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President Donald Trump talks to reporters. | Anna Moneymaker Pool / Getty Images OAKLAND – President Donald Trump on Thursday accused California of burning wildfires and threatening to withhold federal money, repeating his attacks from previous rounds of catastrophic fire. “I see the forest fires starting again,” he said. ‘They’re …

Doctors have long known that even short exposure to air pollution can make asthma less, but less is known about whether pollution increases the risk that children will develop asthma in the first place. Researchers looked at data from nearly 780,000 Danish children born between 1997 and 2014. They followed …

Katy Perry, 35 weeks pregnant, sat across the screen from Apple Music’s Zane Lowe for an in-depth interview today (August 20) about how she feels Laugh, the title of their upcoming album, is not a one-and-done process. While KatyCats is expecting the album’s release on August 28 after being delayed …

From the Humboldt County Joint Information Center: The Public Health Communicable Disease team today issued blank isolation and quarantine orders humboldtgov.org/blanketorders to help Humboldt County better position itself for an increase in new COVID-19 infections. These orders, formally referred to as Mass Isolation and Mass Quarantine orders, apply to all …

Despite disturbing numbers of young people dying from COVID-19, the Los Angeles County Chief Medical Officer said Thursday that new cases of coronavirus could subside soon enough to allow officials to grant exemptions to open elementary schools. During an online news conference, Dr. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser points out that exemptions can …