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Virginia Johnson, 73, the outgoing artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem poses in one of the company's ballet studios at 466 West 152nd street in New York City, N.Y. on Thursday, June 22, 2023. She joined the company in 1969 as a founding member and prima ballerina, returning to it as the Artistic Director from 2009-2023.

Virginia Johnson on her time at Dance Theatre of Harlem: 'It was love'

When Virginia Johnson joined the Dance Theatre of Harlem, it was often confused with the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. This week Johnson retires as artistic director of the pioneering company.

<em>Michael</em> is Killer Mike's first solo album since 2012, after over a decade of focusing on his duo Run the Jewels.

Killer Mike at the top of the mountain

Faith and religion have been career-long themes for the Run the Jewels rapper — if often in a wary, ambivalent light. But on Michael, his first solo LP in over a decade, something has changed.

A mother's understanding of her son is transformed with a single phone call

Barbara spent years trying to understand her son's difficult behavior. Then someone said something that made her realize that it was no one's fault.

People walk into the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the day that the court's majority rejected the once-fringe idea that state legislatures' power over congressional elections cannot be checked or balanced by state constitutions or state courts.

What the Supreme Court's rejection of a controversial theory means for elections

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject the most extreme version of the "independent state legislature theory" is expected to bring some stability to the 2024 elections — and invite more lawsuits.

Bud Light sales fell earlier this year after a promotion featuring a transgender social-media influencer led to boycott calls from conservative groups.

How the Bud Light boycott shows brands at a crossroads: Use their voice, or shut up?

Large companies have played the role of activists and been one of the biggest countervailing forces against social and religious conservatives on LGBTQ measures. All that is at stake now.

The San Diego County Administration building in downtown San Diego.

Supervisors OK emergency declaration on cross-border pollution

San Diego County supervisors unanimously approved a proclamation Tuesday declaring a state of emergency due to pollution and sewage flowing across the U.S.-Mexico border.

FILE - Fast food workers and their supporters march past the California state Capitol in Sacramento, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders have agreed to restore funding to the Industrial Welfare Commission, which has the power to regulate wages, hours and working conditions in California. Business groups oppose restoring the commission. A law that would create a similar commission to regulate the fast food industry passed last year but has been put on hold pending the outcome of a 2024 referendum.

California's law aimed at fast food wages is on hold. Lawmakers may have found a way around it

A new California law aimed in part at increasing salaries for fast food workers has been delayed.

Julian Sands is best known for starring opposite Helena Bonham Carter in the 1985 film <em>A Room with a View</em>. He's pictured above in Mexico City in May 2012.

Actor Julian Sands found dead in California after going missing on hike

The English actor was best known for starring opposite Helena Bonham Carter in the 1985 film A Room with a View. He was 65.

The City of San Diego is planning to use a parking lot at 20th and B Street, shown here, as a a safe sleeping site, June 26, 2023.

Mayor Todd Gloria's homeless shelter strategy is mostly unfunded. Here's what it could cost

San Diegans are divided on how to address homelessness while the city moves forward with a new law to ban encampments in public spaces.

Gov. Gavin Newsom delivers his annual State of the State address in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, March 8, 2022.

California's new budget covers $32 billion deficit without touching reserves

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders have reached an agreement on how to spend the state's tax dollars over the next year.

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