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A law gives Californians sweeping new data privacy rights and could reverberate nationwide — all because a rich Bay Area real estate developer leveraged the state's ballot initiative process.

Regional leaders have publicly called for more so-called recuperative care beds to aid homeless San Diegans recovering from major health issues. There are only a few dozen of those beds countywide – and the San Diego Rescue Mission, which had for years operated the largest facility in central San Diego, halted its program just as a new state law governing how hospitals release patients took effect.

Biographer Linda Gordon chronicles Morath's escape from Nazi Germany, her boundary-breaking career and her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller.

Federal, state, county and most local city government offices will be closed Monday in honor of Presidents Day.

The designation gives economically disadvantaged neighborhoods an edge in securing federal support to create jobs, ramp up the local economy, improve education and access to affordable housing, and lower the crime rate.

Journalist Will Hunt is fascinated with the world below us: "Every manhole, every doorway, every stairway going down into the dark [feels] like a potential portal into this like separate world."

Pyotr Verzilov, a member of the activist group Pussy Riot and the publisher of an independent media outlet, was reportedly rushed to the hospital on Tuesday, where he remains in critical condition.

She was behind such seminal works as the English-language The Diary of Anne Frank and Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Jones died Wednesday from Alzheimer's complications, according to family.

A promised crackdown on people living in this country illegally could mean a boon for private prison companies that contract with the government to hold detainees.

Christian Bale plays Dick Cheney in new film