I'd get seven hours of shut-eye a night because a six-year, large-scale population study of sleep done at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine associated it with the lowest death rate among adults.

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California proposed putting more inmates on firefighting crews and into space leased from county jails to help meet a court-mandated requirement that it reduce its state-prison population, in a plan California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed Thursday night.

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Last night, I went to a fire station in Dawson, population 155.

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Jaramana, a town in the Damascus suburbs with a Christian and Druze population that has mostly been pro-regime, was the site of violence Monday night.

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Staffordshire Police said 43 reported incidents out of a population of more than 1m people was 50% higher than for a typical Saturday night, but also included reports of domestic incidents where no crimes had been committed.

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On Election Night, Dickson fell about a thousand votes short of victory in her district, which has a population of more than a hundred and fifty thousand.

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In Canvey Island, Essex, the entire 13, 000-strong population was moved to safety as the bad weather took hold and Essex police reported they had recovered bodies during the night.

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