Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021
Courthouse News Service: Apple to pay $30 million to employees subjected to off-the-clock searches
The Oregonian: Jackson County seeking $7 million to tackle illegal marijuana grows
The Oregonian: Police arrest Redway man with $2.2 million worth of marijuana after stopping U-Haul truck
The Intercept: THE MAIN DRIVER OF INFLATION IS A MURDEROUS MANIAC IN RIYADH
Digg: The Ocean Cleanup Reveals The Thousands Of Eel Traps It's Found In The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
KRCR: Recovery work begins on 69% of Lassen National Park affected by Dixie Fire
KRON: ‘Sudden genius syndrome’ robbery victim uses math to find new life in Indiana
KRON: Ex-NBA player apologizes after daughter punches 15-year-old girl during basketball game
Press Democrat: Drought uncovers long-ago family homestead site hidden beneath Lake Mendocino
SFGate: A NorCal butterfly sanctuary didn't see a single monarch in 2020. This year, there's thousands.
SF Chronicle: Car strikes 2 CHP officers, 3 Golden Gate Bridge workers as they controlled crowd at anti-vax rally
KTLA: Partial lunar eclipse, longest since nearly 600 years ago, to occur during next full moon
US News: How Fast Fashion Dumps Into the Global South
US News: Alzheimer's Drug Cited as Medicare Premium Jumps by $21.60
Friday, Nov. 12, 2021
BBC: Rare Antarctic penguin accidentally travels 3,000km to New Zealand
Fox News: Austria set to impose nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated
Courthouse News Service: Remember measles? Another school vaccine showdown gets underway
Mt. Shasta News: CHP: $450,000 worth of drugs found during vehicle stop on I-5 near Weed
LA Times: Britney Spears’ conservatorship ends after 13 years
LA Times: CDC shifts pandemic goals away from reaching herd immunity
KTLA: Crews halt progress of 17-acre Middle Fire on Catalina Island
KRCR: Two Washington boys stuck in storm drain rescued by emergency crews
Press Democrat: 2 CHP officers, Golden Gate Bridge staff injured in vaccine mandates protest
SFGate: 2 CHP officers, 3 others injured after crash on Golden Gate Bridge during anti-vax march
The Guardian: In southern California forest officials back culling trees. Locals are furious
The Guardian: These maps show how Republicans are blatantly rigging elections
The Guardian: Newly translated letters offer indigenous take of Brazil’s bloody birth
NPR: How $6 billion from Elon Musk could feed millions on the brink of famine
NPR: A teacher who devotes herself to immigrants in Maryland just won a $1 million prize
NPR: A 105-year-old runner created a new age bracket for the 100m — and set the record
Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021
KTLA: Feds block $12 billion in public transit funding for California
KTLA: Stolen car with baby inside crashes into power pole in Placer County
KTLA: 7 high school students arrested in string of on-campus assaults at Santa Barbara County school
Washington Post: An Air Force sergeant killed himself on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The note he left is heartbreaking.
Washington Post: River in India sacred to Hindus blanketed in toxic white foam
NY Times: Outside Climate Summit, Trash in Glasgow Piles High
Washington Post: ‘I think we should throw those books in a fire’: Movement builds on right to target books
KRCR: Oregon couple arrested near Parks Creek on drug trafficking charges
The Guardian: The earth’s secret miracle weapon is not a plant or an animal: it’s fungi
The Guardian: Why it's so hard to electrify shipping and aviation
The Guardian: Fatty acid found in palm oil linked to spread of cancer
The Guardian: As Covid recedes in US a new worry emerges: wildlife passing on the virus
LA Times: 12 years after this teen was locked up, the prosecutor who convicted him changed his mind
CNBC: EV start-up Rivian is valued at $86 billion after market debut, higher than Ford
Slate: What Really Made Astroworld So Deadly
Press Democrat: California roadkill report names deadliest highways, costs
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021
KTVU: Ex-Windsor mayor's home raided by criminal investigators