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Heroin use is on the rise in the United States. The number of Americans using the drug has increased by about 50 percent in the past decade, according to a 2013 report ...
A group of faculty and students at a small college want to cap the president’s pay based on what the janitors earn. About a dozen faculty members and 30 students at S...
Conservatives like to say that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” In other words, if an executive makes $20 million a year, his income will eventually trickle down in...
California may soon require the highest minimum wage of any U.S. state. State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) introduced a bill Monday to raise the state minimum wage ...
California is dry as a bone, and the effects are like something out of an apocalyptic film. Cities are running out of water. Communities are fighting over what little w...
Imagine being able to lease a 3D printer to build your entire house. The technology, called Contour Crafting, is already here and can build a 2,500-square-foot home in ...
Los Angeles may soon require the highest minimum wage in America. In the coming weeks, three city council members plan to introduce a motion to raise the minimum wage t...
Outsiders stereotype Los Angeles as car-addicted, polluted and lacking in public transit. But the City of Angels has undergone major changes over the past few decades. ...
California has both the most ultra-wealthy individuals and the highest poverty rate of any U.S. state, according to recent reports. “This chasm is growing day by day,...
Surrounded by about 100 police officers in riot gear and a helicopter circling above, more than 50 Walmart workers and supporters were arrested in downtown Los Angeles ...
One Walmart worker says she’s had enough with the company’s “poverty wages” and is taking her grievances straight to the top — to President Barack Obama. Char...
Hollywood studios appear to be missing the mark when it comes to representing one of their biggest consumers on the big screen. Latinos go to more movies than any other...
LOS ANGELES — Transportation Security Administration officers are tasked with keeping America’s airline passengers safe. But TSA officers are often powerless in the...
Demonstrators in cities across the U.S. took to the streets Tuesday to protest what they say is an “epidemic of police brutality.” Organizers say protests took plac...
Los Angeles is considering banning the cultivation and sale of genetically modified organisms. If it does, the second-largest U.S. city would become the country’s lar...