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Laure Andrillon
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CalMatters
One new California law promotes heat illness education in schools. Another law, rolling out this month, requires rules for outdoor activity during extreme heat.
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U.S. Bureau of Land Management
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Eli Imadali/OPBPrograms like SNAP and Medicaid are facing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding cuts. It’s unclear how state leaders will fill the gap. -
Roman Battaglia/JPR NewsThe Douglas fir is iconic in Oregon. It’s the state tree and it's on most license plates. But one group is trying to save Oregon’s oak trees, which they say are just as important.
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Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Trump raised claims that the country's voting systems are vulnerable to being "rigged and stolen," without providing new evidence of a single fraudulent vote cast in any election. -
Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesThe comments came following widespread reports earlier in the week that those stops would be put on pause after two immigrants were fatally shot by ICE agents in early July.
Justin Higginbottom
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JPR
For decades, companies have wanted to restart nickel mining in Southern Oregon. A changing market and pro-mining administration might finally bring the industry back to the state, despite environmental concerns.
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Peyton Gast
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Jefferson Public Radio
Angela Hart
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KFF Health News
Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana is taking aim at California’s Medicaid program for providing housing assistance, food, and other social services to high-need, low-income patients who tend to rack up big healthcare costs and, he argued, strain taxpayer funds.
