Proposition 35, which would use revenue from a tax on managed-care plans to raise the pay of health care providers who serve ...

A new bill would create a scholarship program for students who agree to work with specialized courts in California to get ...

Longer life spans, rising rates of divorce, widowhood, and childlessness, and smaller, far-flung families are fueling a “gray ...

Despite years of national strategies to address the suicide crisis in the U.S., rates continue to rise. A chorus of ...

California lawmakers are moving to rein in the pharmaceutical middlemen they say drive up costs and limit consumers’ choices.

SIKESTON, Mo. — For residents of Sikeston, as for Black Americans around the country, speaking openly about experiences with racial violence can be taboo and, in some cases, forbidden. As a child, ...

The “Silence in Sikeston” documentary film explores how the nation’s first federally investigated lynching and a police killing 78 years apart haunt the same rural Missouri community. The film from ...

The generally combative face-off was marked by a series of false and sometimes bizarre statements from former President ...

Many Catholic health systems, which are tax-exempt, pay their executives millions and can charge some of the highest prices around — while critics say they scrimp on commitments to their communities.

Andrew Douglass, who is homeless and lives on the streets of San Francisco, gathers his belongings as the San Francisco Police Department orders him to move off the sidewalk, where he has slept for ...

SIKESTON, Mo. — I wasn’t sure if visiting a cotton field was a good idea. Almost everyone in my family was antsy when we pulled up to the sea of white. This story also ran on The Emancipator. It can ...