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California Facing Chance of Blackouts Amid Brutal Heat Wave
Authorities say California will face its highest chance of blackouts this week as a brutal heat wave continues to blanket the state with triple-digit heat.
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California Health System Buckling Under COVID-19 Pandemic
Top executives from the state’s largest hospital systems —Kaiser Permanente, Dignity Health and Sutter Health, which together cover 15 million Californians — said Tuesday that increasingly exhausted staff, many pressed into service outside their normal duties, are now attending to COVID-19 patients stacked up in hallways and conference rooms.
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Man Who Claimed Innocence Leaves Prison After 27 Years
A California man who spent a quarter-century behind bars for shooting at a group of teenagers — an attack he denied committing — was freed from prison on Thursday after the governor commuted his sentence, his attorneys said.
