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Tuesday, April 29

AP News: Decision looming for Trump administration on first PFAS drinking water limits

AP News: Speedboat goes airborne, spins in air while trying to break a speed record in Arizona

AP News: Canada’s Liberals celebrate a stunning win and the populist challenger loses his seat

CBS San Diego: Woman accused of killing CAL FIRE captain appears in court in wheelchair

Sacramento Bee: What are California’s most polluted cities? See worst offenders for air quality

KRCR: Trump administration cuts funding to CASA, sparking nationwide concern

KRCR: Promising signs for 2026 after California closes commercial salmon season for the year

Sacramento Bee: Why did Elon Musk spend nearly $1 million to help elect David Valadao?

KRCR: Man arraigned in Chico for allegedly attempting to snatch 3-year-old from mother's arms

KRCR: Tribal Chairman reacts to Trump's choice to reverse Indigenous People's Day

CBS Bay Area: Warming rivers threaten fly fishing industry in California, across country

KTLA: About 55,000 Los Angeles County workers go on strike, pausing some services

KTLA: Here’s how California’s license plates will look different next year

SF Gate: Authorities arrest suspect tied to double homicide in Santa Cruz Mountains

SF Gate: California man charged in 2004 rape and killing, police believe more victims out there

East Bay Times: Where We Live: Ancient trees still survive in the bustling Bay Area

CBS : Benicia community coming to grips with potential closure of refinery

CBS News : Man suspected of double murder in Santa Cruz Mountains arrested

CBS News : FBI arrests alleged South Lake Tahoe fentanyl dealer linked to 4 overdose deaths

KRON: Lafayette police arrest man in string of burglaries across Bay Area cities

East Bay Times: 50-year legacy: Vietnamese boat people thrive as Monterey fishermen

East Bay Times: Judge orders involuntary medication of California conspiracy theorist charged with killing his 2 kids in Mexico

Marin Independent Journal: Struggling Tiburon movie theater gets help from neighbors

East Bay Times: 2 teens ejected from car that flew off California freeway ramp during police pursuit

East Bay Times: DOGE cuts hit San Jose State, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco. Researcher says: ‘I don’t know that they understood what I was doing’

SF Gate: After decades in storage, fossilized tracks unlock ancient secrets in Oregon

KPIX: FDA to undo some layoffs, after cuts to inspections and drug safety

Sunday, April 27

The Atlantic: How Drug Cartels Took Over Social Media

The Atlantic: What Porn Did to American Culture

The Atlantic: American Panopticon: The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.

Oregon Public Broadcasting: How Oregon became a world-class cheese state

Grist: A forthcoming Supreme Court decision could limit agencies’ duty to consider environmental harms

Grist: Balcony solar took off in Germany. Why not the US?

Indian Country Today: In Wyoming, the Eastern Shoshone tribe decided to classify buffalo as wildlife. Here is why

The Oregonian: Disgraced ex-congressman sobs as he hears sentence three times longer than what defense sought

The Hill: How Trump’s tariffs are snarling supply chains

The Hill: Homan says having US-born children does not make people ‘immune’ from deportation

The Hill: Greenland prime minister says US has ‘not been respectful’, island can’t be bought by ‘just anyone’

Courthouse News Service: Oregon tribe spars with power company over fishing platform at center of land fight

Courthouse News Service: Portland, where the pinball never rests

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Homes destroyed and 1,500 detained in Kashmir as India cracks down following attacks on tourists

BBC: German defence minister says Ukraine should not agree to sweeping territorial concessions

The Oregonian: WWII bomber found on Pacific Ocean floor — with a bomb still attached and vintage car on board

The Oregonian: A Chinese mitten crab was caught in the Columbia River. Here’s how to spot the prohibited species

KTLA: Women take center stage in Southern California fire academy

AP News: Suspect arrested in Homeland Security Secretary Noem’s purse theft

SF Gate: 'Unfathomable': Calif. woman faces deportation for decades-old conviction

KTLA: Southern California man sex trafficked, raped woman, before abandoning her in a forest

KTLA: Search continues for missing elderly couple in Southern California