Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who ripped into liberals, foretold the rise of Donald Trump and laid waste to political correctness with a merry brand of malice that made him one of the most powerful voices on the American right, died Wednesday. He was 70.

Anger over Texas’ power grid failing in the face of a record winter freeze continued to mount Wednesday as millions of residents in the energy capital of the U.S. remained shivering with no assurances that their electricity and heat — out since Monday in many homes — would return soon or stay on once it finally does.

NFL Hall of Fame cornerback Deion Sanders, who was known during his playing days for his flashy attire, among other things, famously coined the phrase “If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play good. If you play good, they pay good.”

A team of experts is currently trying to track down the origin of COVID-19. Last week, the group from the World Health Organization announced that it’s “highly unlikely” the virus came from a lab in Wuhan China.

Mayor Garcetti announced last week that he was releasing $75 million to continue renting hotel rooms for homeless Angelenos, extending Project Roomkey, with the promise of federal reimbursement from the Biden Administration. But Councilmembers Mike Bonin and Nithya Raman are pushing for the city to move much quicker and to widen the goal for the number of people housed.

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with Dr. Kimberly Shriner, infectious disease specialist at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena.

Virologist Marion Koopmans was part of a WHO team that reconstructed the early coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. She talked with NPR about her team's investigation.

For the first time in nearly a year, health officials gave the green light to LA County elementary schools to fully reopen.

Former President Donald Trump may have been acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial where he faced a charge of incitement of insurrection, but the legal and governmental inquiry in his role in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol Building by a violent mob of pro-Trump extremists is just getting started.

When schools and childcare centers closed with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last March, many working mothers took up the slack.