Hit men, motorbikes, clown masks: Armenian gang war roils parts of L.A.
A motorcyclist coasted to a stop on a sun-baked street in the San Fernando Valley. He retrieved a stepladder from the bed of a pickup truck and leaned it against…
Measles cases are on the rise in California
California has already reported more measles cases this year than in all of 2024, a worrisome development that comes as the nation is suffering its largest outbreak of the super-infectious…
Kennedy says U.S. is pulling funding from global vaccine group Gavi
LONDON — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi, saying the organization has “ignored the science” and “lost…
Federal contractors dumped wildfire asbestos waste at L.A. area landfills
Federal contractors tasked with clearing ash and debris from the Eaton and Palisades wildfires improperly sent truckloads of asbestos-tainted waste to nonhazardous landfills, including one where workers were not wearing…
Child dead, 4 others hurt as tree falls at SoCal summer camp
A child died while attending a summer camp at King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas on Wednesday, according to the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority. The L.A. County Fire Department responded…
Contributor: How Trump is purging and purifying the GOP
Forget the doomsday predictions about what President Trump’s cuts might do — his “Big Beautiful Bill” has already notched its first major casualty: Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican.…
Contributor: The road trip — sublime, profane and (almost) reclaimed
My faith in the American road trip was saved by a small town in Texas on the Fourth of July. When that faith began to waver, and how far the…
Hims & Hers’ split with Wegovy maker weighs on the telehealth company
Hims & Hers, the high-flying telehealth company that rapidly ascended from a buzzy startup selling Viagra to a multibillion-dollar business with a Super Bowl ad, had a hard week. The…
Life expectancy in California still hasn’t rebounded since the pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus caused life expectancy in California to drop significantly. It’s now been over two years since officials declared the pandemic-related public health emergency to be…
RFK Jr. is dismantling trust in vaccines, the crown jewel of American public health
When it comes to vaccines, virtually nothing that comes out of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s mouth is true. The man in charge of the nation’s health and well being is…