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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
RHBB: Caltrans Needs Your Help to Stop Illegal Dumping Along U.S. 101 in Mendocino County
RHBB: Shamrock Ranch Prescribed Burn Scheduled to Begin Tomorrow
RHBB: SUV on Fire in McKinleyville
RHBB: Missing Elder Found in Submerged Pickup in the Russian River
KTLA: Southern California man sex trafficked, raped woman, before abandoning her in a forest
KTLA: Search continues for missing elderly couple in Southern California
KTLA: 6 hospitalized in downtown Long Beach crash
BBC: Stranded killer whales 'must leave now' as rehoming options shrink
BBC: Judge says US citizen, age 2, may have been deported without 'meaningful process'
SF Gate: Two men rescued from 250-foot mine shaft in remote California desert
SF Gate: Google billionaire steps in to save independent Calif. grocery store
SF Gate: Unique Hybrid: Eureka's drive-through coffee and cannabis joint
SF Gate: Northern California cop accidentally shot inside courthouse
AP News: A massive explosion at an Iranian port possibly linked to missile fuel kills 25, injures some 800
AP News: Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested over expired visa after security check for military housing
AP News: Russia launches nearly 150 drones against Ukraine as Trump doubts Putin’s desire for peace
AP News: Police say 9 people were killed when a car plowed into a Vancouver street festival crowd
East Bay Times: Oakland police to cut off public from live radio feeds, hiding communications from airwaves
East Bay Times: You can learn now when farmers are spraying pesticides near your home. Here’s how.
CBS Bay Area: Caltrans: Illegal hazardous waste dumping in Mendocino County may be tied to Bay Area construction firm
CBS Bay Area: Facing budget deficit, Mendocino County offers workers $25,000 to voluntarily resign
CBS Bay Area: Body of missing Mendocino man found in vehicle that crashed into Russian River
KRON: Body of missing man found in Russian River
Press Democrat: Sonoma Life Support, local arm of ambulance giant AMR, leaving county, 50 workers in line for layoffs
Marin Independent Journal: Trump administration warns Marin schools about DEI programs
Marin Independent Journal: California starts program offering pesticide spraying notifications
RHBB: CAL FIRE Conducting 1,000-Acre Prescribed Burn on Shamrock Ranch Starting April 28
RHBB: Pulikla Tribe of Yurok People Addresses Claims Regarding Marine Stewardship Area