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Happening Now – July 2019

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Latest Regional

Open Mic Night at the Madelyn Helling Library on July 25th

Seasonably warm air temperatures continue, cold water temperatures persist too

Nevada City Mayor Reinette Senum: The counter-intuitive act of raising parking meters fees

Hospitality House Awarded Peace Officer Standards and Training Grant

Reinette Senum’s Alaska Revisited returns to the Nevada Theater

Study Bolsters Case That Climate Change Drives Many Calif. Wildfires

California

AG Becerra Defends CA Law that Bans the Acquisition, Possession of Large-Capacity Magazines

Southwest Region Areas to Endure 7 Weeks or More a Year When “Feels Like” Temperature Exceeds 105 Degrees

Study: More than 200,000 Californians lacked toilets or hot and cold running water in 2015

Lawsuit Settled Between National Park Service, DNC Parks and Resorts, and Yosemite Hospitality, LLC Over Trademarks and Service Marks

Gov. Newsom Fires Oil Regulator, Institutes Sweeping Ethics Review of Agency

USA

Full ‘Squad’ Press Conference In Response To President Donald Trump’s Attacks

Prosecution of Sex Trafficking of Children is Down Nationwide

AILA: Administration’s New Rule Is the Latest Attempt to End Asylum

New Rule Flouts Asylum Rules, Says Human Rights Watch

Trump Administration slashes resettlement of religious minorities

Op-Ed

Maribel Hastings: Trump’s racial strategy of “them against us” is more alive than ever

Rob Boston: Religious Right Silence Enables Trump’s Racism

The Guardian: Donald Trump: a racist in substance and style

Jamil Dakwar and Sonia Gill: Pompeo’s New “Human Rights” Commission is Up To No Good

Trevor Timm: Tell Rep. Adam Schiff to Remove This Dangerous Secrecy Provision From This Year’s Intelligence Bill

World

UN Refugee Agency deeply concerned about new U.S. asylum restrictions

US Objects to New Global Rules to Better Control Exports of Contaminated and Mixed Plastic Waste

20 million children miss out on lifesaving measles, diphtheria and tetanus vaccines in 2018

Occupied Palestinian Territory: UN human rights expert says Israel bent on further annexation

Syria: US Coalition Should Address Civilian Harm

Enviro

Why Carbon Pricing Is Not Sufficient on Its Own to Combat Climate Change

Promised Crackdown on National Park Overflights Yet to Take Off

1.8 Million Americans Speak Out Against Stripping Federal Protections from Wolves

EPA Plans to Skew Permit Appeals to Aid Polluters

Washington DFW Orders Killing of OPT Pack Wolves

Sci-Tech

ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019

Vast Majority Of Dietary Supplements Don’t Improve Heart Health or Put Off Death

Out of Africa and into an archaic human melting pot

Historic Heat in Alaska

Instability in Antarctic Ice Projected to Make Sea Level Rise Rapidly

Life

AAA: Vehicle escape tools effective in breaking tempered side windows, but not laminated

UC’s showdown with the biggest academic publisher aims to change scholarly publishing for good

What’s the difference between weather and climate?

Screen size matters: Consumers less attentive to news content on small screens

UC Davis releases five new strawberry varieties

Cartoons

White nationalism

Trump Kicks McCain Headstone

John McCain

Jacksonville Prayers

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