One challenge facing John Kerry in his new role as climate envoy to President-elect Joe Biden will be to convince other governments the U.S. will abide by its commitments.

A synthetic version of the psychedelic drug ibogaine appears to relieve depression and addiction without producing hallucinations or other dangerous side effects — at least in rodents.

On Wednesday UCLA economists released their quarterly Anderson forecast, in which researchers predicted an enthusiastic economic rebound through the 2020s.

When President-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office, he'll have 16 days to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to save the last arms control treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals.

For many of us, the pandemic has been eye-opening in terms of exposing just how reliant we are on social interactions with our friends to help provide us a sense of purpose.

California public schools are lacking when it comes to civic learning and democratic engagement, according to a new Leveraging Equity and Access in Democratic Education (LEADE) report.

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Tim Brewer from UCLA.

Late Sunday night, a stay-at-home order went into effect that will effectively keep much of Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley under state restrictions for at least three weeks.

The U.S. is taking a major step this week towards the approval of the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine as an independent panel of experts convened by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will meet on Thursday to discuss whether the evidence is strong enough to recommend emergency use authorization (EUA) of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech.

Top House Democrats want to revive the spending practice that allows members to request money for specific projects. It has been effectively banned since 2011.