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News California Fires: 83% of Santa Monica Mountains federal parkland burned by Woolsey Fire Xeni Jardin

News Before Robert Bowers killed 11 in synagogue, on Gab he offered to help a white supremacist hate group dox a journalist Xeni Jardin

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