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Kaiser Permanente Reaches a Tentative Deal With Health Care Worker Unions After a Recent Strike

Kaiser Permanente Reaches a Tentative Deal With Health Care Worker Unions After a Recent Strike

OAKLAND — Unions representing 75,000 health care workers have reached a tentative agreement with industry giant Kaiser Permanente following ...

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US Inflation Eased Slightly Last Month as Price Increases Extend Slow Descent

WASHINGTON — Measures of U.S. inflation barely declined in September, evidence that consumer price increases are grinding lower at a gradual...

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Social Security Benefits Will Increase by 3.2% in 2024 as Inflation Moderates

WASHINGTON — Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 3.2% increase in their benefits in 2024, far less than this year’s hist...

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Dairy Pushes Tulare to Top Ag County in Nation. Grapes Displace Almonds as Fresno’s Top Crop.

Tulare County took the title for top ag-producing county in the nation for 2022, beating out both Fresno and Kern counties. With the announc...

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The Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment Is Coming — But It Won’t Be as Big as This Year’s

WASHINGTON — Looking ahead to retirement next spring, Karla Abbott finds comfort in the cost-of-living increase that millions of Social Secu...

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Wholesale Inflation in US Rises 2.2% in September, Biggest Year-Over-Year Gain Since April

WASHINGTON — U.S. wholesale prices rose last month at the fastest pace since April, suggesting that inflationary pressures remain despite a ...

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The Future of Electric Vehicles Looms Over Negotiations in the US Autoworkers Strike

WAYNE, Mich. — On the picket lines at a Ford factory west of Detroit, many striking workers don’t think the electric vehicle revolutio...

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US Employers Added 336,000 Jobs in September in a Sign of Economic Resilience

WASHINGTON — The nation’s employers added 336,000 jobs in September, an unexpectedly robust gain and the largest monthly rise since January,...

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Kaiser Workers Go on Strike Over Wages and Staff Shortages

LOS ANGELES — Picketing began Wednesday morning at Kaiser Permanente hospitals as some 75,000 health care workers go on strike in California...

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California’s ‘Stealth Tax Increase’ Set to Hit in January

High earners in California are about to feel the effects of what the Wall Street Journal describes as a “stealth tax increase” t...

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Humanitarian Aid Is Stuck at Gaza-Egypt Border as Israeli Siege Strains Hospitals

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Suzanne Somers, of ‘Three’s Company,’ Dies a Day Before 77th Birthday

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Hunter Biden Investigations Lead to Ethical Concerns About President Biden, an AP-NORC Poll Shows

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Pharmacy Chain With Locations Across Fresno Files for Bankruptcy

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California’s Widening Housing Gap Defies State Efforts to Jump-Start Construction

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Israeli Shelling on Lebanon Border Kills Reuters Journalist, Wounds 6

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The Geography of Conflict: Understanding the Israeli Communities Along the Gaza Border

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What’s Out in the Universe? NASA’s Amber Straughn Will Tell Us in Town Hall Opener

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Valley Agricultural Innovators Honored with the CALF 2023 Profiles in Leadership Award

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Obama to Israelis in 2013: Put Yourselves in Palestinians’ Shoes

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Death Row Inmate Who Murdered Merced Police Officer Back in Court, Says His ‘Rights Violated’

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Republicans Pick Jim Jordan as Nominee for House Speaker, Putting Job Within the Trump Ally’s Reach

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