The Manson follower who tried to kill a president — and the man who stopped her
She was one of Charles Manson’s earliest disciples, a waif-like flower child who rhapsodized about LSD and redwood trees, and one day in 1975 she...
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What the crisis at the border has meant for California’s economy
Kamala Harris had no sooner replaced Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee than Donald Trump began bashing her over the number of immigrants...
Here’s what happened when L.A. residents were guaranteed $1,000 a month
Some of L.A.’s poorest families received cash assistance of $1,000 a month as part of a 12-month pilot project launched nearly three years ago. There...
Why Democrats’ attacks on ‘weird’ Republicans are so powerful
Democrats may have finally found their magical talisman: One word (with apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien) to rule them all, one word to find them, one...
More than 80 arrests made in connection to copper wire theft
Eighty-two arrests have been made in a recent escalation to combat the “growing epidemic” of copper wire thefts, city officials announced Tuesday. City Councilmembers Kevin...
A look inside the new state fair cannabis consumption lounge
SACRAMENTO — Last month, the California State Fair announced plans to allow cannabis to be sold and consumed on-site for the first time in its 170-year...
Long waits for home care persist in California despite expansion
Lyla Abuebaid needs to check on her 5-year-old son through the night to make sure he keeps breathing. Sayfideen has a rare and serious syndrome...
Trump and Vance taint good conservative ideas with their bad politics
One of my great peeves of the Trump era is the Greenland effect. I belong to a small group of people who think America should...
Kamala Harris has to be an avatar not of hope but of give-’em-hell
Objectively, it is an amazing progression in a short window of time. In 2008, Barack Obama, a Democrat, became the nation’s first Black president. Sixteen...
Do hydration powders work? Inside the trendy supplements on your feed
You see them crowding checkout counters at grocery stores — a rainbow of bubble-gum pink, lime green and blueberry packets, slender and upright, like a...