A new bill would create a scholarship program for students who agree to work with specialized courts in California to get ...

Longer life spans, rising rates of divorce, widowhood, and childlessness, and smaller, far-flung families are fueling a “gray ...

SIKESTON, Mo. — For residents of Sikeston, as for Black Americans around the country, speaking openly about experiences with racial violence can be taboo and, in some cases, forbidden. As a child, ...

The “Silence in Sikeston” documentary film explores how the nation’s first federally investigated lynching and a police killing 78 years apart haunt the same rural Missouri community. The film from ...

Despite years of national strategies to address the suicide crisis in the U.S., rates continue to rise. A chorus of ...

California lawmakers are moving to rein in the pharmaceutical middlemen they say drive up costs and limit consumers’ choices.

Officials reason that vigilance and familiarity with campuses would speed responses to shootings. But there is scant research ...

The generally combative face-off was marked by a series of false and sometimes bizarre statements from former President ...

Silence in Sikeston explores what it means to live with racism and violence, then charts the toll on health — from hives and high blood pressure to struggles with mental health. The deaths of two ...

Cal’s largest health plan following the Affordable Care Act expansion, and later prepared it for a state overhaul of Medi-Cal ...

An increasing number of Americans struggle with energy poverty, the inability to adequately heat or cool one’s dwelling.

About 8% of Americans lacked health insurance in 2023, the Census Bureau announced. But its report doesn’t capture the effect ...