Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
NY Times: Elon Musk Impostors Scammed $2 Million in Cryptocurrency, U.S. Says
Washington Post: Republicans divided over whether to support Jan. 6 commission
The Guardian: Black homeowner says her appraisal doubled after she didn’t declare her race
Washington Post: E.U. to reopen borders to those with accepted vaccines
The Guardian: Robert Durst murder trial reopens after 14 months recess because of pandemic
The Hill: Abortion rights groups warn of imminent crackdown if Roe v. Wade overturned
The Guardian: ‘It’s barbaric’: some US children getting hit at school despite bans
The Guardian: ‘Privacy by design’: Google to give people more power over their personal data
The Guardian: New York attorney general opens criminal investigation into Trump Organization
The Oregonian: Oregon hires independent expert to review controversial hazard tree removal program
The Oregonian: Silent no more: Klamath Tribes want voice heard on water basin issues
The Hill: White House reinstates climate adviser removed by Trump
Outside Online: Killing Cyclists Is As American As Mass Shootings
KCRA: 2 teens shot by Stanislaus deputies after lengthy pursuit
East Bay Times: Video: See how drought is spreading across California and the West
East Bay Times: Birthday celebration ends in tragedy: Two teens killed, five others wounded aboard Oakland party bus
LA Times: CBP discovers $5.5 million of meth in Otay Mesa medical supply shipment
LA Times: Navajo Nation surpasses Cherokee to become largest tribe in the U.S.
LA Times: Threats, videos and a recall: A California militia fuels civic revolt in a red Shasta County
Press Democrat: Sonoma County halts move to streamline cannabis farm rules, calls for extensive study
KRCR: Investigators find over 1,700 marijuana plants on Cottonwood property, three men arrested
Mt. Shasta News: Crystal Geyser pulls out of Mount Shasta water bottling plant
SF Chronicle: National cycling champion dies after being struck by car while training in Colorado
SF Chronicle: Psst, Redwood National Park has a secret 'superbloom.' Don't ruin it.
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
NY Times: No Longer the ‘Devil’s Lettuce’: How the Town of Weed Embraced Weed
NY Times: Live Updates: Humanitarian Catastrophe Deepens in Gaza
The Hill: Republicans eye new House majority through redistricting
The Hill: Top Japanese doctors' group calling for Olympics to be canceled
Native News Oline: Turtle Mountain Descendant Dies by Suicide After Guilty Verdict in Federal Court
Washington Post: The jury reached a guilty verdict. Then the defendant fatally cut his own throat in a federal courtroom.
Washington Post: A ‘narrow’ pathway to a net zero future for greenhouse gases, IEA says
The Guardian: Nasa leads push for electric planes in next frontier of cutting emissions
The Guardian: Parent trap: why the cult of the perfect mother has to end
The Guardian: Ordered online, assembled at home: the deadly toll of California’s ‘ghost guns’
The Guardian: Leonardo DiCaprio pledges $43m to restore the Galápagos Islands
The Guardian: ‘Alarm bells are ringing’: activists brace for US abortion case that could rip up precedent
Press Democrat: Protesters decry cannabis farms ahead of Sonoma County supervisors hearing
Marin Independent Journal: Lumber prices soar, threatening Bay Area home projects
Marin Independent Journal: Sonoma to cut Marin water imports this summer
Sacramento Bee: Rural California could lose thousands of jobs as prisons close. What can the state do?
LA Times: Don’t throw away that mask just yet. California won’t lift COVID-19 rules for another month
LA Times: California’s next climate challenge: Replacing its last nuclear power plant
Popular Mechanics: The Holy Grail Is Here: A Stable, Solid-State, Lithium-Metal Battery
NY Times: From India, Brazil and Beyond: Pandemic Refugees at the Border
Vox: The FCC’s big bet on Elon Musk's Starlink Internet Project
Monday, May 17, 2021
The Guardian: ‘This is environmental racism’: activists call on Biden to stop new plastics plants in ‘Cancer Alley’
The Guardian: Twenty firms produce 55% of world’s plastic waste, report reveals
The Hill: Chernobyl is showing signs of a possible new nuclear accident
Huffington Post: AT&T Signs Deal To Combine Media Operations, Including CNN, With Discovery