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   <news:title>Prop. 5: Will California voters change the rules for recall elections?</news:title>
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   <news:title>Know a young adult? Tell them in California you can register and vote on Election Day</news:title>
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   <news:title>Resultados electorales de California en directo</news:title>
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   <news:title>California adopted a new water plan. It&amp;#039;s unlikely to end the state&amp;#039;s water wars</news:title>
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   <news:title>We went to court to check on California illegal voting cases. Here&amp;#039;s what we learned</news:title>
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   <news:title>Former Assembly staffer claims retaliation, hostile work environment in lawsuit</news:title>
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   <news:title>Supreme Court declines to hear Trump’s California 20,000 ballot case. Here’s what to know</news:title>
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   <news:title>Cuidado con el &amp;quot;espejismo rojo&amp;quot; si los republicanos de California obtienen ventaja la noche de las elecciones</news:title>
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   <news:title>¿Necesitas más ayuda financiera para la universidad? Esta nueva ley te facilitará solicitarla</news:title>
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   <news:title>Los residuos nucleares de San Onofre están almacenados en la playa: ¿Aceptará otra comunidad hacerse cargo de ellos?</news:title>
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   <news:title>The &amp;#039;affordability&amp;#039; crisis is also a crisis of broken trust in the American Dream</news:title>
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   <news:title>Why school board members aren’t running for reelection: ‘A lot of disillusionment&amp;#039;</news:title>
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