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Led by Elizabeth Lemley’s gold, the U.S. so far has won six medals in freestyle skiing, but Lindsey Vonn’s run in the downhill only run lasted less than 13 seconds before she clipped a gate, triggering a horrific crash that shattered her left leg.
From Los Angeles Times
Former Assemblyman Ian Calderon offered a more modest promise to provide free child care to families earning less than $100,000 annually and to break up PG&E, California’s largest utility, “and literally take California’s power back.”
From Los Angeles Times
Porter was also the most extravagant in her promises, pledging to deliver universal healthcare to California — a years-old Democratic ambition — free childcare, zero tuition at the state’s public universities and elimination of the state income tax for those earning less than $100,000.
From Los Angeles Times
That is less than a 10th of the 59,806 reduction in Farmers’ total number of California home-insurance policies in the previous two years, according to a Consumer Watchdog analysis.
The 3-0 win, which concluded less than three weeks ago, took England's winning run in T20s against Sri Lanka to 11.
From BBC
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