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Americans have been challenging books at an unprecedented rate. According to the American Library Association, people requested that more than 4,200 titles be removed from public and school libraries in 2023, the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego zoning loophole is pitting neighbors against one another in Crown Point and making every coastal community in the city, from Ocean Beach to La Jolla, vulnerable to similar battles.

All across ...Read more

For much of the past year, the Southern California housing market has been defined by an extreme shortage of homes for sale.

The abnormal scarcity — compounded by the region's long-running underproduction of housing —...Read more

Mirwais Nawab Jalali was a military officer in Afghanistan, assisting the U.S. government there for years in America’s longest war, before he left the country in the middle of the night with just some documents and his ...Read more

Although California has some of the toughest labor laws in the country, a new study has found workers routinely suffer violations while on the job.

A team of researchers from UC San Francisco and Harvard University ...Read more

As Carmell Massey and Saul Rodriguez, both 18, get ready to graduate next month from Innovations High School, the teens said they are afraid of being out of school and jobless as they are having a hard time finding ...Read more

Professor Charles Xavier knows coexistence isn’t easy.

After being repeatedly denigrated by members of a technologically advanced alien race for being “born on the wrong side of the stars,” Xavier sits his potential...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "This is where all the cruising happened."

Jonathan Bailey and I are standing in Pershing Square on a bright, blustery spring afternoon, nearing the end of a homemade queer history tour of downtown L.A.: ...Read more

CHICAGO — I turned to the parent next to me and asked what she was going to do about all the, you know … I didn’t want to say it. The what, the parent asked. All of the swearing, the F-bombs and such, I said. This ...Read more

SEATTLE — “I read it and knew immediately that I should do it,” said June Squibb, in town last week as a guest and honoree of the Seattle International Film Festival. She’s talking about the fest’s May 9 opening-...Read more

Most small kidney stones can pass on their own. However, kidney stones that are too large to pass on their own or cause bleeding, kidney damage or ongoing urinary tract infections may require surgical treatment. In this ...Read more

The rain was pounding in the Mojave Desert on the Saturday before Easter when the first call came in about a crash along Interstate 15. Details were sketchy: head-on collision, Mercedes versus another car, a 7-year-old not...Read more

ATLANTA — An estimated 96,030 college students will be graduating in Georgia this year — a state that gained 116,077 new residents in 2023 alone. That’s a lot of people looking for work. Luckily, the Peach State’s ...Read more

Heather Crivilare was a month from her due date when she was rushed to an operating room for an emergency cesarean section.

The first-time mother, a high school teacher in rural Illinois, had developed high blood pressure...Read more

There are certain candidates who have lived their lives like perfectly calibrated political arrows, arcing ever upward through all the right stops toward higher office.

Not Laura Friedman.

The Glendale Assembly member, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — What does "permanent" mean?

For more than 100 people still living at the massive Westside apartment complex Barrington Plaza one year after their owner sought to evict them, a judge's answer to that ...Read more

Junior psychology major Erin Green works part time at the children’s preschool at Sonoma State University, caring for university employees’ kids ages 1 to 5. Some of the non-student workers in her center belong to a ...Read more

Kori Thompson had long wrestled with the idea of having a child.

The 24-year-old worried about the world a kid would face as climate change overtook the globe, fearing the environmental devastation and economic strain ...Read more

When you think about obesity, you may not connect it to cancer. However, researchers long have suspected a link between certain cancers and weight.

Among those are endometrial, ovarian, colon, liver, pancreatic and ...Read more

Meta Getman heard the news out of Alabama and, suddenly, she was right back in it.

Getman and her husband had spent more than three years struggling with infertility — including four rounds of intrauterine insemination ...Read more