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Born into poverty and abandoned by her parents, Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo rises from a life selling sweets in the street to become the first female Dominican doctor in 1911.

"I had to innovate new classes because COVID-19 sent the students home," the physical organic chemist and chemistry professor says.

LA Times columnist calls Mayor Karen Bass's firing of LAFD chief an act of political desperation as much as a take-charge moment.

Destroyed homes, soaring insurance premiums and forest management costs put the price of the Los Angeles fires in the hundreds of billions of dollars. But these staggering figures mask a darker ledger where costs compound silently over decades.

As California officials work to remove physical and regulatory obstacles so residents can start rebuilding, what is the ideal postfire situation?

With the 2026 Winter Games in Italy less than a year away, Russian athletes could be largely absent from their second consecutive Olympics.

CBS News highlights a group of Riverside veterans that buries soldiers weekly who die without family members.

The Los Angeles wildfires are still far from completely contained. But even as swaths of the city remain under threat for at least a few more days, it’s hard not to wonder what comes next.

Villians were everywhere and more relatable than ever.

The Washington Post has found more than three times as many deaths as the U.S. government documented in its investigation of Indian boarding schools.