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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, Aug. 5

KTVU: Sheriff helicopter rescues Point Reyes hikers stranded on remote beach

NBC News: Scientists say they've found out what killed over 5 billion sea stars

Sunday, Aug. 3

BBC: BBC finds electrocuted, drowned and starved cats in online torture groups

KCRA: Swedish company tests electric ferry on Lake Tahoe Play Video

KRON: SF police seize 100 nitrous oxide tanks, balloons near Dead & Company concert

KTLA: 3 injured as massive Gifford Fire expands, evacs ordered on Central Coast

KTLA: Northern California ATM bombing leads to arrest in Newport Beach

The Guardian: World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

NY Times : A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

The Cool Down: Scientists issue warning after uncovering alarming data from mountain summit — here's what you need to know

Politico: DOJ is walking back the White House’s goal to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day

NPR: Chile's plunging birth rate may foreshadow future in U.S.

The Guardian: Monarch butterflies’ mass die-off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study

NY Times : Experts Raise Concerns Over Trump’s White House Ballroom Renovation Plans

Action News: 28 fires started by lightning on Klamath National Forest over last five days

Action News: California Department of Insurance expanding coverage for those in wildfire-distressed areas

Action News Shasta: Almost half million in cash and firearms seized during cannabis raids in Redding

NPR: El Salvador approves indefinite presidential reelection, extends presidential terms

NY Times : Inside the ‘Radical Transformation’ of America’s Environmental Role

Washington Post: He left Iran 40 years ago. He may be deported to Romania. Or Australia.

Washington Post: Reeling over alleged child sex ring, Alabama community asks: ‘Did no one know?’

Washington Post: America is becoming a nation of homebodies

NPR: Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to 'go to hell'

NPR: Who's the top dog? Wave-riding canines compete in the World Dog Surfing Championships

NY Times : Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

NY Times : States Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It.

AP News: At this summer camp run by grandmas, kids learn cooking skills and life advice

AP News: South Africa starts injecting rhino horns with radioactive material to curb poaching

The Guardian: Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation

KTLA: Adult great white shark seen just 50 yards off Santa Monica beach

KTLA: 1 teen killed, 2 injured in Coachella shooting, officials say

Reuters: The US said it had no choice but to deport them to a third country. Then it sent them home

Reuters: Tens of thousands join pro-Palestinian march over Sydney Harbour Bridge

Seattle Times: Baker River sockeye storm back in record run — overcoming 2 dams

The Guardian: Big tech has spent $155bn on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more

The Guardian: After nearly 100 years, adult winter-run Chinook salmon seen in California river

The Atlantic: The Mystery of the Strong Economy Has Finally Been Solved: It Wasn't

The Guardian: Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for Ice: ‘They thought they could scare us – but this is LA’

BBC: Crowds cheer 100th annual wild pony swim

BBC: Melting glaciers threaten to wipe out European villages - is the steep cost to protect them worth it?

BBC: Watch: How many pull-ups can you do? Trump revives fitness test for school kids

Courthouse News Service: Eyes on the sky: Humans to blame for steep decline in common birds

Courthouse News Service: Conservation groups sue to stop ‘Cyclone Bill’ logging project in Montana

OPB: Chinook salmon fishing returning to the Coquille river

The Guardian: Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels

The Guardian: Police continue to search for Montana gunman who killed four people in a bar

OPB: Oregonians could soon have less input on more than half the land in the state

OPB: Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it’s shutting down

The Oregonian: Oregon Jewish Museum defaced with swastikas; police seek help in similar incident elsewhere

Courthouse News Service: Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight