Under President George W. Bush, the United States withdrew from its decades-long role as a global leader in supporting family planning, driven by a conservative ideology that favored abstinence and shied away from providing contraceptive devices in developing countries, even to married women.
Bush's mammoth global anti-AIDS initiative, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, poured billions of dollars into Africa but prohibited groups from spending any of it on family planning services or counseling programs, whose budgets flat-lined.
Less than a year after the Palisades fire destroyed nearly 7,000 structures in Los Angeles, the...
Concerns over a small brush fire that reignited days later into the mammoth Palisades fire –...
A powerful atmospheric river weather system has mostly moved through California but not before causing at...
A powerful storm doused California with heavy rain on Friday, prompting evacuation warnings as the state...
