Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Friday, March 4, 2022
SF Chronicle: She’s 82 and still playing soccer. Is this S.F. pickup game the fountain of youth?
SF Chronicle: Lake Tahoe conservationists win crucial court battle to block construction of 760 upscale homes
SFGate: Striking imagery from the Bay Area teen photographing war in Ukraine
SFGate: Wind-whipped NorCal fire pumps out massive smoke cloud, and it's only March
BBC: Ukraine war is economic catastrophe, warns World Bank
BBC: War in Ukraine: The Russians leaving Russia for Finland
ABC News: White House: Congress must act soon to replenish COVID funds
LA Times: ‘We need to do all we can’: Five key takeaways from the U.N. climate report
LA Times: UC Berkeley will increase California students and cut out-of-state ones to meet enrollment cap
The Guardian: BBC, CNN and other global news outlets suspend reporting in Russia
The Guardian: ‘90% of houses are damaged’: Russia’s Syria-honed tactics lay Ukraine towns to waste
KTLA: Rising number of police departments adding jiujitsu training to reduce lawsuits
Reuters: Panasonic plans new massive battery plant in U.S. to supply Tesla -NHK
Courthouse News Service: Nurse practitioners could soon perform abortions solo in California
NPR: Ukrainian heritage is in peril. The Smithsonian hopes to rescue what it can
The Hill: Ukrainian operator says employees at seized nuclear plant are working at 'gunpoint'
Seattle Times: At least 11 advisers told Trump there was no voter fraud, new evidence shows
Politico: Florida lawmakers approve strictest abortion ban in state’s history
Washington Post: Peru: An oil spill upends an ancestral fishing tradition
Washington Post: IRS rushes to hire 10,000 workers but giant backlog could persist through 2022
Washington Post: EXCLUSIVE New video shows Roger Stone working behind the scenes to overturn the 2020 election, secure pardons
BBC: Outrage as Senator Lindsey Graham calls for Putin's assassination
BBC: Ukraine conflict: Before and after images reveal Russian destruction
CNN: Stanford University star soccer player died by suicide, parents tell NBC
LA Times: LA city, county roll out pilot program that sends mental health workers to 911 calls
LA Times: From plague to delicacy — reconsidering the purple sea urchin
LA Times: Russians seize nuclear power plant amid heavy bombardment of Ukraine
Press Democrat: ‘Catastrophic’ fire rips through Larson Family Winery in Sonoma Valley
San Jose Mercury News: 20,000 West Coast port workers refuse to handle Russian cargo
San Jose Mercury News: Feds upgrade popular Marin Headlands trailhead by Marincello
San Jose Mercury News: California plan calls for 2.5 million new homes by 2030, double previous target
San Jose Mercury News: UC Berkeley must freeze enrollment, California Supreme Court rules
The Guardian: Obesity rates likely to double by 2030 with highest rises in lower-income countries
The Guardian: Endangered sharks found in cat and dog food, DNA study shows
The Guardian: California proposal would force unhoused people into treatment
The Guardian: ‘Heartbreaking’: Australia’s east coast reels from worst floods in living memory
Thursday, March 3, 2022
LA Times: SUV crashes into Anderson, California preschool, 14 children taken to hospitals
NY Times: Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Europe’s largest, is on fire, officials say
KRON: Sherri Papini, of Redding, faked her own kidnapping, feds say
Seattle Times: Sean Hannity suggested assassinating Putin. Experts say that’s illegal — and a bad strategy.
Reuters: Tesla to win approval for $5.5 billion Berlin gigafactory on Friday
Reuters: Russian firms rush to open Chinese bank accounts
BBC: Ukraine: Why so many African and Indian students were in the country
NPR: Climate change threatens nearly one third of U.S. hazardous chemical facilities
NPR: 1 million refugees have fled Ukraine in a single week
NPR: 16,000 foreign volunteers are coming to fight for Ukraine, defense ministry says
Washington Post: Alaska oil project would be a disaster of Biden's making, report warns
Washington Post: The gory online campaign Ukraine hopes will sow anti-Putin dissent probably violates the Geneva Conventions