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Samantha Young

Samantha Young

Samantha Young is politics correspondent for KHN (Kaiser Health News), a national newsroom that provides in-depth coverage of health issues and that is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation).

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Operations Section Chief Jon Wallace wearing a yellow jacket looks at and reached out to touch the protective foil wrapping around a big sequoia tree called General Sherman at Sequoia National Park, California
Drought, wildfires, extreme heat: California lawmakers cast climate change as the culprit in an emerging series of public health threats, setting aside billions to help communities respond. But they stopped short of more aggressively reducing the state’s share of the greenhouse emissions warming the planet.
This statue of Junipero Serra towers over Interstate 280 near the Crystal Springs Reservoir south of San Francisco.
The debate over removal of Confederate statues and memorials has some Californians questioning their own history.
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