Thursday is the final day for Californians to use any remaining funds on their Middle Class Tax Refund debit cards, a one‑time “inflation relief” payment approved by state lawmakers in 2022. Between October 2022 and January 2023, the state issued 16.8 million payments, including 7.2 million direct deposits and 9.6 million debit cards, to Californians […]

Daniel Reilly takes 19 pills in the morning and 13 at night. He lives with hemophilia and HIV, which he contracted in the 1980s. No one expected him to live this long. In most respects, that’s a blessing—the product of generations of extraordinary medical advances. But it also means there are entire medical specialties he […]

A perfect storm of global and local forces has driven the cost of a gallon of gas in Southern California to its highest level in nearly four years. KTLA’s Jillian Smuckler was at a Chevron station in Woodland Hills, where the price of a gallon of gas hit $6.29 Thursday morning. Nationally, gas prices have […]

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court dealt a death blow to the country’s most important civil rights legislation, the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that defeated Jim Crow. For 100 years, from 1865 to 1965, Black people were systematically and actively excluded from participation in American democracy through racial violence, but more commonly through race-neutral […]