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LOS ANGELES — It's 4:30 a.m. on a Tuesday and the lights are blazing at Food Forward's Pit Stop warehouse. Big trucks are lining up waiting their turn while forklifts whiz around the loading dock, pulling pallets of ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Born into a family of devout Catholics, Marc Floto was almost destined to be an altar boy at his local church, the former Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Baltimore County.

So when he was 5 or 6 years...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Monique Gary, a breast cancer surgeon, is a self-described "Philly girl" who was born in Jefferson Einstein hospital and graduated from Philadelphia High School for Girls.

Four years ago, she left city ...Read more

The federal government in 2020 and 2023 changed who it said could safely donate organs and blood, reducing the restrictions on men who have had sex with another man.

But the FDA’s restrictions on donated tissue, a ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Larry Hogan and Donald Trump will appear in November for the first time together on Maryland’s ballot, but they won’t necessarily share equal space in the hearts of Republicans in counties like Dorchester...Read more

GRASS VALLEY, Calif. — Here in the rugged foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada, the streets aren’t littered with needles and dealers aren’t hustling drugs on the corner.

But meth is almost as easy to come by as...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Aditya Prabhu loved eating the peaches off the tree in the backyard of his mom's house.

The only problem was the plant produced only a few fruits a year because Japanese beetles in the hundreds would eat at...Read more

Polls pretty consistently have told the same story for months now. President Joe Biden is unpopular — his latest approval ratings are in the mid-30s, perilous territory for an incumbent seeking a second term — and if ...Read more

ATLANTA — When Joseph Larche’s wife, Diane, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last April, both knew they were in for an uphill battle.

“She took it very hard because she said ‘I want to live’ and I said, ‘...Read more

High atop a Century City tower with floor-to-ceiling views of the Westside, a group of venture capitalists, other investors and startup founders picked at charcuterie boards, sipped drinks and debated the future of tech ...Read more

Father’s Day is around the corner, and Dad deserves something nice. I know my dad suffered through years of ties and cologne before I was old enough to know what he really wanted.

I’ve got three gift ideas and one is ...Read more

Color me skeptical, but I’ll believe the recent news about the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Treasury acting to increase the threshold on reportable slot machine jackpots when I see it.

Last week, there was a report...Read more

When Puttshack opened in Philadelphia's Center City as a spot for drinks, food, and mini golf last weekend, it became the second business of its kind in about a two-mile radius.

Mini golf isn’t just for kids anymore. ...Read more

The American Lung Association’s latest State of the Air report concludes that even though Americans have changed their ways significantly over the last 50-plus years, the struggle to provide cleaner air is far from being...Read more

For the past year and a half, Tandra Cooper Harris and her husband, Marcus, who both have diabetes, have struggled to fill their prescriptions for the medications they need to control their blood sugar.

Without Ozempic or...Read more

Does how much you sleep affect your heart? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adults who sleep fewer than seven hours each night are more likely to experience health problems.

Dr. Juan Cardenas ...Read more

Free and fair elections, the foundation of our democracy, face an unprecedented array of threats as the next one approaches. While some of these threats are well-known, others go largely unnoticed, with potentially serious...Read more

It's an idea that always beguiles but never delivers.

Why can't L.A. have a homelessness "czar," a single person with the power to corral and direct the hodgepodge of agencies, as well as bridge the political divides that...Read more

In many regions of the U.S. and the world, enjoying the great outdoors comes with a hidden risk: ticks and the diseases they carry. Ticks can carry pathogens like Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia mayonii, which can cause ...Read more

Venezuela withdrew an invitation to European Union election monitors, reducing the chances that the international community will accept the results of the upcoming presidential election in July.

The National Electoral ...Read more