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California Attorney General sues drugmakers over inflated insulin prices

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The official who investigates suspicious deaths in your town may be a doctor — or not

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom McClintock speaks to reporters with his wife Lori after participating in a denate at California State University, Sacramento September 24, 2003 in Sacramento, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Wife of GOP congressman died after taking herbal remedy marketed for diabetes and weight loss

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California Governor Gavin Newsom and Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/David McNew/Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

It’s not just COVID: recall candidates represent markedly different choices on health care

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Another soda tax bill dies. Another win for Big Soda

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California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks in front of the hospital ship USNS Mercy (Carolyn Cole-Pool/Getty Images)

It’s not just QAnon. Democrats and Independents also want to recall California’s governor

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Schools walk the tightrope between ideal safety and the reality of COVID

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How California’s top hospital lobbyist is influencing the state’s COVID response

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Janice Brown hooked up to a dialysis machine in COVID-19 unit isolation room at Desert Valley Medical Group, Victorville. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Dialysis industry spends millions, emerges as power player in California politics

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It’s “more needed than ever”: Lawmakers push for mental health reform in the middle of a pandemic

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Gov. Newsom proposes tax to fund health insurance subsidies

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A picture taken on September 8, 2011 in Paris shows cans of various sodas. After the French government announced on August 24 to tax these products as part of its austerity plan to reduce the national debt, professionals of the industry contested the measure, last of which the US giant Coca-Cola who suspended a 17 million euro (23.780 million US dollars) investment in France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy insisted on September 7 he was determined to push through a balanced budget amendment called "golden rule" despite reports that he might drop the contested plan. AFP PHOTO JOEL SAGET (Photo credit should read JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images) (Joel Saget/Afp/getty Images)

Big Soda pours big bucks into California’s capitol

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A volunteer hands out a poster as Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders was set to address a “Medicare for All” rally in downtown Columbia, S.C. on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018 (AP/Meg Kinnard)

En route to Congress, California Democrats hit wall on “Medicare-for-all”

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In this Dec. 1, 2015 photo, a woman wears a mask to protect herself from pollutants near Tiananmen Gate on a heavily polluted day in Beijing. Episodes of nauseating smog lasting several days has become part of wintertime in the Chinese capital, and for many Beijing residents face masks have become a routine cold-weather accessory, along with hats and gloves. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (AP)

For wildfire safety, only particular masks guard against toxic particulate matter

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California lawmakers seek reparations for people sterilized by the state

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FILE - This Oct. 25, 2010 file photo shows California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman at a campaign stop in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Whitman, conducting the most expensive campaign for governor in U.S. history _ nearly $172 million and counting _ is inundating California voters with an unprecedented array of TV and radio ads, glossy magazines, smartphone messages, Facebook videos, postcards and phone calls that will test how far a Republican dollar can go in a state Democrats call their own. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) (AP)

Poll: Whitman trails Brown by double digits

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