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California
What started Dome Fire in Yosemite? Officials backtrack on campfire as cause
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Two Sacramento politicians call for Mai Vang to be fired in Matsui campaign ad
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National
U.S. Supreme Court again blocks Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map
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