Tim Walz appears at California fundraiser after defending military service – as it happened
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Tim Walz appears at California fundraiser after defending military service – as it happened

Politics tamfitronics Politics tamfitronics Walz defends military service in first solo campaign appearanceSpeaking of the Harris campaign, the vice-president’s newly minted running mate, Tim Walztoday made his first solo campaign appearance at a convention of union members.The Minnesota governor gave a wide-ranging speech in which he attacked Donald Trump and cheered the power of organized labor, while also taking time to respond to attacks from the former president and his supporters, who say Walz has exaggerated his military service.Here’s what he said in response, at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’s annual convention:"I am damn proud of my service to this country. And I firmly believe you should never denigrate another person's service record."— Amid GOP attacks, Tim Walz defends the timing of his decision to retire from the National Guard in...
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Watch: California Pays Drug Users To Stay Clean
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Watch: California Pays Drug Users To Stay Clean

Health News tamfitronics KFF Health News senior correspondent Angela Hart appeared on Spectrum News 1’s “LA Times Today” last week to explain how California is trying to help hard-drug users kick their habit by paying them to stay clean.California was the first state to expand access to this cutting-edge addiction treatment, called “contingency management,” in its Medicaid program. Washington and Montana have since followed.California is focusing on stimulants like meth and cocaine. Under the program, participants must pee into a cup regularly, and if the urine is free of stimulants, they get paid with a gift card, starting at $10 for the first test. The longer they abstain, the more they’re paid — up to $599 a year.Click here to watch Hart discuss the treatment on “LA Times Today.”You can read Hart’s in-depth article about...
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Man in California Accused of Atmosphere Off Over 150 Explosions, Basically based on Police
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Man in California Accused of Atmosphere Off Over 150 Explosions, Basically based on Police

Top Stories Tamfitronics A Pasadena man has been arrested in reference to “over 150 unidentified explosions” within the city at some stage within the last two years, police said.Art Leon Berian, 62, is accused of surroundings off the explosions, including 14 within the past two weeks alone shut to Allen Avenue and Washington Boulevard, the Pasadena Police Department said in a news unencumber.Berian changed into identified because the suspect after investigators engaged on this case on Would perchance per chance presumably 16 stumbled upon one other explosion. While acquiring video of a outdated incident, detectives “heard a loud explosion and seen a white cloud in front of them,” the unencumber said.While purchasing the yell, detectives spotted Berian’s 2013 BMW, one in every of two automobiles registered to the identical proprietor that had been spotted...
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