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• FBI says Islamic State inspired New Year’s Day New Orleans attacker acted alone.
• New California law prohibits collection agencies and others from sharing medical debt information.
• New state labor laws go on the books in California, including paid farm worker sick leave for extreme natural events.
• Alternative power advocates say they plan to fight fossil fuel industries’ attacks on solar rooftops.
• State water regulators say California’s first snowpack reading of the year is encouraging.

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