The cigarette smoking rate among U.S. adults dropped to another all-time low last year, with 1 in 11 adults saying they were current smokers, according to government survey data released this week.

An eighth-grader from Silver Lake was among nine spellers poised to compete in Thursday’s finals of the National Spelling Bee ...

A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s name was illegally added to the Kennedy Center and blocked the administration from closing the cultural and arts venue for major renovations.

The former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district who was arrested last year in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown was sentenced Friday to two years in prison. Attorneys for ...

The queens of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” are heading back on the road. World of Wonder and Voss Events have announced the 2027 edition of RuPaul’s Drag Race Werq the World Tour, which will celebrate its ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. commander in Latin America met with Cuban military leaders on Friday in a “brief exchange on operational security matters” near the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, the ...

About six months ago, I found a puppy tied to a park bench near my home. It had rained earlier in the day, and the young dog was soaked through and through. As I was deciding what to do, a man ...

The city of Montebello’s Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument is a winner of the 2026 Preservation Design Award by the California Preservation Foundation in the category of Cultural Heritage, Intangible ...

LOS ANGELES — The wide-ranging prosecution of those involved in the death of “Friends” star Matthew Perry has come to a close with the sentencing of his personal assistant, the last of the five people ...

The El Segundo blue butterfly was first placed under the federal Endangered Species Act on June 1, 1976. Five decades later, there are many South Bay organizations that have helped restore hundreds of ...

Los Angeles County voters are being asked to approve Measure ER, an additional half-cent sales tax to help pay for healthcare services in the county in response to federal funding cuts. We won’t know ...

Dangerous materials are around us all the time and the United States has been regulating their transport for 160 years. The first federal law for transporting hazardous materials was passed in 1866.