Cheap insulin pens will soon be available through state-backed deal, Newsom announces
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced a plan to offer $11 insulin pens through the state’s pharmaceutical venture. Beginning Jan. 1, consumers can purchase a five-pack of pens…
Tavares Strachan’s new LACMA exhibit fuses art, science, history and Afrofuturism
Tavares Strachan loves to blur the lines that separate art, science and historical reckoning — as well as past, present and future. A native of Nassau, Bahamas, he once carved…
Hiltzik: Business tax cuts aren’t good for everyone
The most famous quip ever uttered about the federal budget is the one attributed to Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.), who served 34 years in the House and Senate until his…
Trump keeps name-checking the Insurrection Act as way to deploy troops
There are few laws President Trump name-checks more frequently than the Insurrection Act. A 200-year-old constellation of statutes, the act grants emergency powers to thrust active-duty soldiers into civilian police…
‘Grey’s Anatomy’: After 450 episodes, these people have stuck around
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Linda Klein, began as the show’s medical consultant, eventually becoming a director and executive producer. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times) If Linda Klein really thinks about it, her Hollywood…
At 93, he’s one of Santa Monica’s hottest yoga instructors
Salomon Delgado is one of Santa Monica’s hottest yoga instructors. He’s 93 years old. What? Let me reiterate: In a city obsessed with youth and brimming with lithe fitness instructors…
Newsom signs bill to accelerate study of psychedelics for PTSD
Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a bill to fast-track the study of psychedelic drugs, which a coalition of veterans say hold enormous potential to treat post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.…
How Jacob Elordi became a monster for Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’
A curse befell Jacob Elordi when he was a child. It happened in the aisle of a Blockbuster Video. The culprit for the incantation was the image of the now…
L.A. County gets a new tool to find and save vulnerable people with cognitive disabilities
Janet Rivera cares for both her 79-year-old mother, who has dementia, and her 25-year-old son, who has a genetic condition called Fragile X syndrome. Despite their differing diagnoses, both of…
New fraud claims emerge in L.A. County $4-billion sex settlement
It felt like the kind of thing that must happen in Hollywood all the time: a hundred bucks to be a movie extra. Austin Beagle, 31, and Nevada Barker, 30,…