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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

BBC: 'Humans need solitude': How being alone can make you happier

KTLA: Local officials say ICE ‘loitered near schools’ in Ventura County raids

Politico: Trump administration considers slashing federal education money for California

Courthouse News Service: Brooklyn jury finds CA ‘sex cult’ leaders guilty of forced labor conspiracy

Courthouse News Service: New York judge allows Trump to sue his own niece while in office

Courthouse News Service: ICE arrests at Omaha meatpacking plant unnerve city

The Guardian: Fact-check: Trump’s speech at Fort Bragg contained lies and conspiracy theories about LA

Washington Post: Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of US allies

The Hill: National Guard, Marines deployed to LA come with hefty price tag

Reuters: Russia and Ukraine exchange sick and wounded prisoners of war

The Hill: California scientists sound alarm on role of pesticides in raising resistance to antifungal drugs

The Atlantic: Get Ready to Hear a Lot More About Your Mitochondria

The Atlantic: The Wyoming Hospital Upending the Logic of Private Equity

The Atlantic: Trump vs. California

Washington Post: Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.

NPR: Trump using National Guard in LA is an 'abuse of power,' says national security expert

NPR: 5 simple (and cheap) things to make your house use less energy

NPR: Drug deaths plummet among young Americans as fentanyl carnage eases

Reuters: Los Angeles ICE raids fuel controversy over masked agents

Politico: California Forever offers to purchase small-town properties as part of annexation deal

The Hill: Trump’s immigration restrictions are pushing Corporate America into remote work faster

The Hill: Senate GOP deeply divided over cutting cost of ‘big, beautiful bill’

BBC: Perfect storm as Trump's mass deportation drive collides with city of immigrants

AP News: Netanyahu’s government could collapse over ultra-Orthodox military draft law

AP News: Israel deports Greta Thunberg after Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized

AP News: Scammers are using AI to enroll fake students in online classes, then steal college financial aid

The Oregonian: 3-year-old dies after wandering out of The Dalles hotel

KCRA: Six killed in small plane crash off the San Diego coast

The Guardian: University of Michigan ends undercover surveillance contracts after Guardian revelations

The Guardian: US to put four prisoners to death this week as Trump pushes for executions

CBS San Diego: Green partnership | Plant roots and fungi join forces for sustainable future crops

KCRA: Upcoming Stockton Cruise Night canceled after May event turned violent, organizers say

East Bay Times: 700 Marines from Twentynine Palms given greenlight to deploy to support National Guard in L.A.

East Bay Times: ‘They eat everything’: Wild pigs increase around the Bay Area, causing headaches for homeowners, parks and water agencies

East Bay Times: One of the greatest Bay Area musicians of all time has died at 82

East Bay Times: Hundreds gather in San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco to protest ICE

KRCR: California launches strike team to combat gray wolf attacks on livestock

KRCR: Swimmer's itch plagues Shasta County residents seeking relief from heat

Marin Independent Journal: A school shooting in the Austrian city of Graz leaves 9 people and the suspected gunman dead

CBS LA: California union leader faces federal charge after arrest at immigration enforcement operation

KTLA: Protesters set off fireworks in Orange County after ICE raids confirmed

NBC LA: ‘I can't fight back; I'm pregnant.' US citizen detained by ICE in Hawthorne

NBC LA: LA prosecutors to start combing through social media to catch violent protesters

SF Gate: The situation at Calif.'s most contaminated lake is likely worse than we thought

The Guardian: LA protests: Trump sends thousands more troops in ‘authoritarian’ move

CBS News : Sacramento protesters demand end to ICE raids, stand in solidarity with Los Angeles

SF Gate: San Francisco police arrest more anti-ICE protesters than Los Angeles

SF Gate: Search underway for visitor who fell over waterfall at Olympic National Park

KTLA: Overnight looting follows 4th day of anti-ICE protests in Downtown L.A.; Bass blames raids

SF Gate: A new twist in the saga of San Francisco's most controversial monument