRCR: Redding micro-shelters postponed but interviewing candidates begins this week

KRCR: Wife arrested in connection to youth football embezzlement, husband to turn himself in

KRCR: Former Chico State department chair and secretary plead no-contest to theft charges

The Hill: Ticketmaster, PayPal, eBay are hassling customers to report sales even though the IRS says they don’t have to

The Hill: Explosive found in bag at Pennsylvania airport, man arrested

The Guardian: ‘A war society doesn’t see’: the Brazilian force driving out mining gangs from Indigenous lands

The Guardian: Overconsumption by the rich must be tackled, says acting UN biodiversity chief

The Guardian: Why are eggs so expensive? Because an avian flu killed 43 million hens last year

The Guardian: ‘It’s gamified’: inside America’s blood plasma donation industry

The Guardian: US teachers grapple with a growing housing crisis: ‘We can’t afford rent’

The Guardian: China leading US in technology race in all but a few fields, thinktank finds

The Guardian: OSHA, DoJ take on Amazon’s grueling working conditions

Courthouse News Service: Oslo police remove Greta Thunberg from protest against wind farms

Courthouse News Service: California not on track to meet ambitious 2030 climate goals

KRON: The rise of fentanyl in San Francisco

East Bay Times: New bill aims to convert offices to housing. Here’s where that could happen in the Bay Area

Press Democrat: Supervisors OK agreement for 300-room casino-resort project on River Rock site

Press Democrat: Santa Rosa student, 16, fatally stabbed in Montgomery High School classroom; 2nd student injured

KRON: Intruder entered UC Berkeley dorm, grabbed female student

Marin Independent Journal: Former San Quentin guard sentenced for cellphone smuggling

East Bay Times: Misconduct investigation underway after federal judge in California has 13-year-old daughter of defendant handcuffed

KRON: Arrest made in Oakland mass shooting

East Bay Times: Alameda County DA’s new policy will reduce prison sentences through widespread elimination of sentencing enhancements

SFGate: Grapevine closed indefinitely due to snow and ice, authorities say

SFGate: Placer County woman dies after snow porch collapses in storm

SF Chronicle: Opinion: The anatomy of a viral ‘our city is broken, and I’m not gonna take it anymore’ screed

SF Chronicle: 16-year-old student killed in violent altercation at Santa Rosa's Montgomery High School

SFGate: Father and two 9-year-old girls stranded in snowstorm for 13 hours

SF Chronicle: Rain-on-snow could present fresh risks to California’s snowpack. Here’s why

SF Chronicle: California may bar commercial salmon fishing for the first time since 2009

Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023

NBC News: 26 dead and at least 85 injured after a passenger train collided with a freight train in Greece

CNN: Zero-calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds

NBC News: Lori Lightfoot becomes the first Chicago mayor in 40 years to lose re-election

NBC News: Native American advocacy group to retire ‘Crying Indian’ anti-pollution ad

BBC: Donald Trump assails Rupert Murdoch over defamation testimony

BBC: Covid: FBI chief Christopher Wray says China lab leak 'most likely'

BBC: Finland starts construction of Russia border fence

Air Force Times: Six leaders fired from Air Force nuclear base in North Dakota

AP News: US sues chemical company over cancer risk to minority area