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US Supreme Court Lets Parents Take Kids Out of Classes With LGBT Storybooks

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In Win for Trump, US Supreme Court Limits Judges’ Power to Block Birthright Citizenship Order

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California’s Newsom Sues Fox News for $787 Million for Defamation Over Trump Call

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Motorcycle Collides With Tractor in Fatal Fresno County Collision

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Fourth of July Celebrations Begin Saturday. Here’s Your Fresno Area Guide

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Bill Moyers, Broadcaster and LBJ’s White House Press Secretary, Dies at 91

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State Department Approves $30 Million for Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

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Cargo Ship That Caught Fire Carrying Electric Vehicles Sinks in the Pacific

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4 Million Acres of California Forests Could Lose Protection. What Trump’s ‘Roadless Rule’ Repeal Could Do

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Biden Taps Rice as Domestic Policy Adviser, McDonough for VA

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden is naming Susan Rice as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, giving her broad sway over his administration’s approach to immigration, health care and racial inequality and elevating the prominence of the position in the West Wing. The move marks a surprising shift...

Health Care Is Focus as Barrett Supreme Court Hearing Opens

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats branded Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett a threat to Americans' health care during the coronavirus pandemic Monday at the start of a fast-tracked hearing that Republicans are confident will end with Barrett's confirmation to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before Election Day. In a competing effort to approvingly...

Group Prenatal Care Aims to Reduce Healthcare Disparities for Black Mothers

Before she became pregnant, Darnisha Wiley-Scott had been going door-to-door on the west side of Fresno surveying women about pregnancy and childbirth as part of a community project and study. “Come to find out that African-American women are more likely to have premature babies than any other ethnicity in Fresno....

Some California Hospitals Are Overwhelmed by Virus Cases

SACRAMENTO — Teams of military doctors, nurses and other health care specialists are being deployed to eight California hospitals facing staffing shortages amid a record-breaking surge of coronavirus cases across the state. The Air Force, at California's request, assigned 160 people to increase capacity in intensive care units. Some teams...

Want to ‘Fly Through’ Medical School? Here’s Your Chance.

Next month, a group of 75 future doctors will begin four years of rigorous study and training while attending the Valley's new medical school just east of Fresno. But on Tuesday, the public can "fly through" the College of Osteopathic Medicine's 90,000 square-foot building in Clovis as part of the...

New Doctors Say They’ll Stay Local to Address Valley Health Needs

Dr. Kenya Covarrubias didn't speak English when she began 10th grade at Washington Union High School in the small Fresno County town of Easton. But that obstacle didn't stop the motivated young woman from becoming valedictorian of her graduating class. She then went on to double major in chemistry and...

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