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In 2020, Travis Flores became one of only a handful of people in the world ever to receive a third double-lung transplant. Diagnosed as a baby with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder that causes mucus to build up in the lungs and other organs, Flores had defied doctors’ predictions that he wouldn’t live past age … Read more

(Nam Y. Huh / Associated Press) To hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tell it, making America healthy again means making American food healthy again. The nation’s top health official says hundreds of additives should be removed from the U.S. food supply out of concern that they’re contributing to a rash of chronic health problems. Plenty … Read more

They say everything old is new again. Here are a few outdated bacteria and viruses looking to trend again as vaccination rates fall. Measles is in the air! That is to say that this highly infectious airborne virus has been spotted in a handful of states, at Los Angeles International Airport and, in particular, west … Read more

(Martina Ibáñez-Baldor / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images ) It’s going to be a summer of brown grass and hard choices for Southern California lawn owners facing the Metropolitan Water District’s one-day-a-week watering restrictions starting June 1. With just eight minutes of water once a week, the recommended amount people should use with traditional sprinklers, … Read more

The artist Charles Gaines, his beauty and poignance Trees bloom cherry-blossom pink, teal and yellow as artist Charles Gaines walks through Hauser & Wirth’s West Hollywood gallery. Up close, his large, gridded paintings look like clusters of pixelated squares. Zoom out and these pointillist patterns are colorful doubles of the black-and-white photographs of baobab trees … Read more

Control issues? These two simple words could help “The single best thing” Mel Robbins has ever done began with a stressful moment onher son’s prom night. The bestselling author, former attorney and host of one of the world’s most popular podcasts is talking about her latest book, “The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That … Read more

The rise and fall of L.A.-based fashion pioneer Forever 21 Do Won Chang was 30 years old in 1984 when he and his wife, Jin Sook Chang, opened a shop in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park and called it Fashion 21. The husband-and-wife team, who emigrated from South Korea three years earlier, sold … Read more

Parents are blaming Snapchat for their teens’ fentanyl deaths. Will an L.A. lawsuit shape the future of social media? Jaime Puerta keeps a shrine to his son, Daniel, behind his desk — a collection of candles, old pictures and his son’s beloved toy car. He also keeps a stash of naloxone, the lifesaving opioid overdose … Read more

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has advocated placing conditions on disaster aid for California. But what about the needs of his own state? (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press) To address the most important point up front: The wildfires currently spreading across North and South Carolina are tragic. Thousands of acres have been burned by hundreds of … Read more

The heartbroken family of late cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has slammed Alec Baldwin following the release of his TLC show, saying it’s “shameless” for the actor to claim he has PTSD following the October 2021 shooting on the set of his movie “Rust.” Gloria Allred, who represents Hutchins’ mother, Olga Solovey, father Anatolii Androsovych and sister … Read more