4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (466+ words) We’re hearing a lot about fraud in federal programs lately. The new Ground Zero for fraud is in California, where a perfect storm of bad government has formed in the last few years. The worst cases involve Medicare and Medicaid....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (872+ words) George Pelecanos always intended to return to Derek Strange, the private investigator at the heart of five novels he wrote between 2001 and 2012. But since the last one, “Right as Rain,” Pelecanos has been a bit busy: There have been two…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (524+ words) When it comes to the Olympic Games sprinting our way in the summer of 2028, everyone wants to talk about money, and no one wants to talk about sports. It wasn’t just sports. The Olympic Arts Festival was 10 weeks of world-class…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (590+ words) When Olivia Rodrigo brings the inaugural Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival to Irvine’s Great Park on Saturday, Aug. 29, the women taking the stage won’t be the only ones the Grammy-winning singer hopes to amplify. The sold-out, single-day festival, expected to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (806+ words) By Claudia Boyd-Barrett | KFF Health News California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (928+ words) By JOHN HANNA and SARAH RAZA The U.S. reopened a border crossing in Arizona to cattle from Mexico on Monday as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to reduce record-high beef prices, though economists doubt the move will…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (500+ words) For years, California has struggled with substantial debt and deficits. Instead of working to reduce the state’s overall debt, policymakers have consistently borrowed more money and passed and expanded programs and public-sector retirement benefits without fully funding them. California has…...