Somali children show symptoms of a severe protein malnutrition this month in Mogadishu, Somalia. United Nations and U.S. officials are issuing dire warnings about the state of global food supplies. (Farah Abdi Warsameh / Associated Press) The scenes witnessed by journalists and humanitarian workers in recent months have been striking: In Sudan, swollen-bellied babies are … Read more
The young gay man from Florida looked across the table at the two Senate aides no older than himself. A Stanford University student infected with the AIDS virus, he wanted the staff of Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) to hear his story. “I feel I’m really representative of the resources that are being lost to this … Read more
Just before noon on a sunny California Friday, a very pregnant-looking Charlene Modeste steps out of her L.A. home to meet a driver for the weed delivery service Eaze who hands off a bag containing more than $1,000 worth of cannabis products. But things aren’t quite what they appear to be: Modeste hasn’t paid a … Read more
Michael Cosentino and Rion Nakaya on a communal deck that serves as a bridge between their house and a new ADU. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times ) 1 Eight years ago, Rion Nakaya was living in Oakland with husband Michael Cosentino and their two children when her mother, Maggie, lost her partner of 37 … Read more
Specialty pharmacies and online companies that have been selling off-brand copies of two blockbuster drugs for obesity and diabetes will need to phase out their versions next year under a federal decision issued Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration said that a nationwide shortage of Eli Lilly’s Zepbound and Mounjaro has been resolved, eliminating the … Read more
The Jets can’t fly clear of the turbulence. As the team trudges through another difficult losing season, New York Jets fans caught some random fire from “Jeopardy!” Thursday night — just hours after a report alleged that owner Woody Johnson makes crucial team decisions based on player ratings from video-game franchise “Madden NFL.” Fans of … Read more
The outgoing Bush administration is planning to announce a broad new “right of conscience” rule permitting medical facilities, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare workers to refuse to participate in any procedure they find morally objectionable, including abortion and possibly even artificial insemination and birth control. For more than 30 years, federal law has dictated … Read more
President Trump. (Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images) A dozen Senate Republicans joined Democrats on Thursday to vote against President Trump’s border emergency declaration, a stinging rebuke of the White House’s decision to circumvent Congress to deliver on the president’s campaign pledge to build a wall. The 12 Republican defectors sided with all the Democrats and … Read more
The chief cheerleader and fundraiser for Proposition 11, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, has insisted that the push to change how voting districts are drawn is bipartisan. But the half-million dollars donated to the backers’ campaign last week by Florida businessmen with Republican ties has fueled opponents’ claims that it’s a GOP power grab. “Republicans from Florida … Read more
In the last several months, Tim Russert of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” one of TV’s toughest interviewers, struck out with two of his biggest “gets”: In August, he quizzed Sen. John F. Kerry, “You both were members of Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale. What does that tell us?” Kerry: “Not much, because … Read more
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