Although the preliminary total does notexceed last year’s record $11.8 billion payments after blazes ripped through California’s wine country, the insurance commissioner said it will likelyrise.
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Some Americans are being denied ‘life-saving’ health care. It’s because they are transgender
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Anti-Semitic pamphlets found in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting neighborhood
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Number of Camp Fire missing people drops to 25
More than three weeks after the Camp Fire began ravaging Northern California, the Butte County Sheriff announced Saturdaythe number of unaccounted for has dropped to 25people.
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