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Tuesday, Aug. 20

Courthouse News Service: Protesters rally in Chicago ahead of packed DNC week

Courthouse News Service: Judge temporarily halts mining project surrounding indigenous cultural site

Vox: The surprising truth about loneliness in America

Vox: Republicans ask the Supreme Court to disenfranchise thousands of swing state voters

AP News: Too many people, not enough management: A look at the chaos of ‘overtourism’ in the summer of 2024

LA Times: After 25 years, I wanted to quit drinking and couldn’t. Here’s how I finally got sober

LA Times: Kelseyville: A town’s name recalls the massacre of Indigenous people. Will changing it bring healing?

LA Times: Cat-killing sheriff’s deputies back on the job in Kern County

LA Times: Nearly $1 billion in funds left unspent by centers for disabled Californians

KTLA: Toddler trapped in locked car rescued by Southern California firefighters

Courthouse News Service: Trump-backed Georgia election board OKs additional certification requirements

KTLA: UC president calls on chancellors to enforce rules banning encampments, masking, blocking paths

KTLA: California inmate transferred from L.A. County killed in violent attack

KRCR: New cardroom to host premier poker tournaments and events in Eureka

KRCR: New team opens up Sundial Film Festival to global filmmakers for 2025 return

The Guardian: Nearly half of New Zealanders say government policies increasing racial tensions, poll finds

The Guardian: Democrats raise alarm as states accused of warning employers before ‘surprise inspections’

Sacramento Bee: Screams from manhole lead rescuers to man caught in pipe, California firefighters say

Sacramento Bee: Sacramento County man gets 40 years in prison for using Snapchat to ‘sextort’ minors

East Bay Times: ‘A game changer’: How giant batteries are making California’s power grid stronger, and reducing the risk of blackouts during heat waves

Press Democrat: San Leandro man charged in Windsor attempted ATM theft

Press Democrat: Firefighters significantly tame California's fourth-largest wildfire on record

KRON: Driverless Waymo cars still honking despite software fix

KQED: SF Encampment Crackdown Gets Tents, But Not People, Off the Streets, Neighbors Say

KQED: A Push to Curb Solitary Confinement in California Prisons Hits a Wall

East Bay Times: FBI truck burglarized in San Francisco; suspect claimed he traded valuable ballistics vest for $20 meth sack

East Bay Times: Big Basin Redwoods State Park rebuilding plans unveiled four years after massive wildfire

East Bay Times: Increase in e-bike injuries spurs Bay Area cities to take another look at regulation

SF Chronicle: Last private island in San Francisco Bay has a buyer, agent confirms

SF Gate: San Francisco police crack down on shoplifting, leading to 61 arrests

SF Gate: Popular Central Coast beach closes after dozens of sea lions appear

Sunday, Aug. 18

CBS Idaho: Active-duty military deploying to Idaho to fight wildfires in national forests

NBC News: Extreme heat at Colorado airshow sickens about 100 people, with 10 hospitalized, officials say

Business Record: Faaborg family in Radcliffe transitions pig operation to mushroom business at 1100 Farm

NY Times : A struggling Iowa family trades its hogs for mushrooms

Courthouse News Service: California unemployment rate holds steady for 3rd straight month

Courthouse News Service: Banana wilt is threatening the world’s most popular variety of the fruit, scientists say

The Guardian: US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court’s Chevron ruling

Phys.Org: Scientists achieve rapid upcycling of microplastics to graphene

Rolling Stone: People Are Trying Magic Mushrooms for Depression — and Accidentally Meeting God

NPR: Burning Man contends with unusually slow ticket sales

The Guardian: Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America

The Guardian: Slow the growth, save the world? Why declining birth rates need not mean an end to prosperity

Washington Post: Watch how a father’s risky plan to save his house from the Park Fire paid off

NY Times : Salmon Farms in Patagonia Face Growing Opposition

Washington Post: The greatest sneaker show on Earth lands in D.C.

Washington Post: Kushner’s planned Albanian resort draws scrutiny of foreign funds, environmental impact

NY Times : Local News Is Dying, but Not in San Francisco

The Guardian: Boomers are selling businesses to millennials in a generational handover

CNN: Video: 'A surreal feeling': 15-year-old named TIME's 2024 Kid of the Year after new invention