Paris Hilton, gender parity, Siberian tigers: 3 good-news stories for the holidays
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Hello and happy Thursday. There are 32 days until the inauguration and, bust out the tissues, this is my last newsletter until Jan. 7. That…
CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she could save them all.…
WASHINGTON — The Air Force lieutenant colonel left the Pentagon one day and returned the next — with a new name and a new gender identity.Bree…
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee voted in secret to release the long-awaited ethics report into ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz, raising the possibility that the allegations against…
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a defense bill Wednesday that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members and boost overall military spending to $895…
FBI agents searched the home of a Los Angeles deputy mayor as part of an investigation into a bomb threat made against City Hall, officials…
WASHINGTON — The federal judge who presided over the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers members said Wednesday that it would be “frightening” if the anti-government…
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday made another cut in interest rates, but dialed back expectations for lowering rates in the near future. The rate…
Los Angeles County supervisors called Tuesday for an investigation into the death of Thyri Wood, a 1-year-old who died in July after the county’s child…
Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and by the…
PLACERVILLE, Calif. — One by one, in the summer of 1984, teenage girls vanished off the streets of this historic town in the foothills of…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday signed off on two major California clean air rules designed to reduce pollution from cars and trucks, including…
WASHINGTON — Miriam Mesina de Gutierrez was 19 years old when she got hired at Paulson Manufacturing in Temecula. It was the summer of 2001 and…
When he came to power in 2015, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was hailed as a progressive icon, a charismatic leftist with movie star good…
If Democrats want to understand why president-elect Donald Trump is returning to the White House, a good place to start might be the “Know Your…
Environmental advocates are cautiously optimistic after the Supreme Court left California’s nation-leading auto emissions standards in place — at least for the moment.The Supreme Court…
L.A. County agreed to bestow new powers on its beleaguered probation chief, giving him temporary authority to redirect some of the county’s workforce as the…
SACRAMENTO — At a somber electoral college ceremony at the state Capitol on Tuesday, electors who had hoped to be celebrating the historic presidency of a…
Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised national prosperity and global peace, saying he would quickly drive down the cost of groceries in local supermarkets…
WASHINGTON — On the snowy sidewalk of a drab residential street in Moscow, blood, soot and the mangled remnants of an electric scooter marked the spot…