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California Just Blew Its First Deadline for Voter-Approved Healthcare Measure

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California voters told lawmakers last fall that they wante...

California Just Blew Its First Deadline for Voter-Approved Healthcare Measure

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California voters told lawmakers last fall that they wante...

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The Food and Drug Administration’s campus in White Oak, Md., Oct. 31, 2024. Hundreds of federal health workers, including doctors in senior leadership positions, began hearing on April 1, 2025 that they are losing their jobs. (Andrew Mangum/The New York Times)

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This photo provided by researchers at UCSF and UC Berkeley shows Ann, a participant in a study on speech neuroprostheses, in California in 2023. (Noah Berger/UCSF, UC Berkeley via AP)

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A COVID-19 vaccination is administered in Silver Spring, Md., Feb. 26, 2021. The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 and other pathogens that may cause future pandemics. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

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A sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, on Oct. 8, 2013. (AP File)

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