Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Sunday, June 1, 2025
KRON: Roughly 60 firefighters battling vegetation fire in Oakland Hills
KRON: Bay Area preserve named top spot for ‘glamping’
SF Gate: Another Bay Area city adding red-light cameras to catch drivers
East Bay Times: Six gray whales wash up dead around San Francisco Bay in one week
East Bay Times: Dozens of Bay Area cities land on list of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’
Press Democrat: All aboard! SMART debuts train service to Windsor
SF Gate: San Francisco life coach arrested on suspicion of killing four men
The Guardian: Student loan plan in Republican bill could worsen doctor shortage, experts warn
Thursday, May 29, 2025
ABC News: Home sellers now outnumber buyers by largest margin in 12 years, report finds
The Verge: How private equity kills companies and communities
Axios: NYT reaches AI licensing deal with Amazon
AP News: Trump administration increases pressure on ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ with public listing
Lookout Santa Cruz: Trump’s research cuts drive young UCSC astronomers to leave U.S. in search of academic careers
PBS News: What Republicans’ possible Medicaid cuts could mean for nursing homes
CBS : U.S. Alaska man unscathed after being pinned for hours by 700-pound boulder
SF Gate: Abandoned car near Death Valley triggers search for missing North Carolina woman
Reuters: US proposes 60-day ceasefire for Gaza, plan shows
AP News: Ford recalls more than a million vehicles for software glitch that makes rearview camera unreliable
AP News: A 700-pound boulder pins Alaska man face-down in a glacier creek for three hours
AP News: Bernard Kerik, who led NYPD on 9/11 before prison and pardon, has died at 69
The Guardian: Trump administration sets quota to arrest 3,000 people a day in anti-immigration agenda
SF Gate: Appeals court revives Native American challenge to $10B SunZia energy transmission project
SF Gate: Trump admin's promised national parks hiring hasn’t actually happened
SF Gate: UC San Francisco study uncovers troubling new cannabis health risk
Smithsonian Magazine: Once in Dire Straits, Atlantic Sturgeon Are Staging a Comeback on the East Coast
The Atlantic: The Talented Mr. Vance
The Guardian: Pro-Palestine group targets Jewish-owned business in London
PBS News: Exploring the potential impact of Medicaid cuts in Trump’s big budget bill
NPR: Tate brothers face rape and trafficking charges in U.K.
KQED: California’s Pelicans Are Once Again Starving. This Year, It’s the Babies
Oregon Public Broadcasting: Double threat of Cascadia earthquake and sea-level rise could change Pacific Northwest coast forever
NPR: They've tracked Americans' drug use for decades. Trump and RFK Jr. fired them
NPR: American doctors look to relocate to Canada to avoid the Trump administration
The Atlantic: J. D. Vance’s Bargain With the Devil
The Guardian: Trump has no plan for who will work on US farms: ‘There is just flat out nobody to work’
The Guardian: Trump laments size of ‘much too big’ airplane gifted by Qatar
The Guardian: Thousands in Canada’s Manitoba ordered to evacuate in wildfire emergency
Washington Post: To see the problem with Trump’s endowment tax, look at who’s exempt
Reuters: 'I lost everything': Swiss residents in shock after glacier debris buries village
The Atlantic: The Perilous Spread of the Wellness Craze
The Atlantic: Striking Down Trump’s Tariffs Isn’t a Judicial Coup
Reuters: US Supreme Court limits environmental reviews in Utah railway ruling
The Guardian: Netanyahu tells hostages’ families that Israel has accepted ceasefire proposal from US, say reports
The Guardian: Sexual exploitation and domestic violence soared after Lahaina wildfire, report finds
Reuters: Afghans in Kentucky fear for future after Trump strips deportation protections
BBC: Watch: Severe storm hammers Austin with hail, wind
Spokane Spokesman-Review: Columbia River salmon restoration hit hard by $1.5B cut to Army Corps of Engineers
Spokane Spokesman-Review: Wave of disenrollments by WA’s Squaxin Island Tribe roils community
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