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U.S. Senate Democrats Introduce Legislation To Stop Trump Administration Ploy Threatening Seniors’ Access To Treatment Under Traditional Medicare

December 17, 2025 - On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Aging Committee, ...
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Wine Institute California 2025 Harvest Report: A Slow, Steady Growing Season Sets Up a Standout 2025 Vintage

The USDA forecasts 2025 California winegrape production at 3 million tons, a 4% increase from 2024 but still 16% below the ...
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California Home Sales Reach Three-Year High in November 2025, C.A.R. Reports. Year-Over-Year Mariposa County Sales Rise 15.4% While Madera County Sales Declined 42.6%.

November’s statewide median home price was $852,680, down 3.9 percent from $886,960 in October and essentially flat from $852,880 in November 2024. Year-to-date statewide home sales were up 0.9 ...
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California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Finds Tesla Violated California State Law

Tesla Cybertruck Credit: Tesla What you need to know: The California DMV finds Tesla Motors in violation of state law for ...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Adopts Individual-Based Decision-Making for Hepatitis B Immunization for Infants Born to Women Who Test Negativ…

December 17, 2025 - ATLANTA - On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the following: The Centers ...
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American Medical Association on CDC’s Hepatitis B Birth Dose Decision Says Rolling Back This Recommendation Will Undoubtedly Result In Completely Preventable Illne…

Decades of scientific evidence shows that the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine is essential to protecting all newborns ...
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U.S. Senator Mike Lee Introduces Bill Protecting Car Owners from Data Harvesting

On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation affording essential data privacy rights to vehicle owners ...
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U.S. Senator Susan Collins Praises Addition of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy to HHS’ List of Recommended Newborn Screenings

This announcement follows a bipartisan letter that Senator Collins and a group of nine members of Congress sent last month to ...
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KFF Health News: Disability Rights Lawyers Threatened With Budget Cuts, Reassignments

People with disabilities have the right to live in their communities if possible. Federal laws and court decisions say they ...
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California’s U.S. Senator Adam Schiff and Representative Dave Min Lead 10 Colleagues in DOJ Probe of Repeated Intervention or Dismissals of Cases Involving …

On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and Representative Dave Min ...
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National Parks Conservation Association Calls On U.S. Senators to Oppose Republican Senator Mike Lee’s Amendment Greenlighting the Sale of National Parks

NPCA is also urging park advocates everywhere to call their Senators today and tell them to vote “no” on Lee Amendment #3972 and stop the national park sell-off. For more information and to connect ...
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Son Charged with Fatally Stabbing Parents Rob and Michele Reiner in Brentwood Home, Los Angeles County DA Reports (Video)

December 17, 2025 – LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman announced that 32- year-old Nick Reiner was charged on Tuesday with murdering his parents, Hollywood ...