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Tuesday, Jan. 7

Reuters: US opens probe 2.6 million Tesla vehicles over remote driving feature

AP News: Getty Images buying Shutterstock to create a $3.7 billion visual content company

KEZI: Corvallis residents say collapse of train trestle is no big surprise

OPB: Jimmy Carter's funeral services begin in Washington, D.C., today

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Corvallis trestle collapse sends freight train into river

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Tribes, environmentalists gather forces against Amazon’s Northwest nuclear plan

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Portland utility heads to trial over tribal fishing platform at Willamette Falls

Courthouse News Service: Surgeon General calls for new label on drinks to warn Americans of alcohol’s cancer risk

The Guardian: Sugary drinks linked to millions of new diabetes and heart disease cases – study

The Guardian: Thailand bans imports of plastic waste to curb toxic pollution

AP News: Smart bird feeders gain popularity and spark interest in bird-watching

AP News: Mexico drops migrants in troubled resort as it disperses them far from US border

AP News: Strong earthquake kills at least 126 people in western China near Mount Everest

Courthouse News Service: Disney strikes deal to combine Hulu + Live TV with FuboTV, ending antitrust suit

SF Gate: 2 arrested on suspicion of $1,200 meat heist at Bay Area Safeway

Courthouse News Service: First US bird flu death is announced in Louisiana

Courthouse News Service: Fewer than 1 in 1,000 US adolescents receive gender-affirming medications, researchers find

The Guardian: Strongest winds in over a decade could bring fire risk to southern California

The Guardian: ‘People feel they don’t owe anyone anything’: the rise in ‘flaking’ out of social plans

Sacramento Bee: See video footage that led to Bidwell arson suspect’s arrest: ‘Connecting the dots’

East Bay Times: Cal Fire moves resources to Southern California as agencies brace for extreme winds

LA Times: San Diego State fraternity brothers face felony charges after pledge is badly burned

LA Times: Opinion: If ‘Baby Shark’ represents the worst of children’s music, this is the genre’s best

SF Gate: Mother arrested after 11-year-old boy found dead inside trailer in Sutter County

LA Times: ‘Life-threatening’ winds, power shutoffs hitting Southern California: Here’s the forecast

KTLA: Dirt bike riders race through food court of busy Southern California mall

KRON: Fremont police credit Prop 36 for 9 shoplifting arrests

KRON: Motorcyclist goes 100+ mph while evading Sonoma County deputies

Marin Independent Journal: Living with too much stuff

Marin Independent Journal: Marin site draws ‘raw water’ seekers who don’t want tap

The Guardian: Tibet earthquake: scores dead and hundreds of homes damaged

Press Democrat: Menndocino sisters explore unsolved murder of Humboldt County rancher in documentary ‘High Country Murder’

Press Democrat: Sebastopol to enforce RV parking ordinance, notify homeless they have 72 hours to move

SF Gate: Surfer comes face-to-face with great white shark near popular Bay Area beach

BBC: US sends 11 Guantanamo detainees to Oman

BBC: Meta platforms ditching third-party fact checking

BBC: Tibet earthquake rescuers search for survivors in freezing temperatures

KRCR: Biden will honor tribal requests by designating 2 new national monuments in California

KRCR: New state law requiring Native American perspectives in CA history curriculum

Sunday, Jan. 5

BBC: 'Humans are all they know' - Fate of whales uncertain as marine zoo shuts

Washington Post: Tuna weighing as much as a grizzly bear sells for $1.3 million in Japan

the Atlantic: Parents, Put Down Your Phone Cameras

the Atlantic: Invisible Habits Are Driving Your Life

the Atlantic: Against Guilty History Settler-colonial should be a description, not an insult.

SF Gate: California has a palm tree problem

The Guardian: ‘The dead zone is real’: why US farmers are embracing wildflowers

The Guardian: ‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows

PsyPost: Scientists discover a fascinating fact about the brain’s of meditators

The Guardian: ‘It’s not just alerts, it’s a state of mind’: How a wildfire monitoring app became essential in the US west

The Guardian: Social order in Gaza will collapse if Israel ends cooperation with UN aid agency, official says