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Santa Barbara took another step towards addressing the city’s housing crisis at this week’s city council meeting.

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Israel and Hamas took steps toward ending the two-year war that has devastated the Gaza Strip, but hard work lies ahead.

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The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting ...