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Happening Now – January 2020

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Latest Regional

Facing EPA Superfund Designation, RISE Gold Compelled To Clean Up Existing Idaho-Maryland Mine Tailings

Plane crash fatalities identified

Take Charge of Your Diabetes with Upcoming Class

Nevada and Placer Counties Resource Advisory Committee Public Meeting

Ladysmith Black Mambazo at The Center for the Arts on Feb. 18

Local quilters donate mounds of love to Shriners Hospital

California

Klamath National Forest mourns the loss of Coulson Aviation Tanker 134 in Australia

California unemployment holds at record low 3.9 percent in December

Why California is banning chlorpyrifos, a widely-used pesticide: 5 questions answered

Covered California’s New Enrollment Surges Past Last Year’s Mark

Statement from Governor Gavin Newsom and CAL FIRE Chief Thom Porter on C-130 Hercules Air Tanker Crash in Australia

USA

Live video U.S. Senate: Impeachment Trial (Day 6)

Live video U.S. Senate: Impeachment Trial (Day 5)

Trump administration does NRA’s bidding when making potentially harmful decisions about public land, wildlife policy

C-130 Aircraft Incident Update from Coulson Aviation

Giffords Denounces New Trump Administration Regulation Eroding the Oversight of Firearm Exports

Op-Ed

Michelle Bachelet: 75 years after Auschwitz – Holocaust Education and Remembrance for Global Justice

Will Ragland and Ryan Koronowski: Public Officials Who Betray the Public Trust Pay the Price—So Should the President

Robert Reich: How Trump Manufactured the Hunter Biden-Ukraine Scandal (VIDEO)

Karen Baynes-Dunning: Dr. King’s words inspire us to act

Jeremy Venook and Max Bergmann: Impeachment Trial Witnesses: Who the Senate Should Call and What They Know

World

World Leprosy Day: UN expert calls on States to end discrimination against affected women and children

World Court Rules Against Myanmar on Rohingya

Commemorating 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, UN experts call for urgent action to combat antisemitism

Doomsday Clock Changed: It Is Now 100 Seconds From Midnight – Twin Threats of Nuclear War, Climate Change Seen as Worsening

Large aircraft incident, New South Wales

Enviro

World's first public database of mine tailings dams aims to prevent deadly disasters

Sea-Level Rise Could Reshape the United States, Trigger Migration Inland

Lawsuit Launched to Prevent Forest Service From Killing 72 Grizzlies Near Yellowstone

EPA Political Appointees Violate Science Integrity Rules

Caterpillar loss in tropical forest linked to extreme rain, temperature events

Sci-Tech

Living near major roads linked to risk of dementia, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and MS

Marburg virus found in Sierra Leone bats

Deforestation in Bolivia

Snakes could be the original source of the new coronavirus outbreak in China

Galileo now replying to SOS messages worldwide

Life

MIT Study: Commercial air travel is safer than ever

American households waste, on average, almost a third of the food they acquire

International NGO leaders at Davos tell ISOC, ICANN: Selling .ORG puts civil society at risk

What Americans Know About the Holocaust

Initiative helps the public understand how news works in the digital age

Cartoons

Dave Whamond – Trump has all the evidence

Adam Zyglis – Sham process

John Cole – Trump golf costs vs salary

Dersh by David Fitzsimmons

Bill Day – Turtle Food

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