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The legislation expands a popular child tax credit and applies to families with multiple children. It also speeds up some tax breaks for research and development expensing for corporations.

Political observers say Kamala Harris' experience as the daughter of immigrants has intertwined with her career as a prosecutor to form a pattern: pro-immigration but tough in enforcing the law.

Japanese Art Historian and Curator of the exhibition "Washi Transformed" Meher McArthur will explore the wonders of Japanese handmade paper, or washi, and share her experience working with the nine outstanding Japanese contemporary artists featured in the exhibition. Meher McArthur is an Asian art historian specializing in Japanese art, with degrees from Cambridge University and London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She was Curator of East Asian Art at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA (1998-2006), Creative Director for the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden, Pasadena (2014-2020), Academic Curator for Scripps College, Claremont (2018-2020) and Art and Cultural Director for JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles (2020-2022). For over a decade, she has curated traveling exhibitions for International Arts & Artists (IA&A), most recently Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper (2021-2024). Her new exhibition for IA&A is KIMONO: Garment, Canvas, and Artistic Muse (2025-2029). She recently curated the exhibition SHIKI: The Four Seasons in Japanese Art at the Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens (February- May 2023). Her major publications include Gods and Goblins: Folk Paintings from Otsu (PAM, 1999), Reading Buddhist Art (Thames & Hudson, 2002) and The Arts of Asia (Thames & Hudson, 2005), Confucius (Pegasus Books, 2011), Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami (IA&A, 2012), New Expressions in Origami Art (Tuttle, 2017), Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper (IA&A, 2021) and the children’s book An ABC of What Art Can Be (The Getty Museum, 2010). She lives in Pasadena, CA.

Cheaper versions of Wegovy and Zepbound touted on social media could be fleeting. Copies are legal now because the brand-name drugs are in short supply. But the drugmakers are boosting production.

The dictators of today aren't united by ideology, writes Anne Applebaum: They operate like companies, focused on preserving their wealth, repressing their people and maintaining power at all costs.

PacArts new executive director talks about the 24th annual film festival and telling Asian stories.

NPR has suspended Senior Editor Uri Berliner after he wrote an essay accusing the public radio network of becoming too progressive in its news coverage and losing the public's trust.

The majority of the families are accusing a set of parents of attempting a “money grab” that would get them “outsized recoveries.” The trustee has asked the bankruptcy court to intervene.

As thousands of delegates flocked to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, they sported outfits that symbolized their support for Kamala Harris.

The latest version of the budget cuts funding by a combined $200 million for the state’s two public university systems.