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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, April 8

Washington Post: Why California and the West could face a ‘big fire season’ later this year

Miami New Times: National Weather Service Suspends Forecast Alerts in Spanish

New Republic: Trump Adviser Releases Insane List of Demands for Tariffed Countries

NPR: 'Citizenship won't save you': Free speech advocates say student arrests should worry all

Michigan Live: Drone locates missing woman who survived 3 days in Michigan forest

Politico: Democrats reveal their top targets to flip in 2026

Fortune: Millions of Social Security recipients got erroneous messages that their payments stopped as computer systems keep glitching

NY Times : What Are Microplastics Doing to Our Bodies? This Lab Is Racing to Find Out.

Washington Post: Feds are revoking student visas without notifying colleges

AP News: New Mexico governor signs bill to provide ‘turquoise alert’ when Native Americans go missing

Washington Post: Feds end a civil rights agreement on treatment of Native students, citing DEI

Washington Post: Justice Dept. says it will pull back on litigating cryptocurrency fraud

NY Times : They Work All Day and Go Home to Shelters

The Guardian: Wall Street surges 3% as European markets rebound on trade deal hopes – business live

AP News: Fewer foreign visitors are traveling to the US in what some see as a sign of a ‘Trump Slump’

NPR: It's sexual assault awareness month and HHS just gutted its rape prevention unit

BBC: Red Crescent calls for inquiry into Israel's killing of Gaza paramedics

BBC: US markets rally as Trump's treasury secretary calls China tariff escalation a 'big mistake'

The New Yorker: A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice

AP News: Health insurers rally after government lays out better-than-expected Medicare Advantage raise

The Guardian: Ice frees mother and three kids after protests in US ‘border czar’s’ home town

The Atlantic: Trade Will Move On Without the United States

StatNews: CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration

StatNews: HIV prevention was making great strides. Then Trump’s budget axe fell

Smithsonian Magazine: The Long, Strange History of Nitrous Oxide, a Popular Drug Users Have Been Inhaling for Hundreds of Years

The Atlantic: What Makes Modern Measles Outbreaks Different

The Atlantic: Here Are the Places Where the Recession Has Already Begun

Reuters: Trump attacked Australian beef, but industry looks like tariff winner

Washington Post: Vance’s whopper on alleged Social Security fraud

Reuters: Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say

The Guardian: Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy

The Guardian: ‘No guidance and no leadership’: chaos and confusion at CDC after mass firings

Reuters: China tariff escalation a big mistake, US Treasury Secretary says

Smithsonian Magazine: Discover the Renaissance Origins and Mystical Evolution of Tarot Cards

BBC: Experts dispute claim dire wolf brought back from extinction

BBC: Menendez brothers feel 'hope' for parole after decades in jail

The Guardian: Amid all the warnings about a ‘dementia tsunami’, here are the things you should know

The Hill: Democrats question VA secretary on return-to-office ‘disruptions’

NPR: How to avoid harmful chemicals in skin care and beauty products

NPR: Health secretary RFK Jr. endorses the MMR vaccine — stoking fury among his supporters

BBC: Beijing calls Vance 'ignorant' over 'Chinese peasants' remark

The Guardian: Couple who ran Swedish eco-retreat fled leaving behind barrels of human waste

The Hill: Trump is neutering the Labor Department

Politico: Trump, Hegseth promise record $1 trillion Pentagon budget

Courthouse News Service: California-based strawberry grower faces sour ruling in patent dispute

Courthouse News Service: EPA defends its toxic water guidelines allowing higher levels of chemicals

Politico: Supreme Court says Venezuelans Trump wants to deport must be able to ‘actually seek’ relief before being deported

Courthouse News Service: Supreme Court empowers Trump to continue deportations to El Salvador prison

BBC: Roof collapse at Dominican Republic nightclub kills more than a dozen

The Guardian: ‘They’re killing you’: US poultry workers fear faster lines will lead to more injury