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Californians Paid Higher Gas Prices as Oil Companies Made Massive Profits

Nov 15, 2022 | Front Page, Politics, State

Gas prices have a crippling hold on California drivers. As averages currently stand at $5.46 for regular and $5.80 for premium, what is the incentive for oil companies to lower their prices while their profits skyrocket?

Commentary: Study Linking Relaxers to Cancer is “Fake News”

Nov 15, 2022 | Featured

A major study by the National Institute of Health (NHI) found that women who received hair relaxer treatments at least four times a year had a 3x greater risk of uterine cancer. A previous study found a 30% increased risk of breast cancer.

California Stockpiles Penalties From Uninsured Residents Instead of Lowering Care Costs

Nov 15, 2022 | Featured, Health Care, State

SACRAMENTO — Nearly three years after California started fining residents who don’t have health insurance, the state has not distributed any of the revenue it has collected, KHN has learned — money that was intended to help Californians struggling to pay for coverage.

To Address Rising Hate, More Focus on Prevention and Crimes It Triggers

Nov 15, 2022 | Featured

When hip hop icon and fashion designer Kanye West wore a black, long-sleeved shirt with “WHITE LIVES MATTER” emblazoned on the backside in white block letters at his Yeezy fashion show in Paris on Oct. 3, it started a national conversation on racism that intensified four days later when West broadcast on Twitter that he was going to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE” in a since deleted tweet.