Dr. David Fleming spent last week learning of the scope of the cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, not through meetings with department officials or emails, but by text messages and news stories. As far as he knows, he said, there is still no official public list of the cuts.

“This is unprecedented, both in the scale and ...Read more

On March 30, maritime law enforcement officials patrolling the ocean southwest of San Diego spotted and approached a suspicious vessel whose occupants were waving white flags to signal distress. The boat had suffered an engine failure and was taking on water, officials said.

On board they found 18 people, including 17 Mexican nationals, two of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Michael Newman, head of the civil rights enforcement section in California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office, was exhausted.

Newman and his legal team had just worked all weekend, straight through that Monday and overnight into Tuesday on a growing pile of legal challenges to the Trump administration, and were overdue for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci Park made her way through an auditorium filled with Pacific Palisades residents who had lost homes, schools and churches.

The charity event in mid-January was the first time many neighbors had seen each other since fleeing the monstrous blaze. They talked in anxious voices about toxic dirt ...Read more

Tina Ewing-Wilson remembers the last time major Medicaid cuts slashed her budget.

In the late 2000s, during the Great Recession, the pot of money she and other Medi-Cal recipients depend on to keep them out of costly residential care homes shrank.

The only way she could afford help was to offer room and board to a series of live-in caregivers ...Read more

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

She was a privileged daughter in a wealthy and politically prominent Atlanta family at the height of The Lost Cause myth, which argued that the South’s involvement in the Civil War was about states’ rights and heroism, ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom sent an urgent appeal to the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Saturday, imploring the department to reverse the abrupt cancellation of a Biden-era program that feeds millions of California families and has served as a lifeline for hundreds of small farmers since its inception in 2021.

"The irrational and malicious slashing of...Read more

Minnesota must conduct a preapproval lottery for cannabis business licenses that it abandoned late last year, a Ramsey County judge ruled Friday, saying social equity applicants who qualified for the drawing suffered a “public wrong” because of its cancellation.

“Canceling the lottery effectively casts aside the significant time and ...Read more

China’s objections to new U.S. tariffs stalled a deal to sell off TikTok and keep it operating in the U.S., President Donald Trump said Sunday.

“We had a deal pretty much for TikTok — not a deal but pretty close — and then China changed the deal because of tariffs,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he returned to Washington ...Read more

Malaysia will lead efforts to coordinate a regional response in Southeast Asia toward U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the country’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said.

“Malaysia, as Asean chair, will lead efforts to present a united regional front, maintain open and resilient supply chains, and ensure Asean’s collective voice is ...Read more

With cannabis and hallucinogen use on the rise, the Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists is trying to educate the public on the importance of disclosing the use of the substances to physicians, particularly before going into surgery.

Use of cannabis and hallucinogens remains at an all time high in recent years, according to a University of ...Read more

Stay in LA, the grassroots campaign aimed at boosting film and television production in Los Angeles, held a rally in Sun Valley on Sunday to draw attention to the struggling local entertainment industry.

The rally at SirReel Studio Services featured a series of speakers from across the entertainment industry as well as state and national ...Read more

Massachusetts universities including UMass Amherst, Northeastern University and Harvard are all reporting that numerous students have seen their visas revoked in recent weeks, joining colleges across the country as the federal government moves to expel foreign students.

Harvard reported three students and two recent graduates, UMass Amherst ...Read more

A line of strong storms is slowly progressing through Georgia on Sunday with risk of damaging winds, flash flooding and a brief tornado threat.

Storms entered the northwest part of Georgia by midmorning and will advance throughout the region before exiting Monday afternoon. About 6,000 Georgia Power customers were without power at approximately...Read more

A mountain lion cub left with a skull fracture and severe head and eye trauma after being struck by a car in Orange County earlier this year has made a sharp recovery and could soon return to the wild, the San Diego Humane Society announced on Saturday, Apr. 5.

The male cub was roughly four months old when he was found on the side of an Orange ...Read more

Members of Washington’s state-employees union are planning to march on the state Capitol next Wednesday to urge state lawmakers to adopt a budget free from furloughs, cuts and closures.

The group is also demanding that the state Legislature refrain from stripping away any of workers’ legal rights.

The April 9 rally comes as state leaders ...Read more

Brenda Morgan didn’t think she had the heart to take another assignment as a Tri-Cities home health care provider after she lost her client of 17 years in December.

But then she saw a message from the family of a young, autistic adult.

Sam has a heart condition, uses a feeding tube for meals and medication, and thrives on structure to help ...Read more

A rain-swollen stream left about 50 hikers stranded overnight at a Kauai waterfall, Hawaii rescuers reported.

The hikers called for help from the Kalalau Trail at about 11:55 a.m. Thursday, April 3, the Kaua‘i Fire Department said in a news release.

“When they got up to the waterfall, they turned around and this one guy tells me he stepped...Read more

Two GOP Congress members, including Westchester Rep. Mike Lawler, are going to bat for a former NYPD cop convicted of acting as an agent of China — writing on Congressional letterhead that they believe a federal jury got his landmark conviction wrong.

Lawler and Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), both China hawks who have taken strong stances ...Read more