LOS ANGELES -- For more than four decades, the 1736 Family Crisis Center has offered care for victims of domestic violence, running shelters and crisis hotlines in L.A. and Orange counties on what today is a $15-million budget.

But the primary residence of the nonprofit's chief executive has been in Hawaii for at least the last 10 years. And ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Santiago Cruz, a junior at Bert Corona Charter High School in Pacoima, hopes to graduate alongside the classmates he grew up with, but worries that some of them may be derailed by nitrous oxide, the odorless gas that is being inhaled by young people and others as an illicit way to get high.

He was among several students, ...Read more

DENVER -- When staff at Denver’s Fairmount Cemetery stumbled across splatters of fake blood staining a family’s private mausoleum last week, they suspected an unsanctioned photo shoot was behind the imitation gore.

The fake blood stained the property and is difficult to remove, Fairmount Cemetery events manager Karna O’Neill said. While ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Eight-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz’s school and church were less than a half-mile from her back door in West Englewood.

On Nov. 12, 1960, a Saturday, her mother Esther was up early to get her dressed. Gloria had received her First Holy Communion recently, and a nun at St. Mary of Mount Carmel Church had urged the third grader and her...Read more

BEIRUT — This wasn't the way the story was supposed to go for Saudi Arabia. In recent years, headlines about the country focused on the scale of its ambition, or the fantastical giga-projects girding Vision 2030, the full-steam-ahead drive to remake the kingdom into a business and entertainment powerhouse.

But all that was upended Saturday, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX launched a cargo mission to the International Space Station before dawn Tuesday that brought a sonic boom and a space jellyfish effect to the skies over Central Florida.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the CRS-35 mission topped with a crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch ...Read more

Brightly colored packaging, promises of better sexual performance and names like “Rhino,” “Anaconda” and “Magnum” make sexual enhancement products difficult to miss. They can be found online, in convenience stores and at gas stations, and some can even be ordered through delivery services.

But what’s inside the package ...Read more

“Do you smoke cigarettes?” I asked my patient succinctly in a recent clinic appointment.

He matter-of-factly responded, “Not anymore, I use Zyn pouches now.”

As with any patient, I gauged his readiness – or reluctance, in some instances – to disrupt his use of nicotine.

I asked about his interest in trying ...Read more

Media critic Ben Bagdikian warned in 2004 that five corporations had accumulated “more communications power than was exercised by any despot or dictatorship in history.” More than 20 years later, a major media merger is bringing his warning back into focus.

Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in October 2026 ...Read more

Regardless of their views on politics or climate change, most Americans oppose the development of data centers in their communities.

These large buildings filled with computers that store and process digital information, increasingly to support various applications of artificial intelligence, are being built rapidly across the United ...Read more

A common complaint today laments the “shamelessness” of politicians. Until recently, the argument goes, more elected officials had a sense of shame to hold them back from ugly words and deeds, at least in public. Many in the current crop, however, seem to have no fear of disgrace; they revel in contempt for the niceties of old – ...Read more

Public comments quietly closed Oct. 6 in response to the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, an undercelebrated piece of federal legislation that has protected about 58.5 million acres of roadless areas across our National Forest System. That’s about one-third of the 193 million acres that make up our national ...Read more

CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. — Despite being in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, this rural county of roughly 85,000 people is still brimming with red foxes, coyotes, white-tailed deer, and wild turkeys.

But in recent months, Enbridge Gas North Carolina’s proposed plans for a natural gas pipeline have exposed how population growth, ...Read more

As Americans grow increasingly frustrated with their healthcare system, a proposal that has long been kicked around on the Democratic periphery is showing up in debates and on political platforms: “Medicare for All.”

According to a 2025 Economist-YouGov poll, nearly 60% of Americans favor a system of Medicare for All, while 85% of Democrats...Read more

Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Monday.

Homeland Security Investigations agents conducted the search. The Department of Justice said in a statement that the raid was “part of an ongoing federal criminal investigation,” but provided no further details.

President Donald Trump remained silent on the raid ...Read more

RJ Mitte, the actor who played the son of drug lord Walter White in "Breaking Bad," has died at 34.

Mitte, who, like his character Walter "Flynn" White Jr., had cerebral palsy, died Monday in Brownsville, Texas.

The actor played an integral supporting role on the AMC series, which premiered in 2008 and lasted five seasons. The character was ...Read more

A new California law will bar hospitals and doctors’ offices from using artificial intelligence to independently perform medical tasks that require a professional license, such as prescribing medications or ordering tests.

Assembly Bill 1979, signed last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom and taking effect Jan. 1, requires healthcare facilities to ...Read more

The state of Michigan is pumping $3.4 million into 18 agencies across the state in an effort to give more Michiganians a safe place to live as they recover from substance use disorders.

The money comes from the massive opioid settlements that stem from lawsuits against drug manufacturers, distributors and retailers over their roles in fueling ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — With just a few weeks to go before Election Day, opponents of expanding Idahoans’ access to abortion are turning up the heat.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on Thursday donated $1 million to the campaign against Proposition 1, a citizens initiative on the November ballot that would expand abortion access. The...Read more