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FILE - In this March 18, 2020, file photo, the state Assembly Chambers sits empty at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. New political maps have upended the Legislature in 2022 and many new faces will be seen in both houses when it reconvenes after the November election.

California wants to slash insulin prices by becoming a drugmaker — can it succeed?

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration says roughly 4 million Californians have been diagnosed with diabetes, a disease that can destroy organs, steal eyesight and lead to amputations if it’s not controlled.

Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, May 5, 2022.

Inside the Azovstal factory: Ukrainians 'only hope for a miracle'

The close-quarter battle inside the steel plant — the last Ukrainian stronghold of the strategic port city of Mariupol --appeared increasingly desperate.

The military has shifted its focus to technologically-advanced opponents

After years of fighting insurgent forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has shifted its focus to technologically-advanced opponents, especially China. The Marine Corps is taking the lead.

Abortion-rights advocates demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court last December as it heard a case that could strike down the constitutional right to abortion. Economists say decades of research show that doing so would limit women's economic prospects.

Women who are denied abortions risk falling deeper into poverty. So do their kids

A large body of research shows being denied an abortion limits women's education, time in the workforce and wages. It also finds long-term negative impacts for their children.

A rider makes their way along RAGBRAI's route on a foggy morning Wednesday, July 28, outside of Emmetsburg, Iowa, on Day 4 of the annual recreational bike ride across the state of Iowa.

RAGBRAI: Riding a bike across Iowa isn't for the sane. Sign me up.

The Des Moines Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa is about to celebrate 50 years of pie, gravel roads and a community eager to make you forget about your troubles.

The Hall of Justice, where the District Attorney’s office is housed, in Downtown San Diego is shown on Jan. 29, 2019.

Wage theft claims are rising again in San Diego, but prosecutions are rare

A new law takes aim at wage theft, which disproportionately impacts lower-wage workers, especially immigrants, women and people of color.

These workers were promised green cards following Hurricane Katrina. Instead they were issued temporary visas that bound them to a single employer.

Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare

After Hurricane Katrina in 2006, hundreds of workers from India were promised jobs in what labor organizer Saket Soni calls "one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history."

Jewish townspeople of the village of Nasielsk, Poland in 1938.

'The Territory' and 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' find cinematic hope in tragedy

Two documentaries — one involving a pre-WWII home movie, the other dispatches from the Amazon rainforest — have much in common.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, third from left, talk during their meeting in Kyiv on Saturday.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (May 1)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The western bumblebee, shown here, was once very common in California but a survey done in 2019 failed to find any examples of of them. Photo is undated.

Survey of California bumble bees fails to detect 8 species historically found in the state

Entomologists at UC Riverside say they couldn’t find a single example of eight out of California’s 25 bumble bee species.

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