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Where COVID is on the menu: failed contact tracing leaves diners in the dark

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Voting booths in polling place (Getty Images/Hill Street Studios)

Corralling hard-to-reach voters with traveling voting machines

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School districts grapple with quarantines, face masks and fear

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Passengers wear face masks to protect against the spread of the Coronavirus as they arrive on a flight from Asia at Los Angeles International Airport, California, on January 29, 2020. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

Masks signal cultural disconnect as L.A.’s Chinese community braces for coronavirus

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Fecal bacteria in California’s waterways increases with homeless crisis

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As vaping illnesses rise, so do pleas to quit-smoking help lines

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Skin-lightening cream put a woman into a coma. It could happen again.

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