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(left to right) Marius Montoya, 16, and Mio Holguin, 17, are students at Oceanside High School listening. They were part of a National Coming Out event led by Tony Thurmond, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Oceanside, Calif., October 11, 2022.

Oceanside school district honored on National Coming Out Day

Equality California awards Oceanside Unified School District its highest honor for supporting LGBTQ students.

Carlos Sandoval, 11, cooks and plates a Salisbury steak dinner as one of his assignments at the new California Culinary Arts Institute in Barrio Logan, February 16, 2022

New Barrio Logan school teaches cooking with love

New cooking school in Barrio Logan teaches children culinary arts with plans to help the homeless.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., speaks with reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Monday about negotiations on the government spending package.

Lawmakers unveil a $1.7 trillion U.S. spending bill as shutdown deadline looms

Leaders are racing to complete passage before a midnight Friday deadline or face the prospect of a partial government shutdown going into the Christmas holiday.

UCSD Jacobs Medical Center — exterior view

San Diego County marks a first in nation for geriatric emergency care

San Diego is now the first county in the nation to have accredited geriatric emergency departments in all of its eligible hospitals.

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A worker at the Wupperthal Original Rooibos Co-operative's processing facility carries a bag of freshly harvested rooibos to the processing area. The country's rooibos tea exports have skyrocketed from barely 500 tons in 1996 to nearly 9,000 tons today — enough to fill 3.6 billion teabags. But indigenous farmers were long cut out of the revenues, until a ground-breaking agreement was forged.

Trendy rooibos tea finally brings revenues to Indigenous South African farmers

For generations, the Khoisan people harvested the rooibos plant to make tea. As this caffeine-free drink has grown widely popular around the world, they've been cut out of revenues. Until now.

A billing mistake by an in-network Florida emergency room landed Sara McLin's then-4-year-old son in collections.

Pay up, kid? An ER's error sends a 4-year-old to collections

A Florida woman tried to dispute an emergency room bill, but the hospital and collection agency refused to talk to her — because it was her child's name on the bill, not hers.

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The number of new pilots entering the industry is below the demand.

A pilot shortage that's been brewing for years adds to the summer travel chaos

The pipeline of new pilots has been shrinking for years. As summer travel demand increases, the shortage is adding to the strain in airlines and chaos at the airports.

Healthcare workers with New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene help people register for the monkeypox vaccine at one of the City's vaccination sites, Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in New York. The World Health Organization recently declared that the expanding monkeypox outbreak is a global emergency.

US signs off on 800,000 more doses of monkeypox vaccine

Health regulators say nearly 800,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine will soon be available for U.S. distribution.

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