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Morgan Stephens is a reporter that covers politics, elections and public policy in Los Angeles, California.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti used the national spotlight in Washington on Thursday to urge his fellow mayors to make gender equity a top priority, highlighting his city's efforts to put more women in top jobs.
Bernie Sanders has come a long way from where he started three years ago. The thousands of supporters who attended his rally in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday are proof of the movement he has built. Sanders was in LA as the second stop on a weekend tour across California that also took him to San Diego and San Francisco.
Drills and hammers pounded away as Robert Evans stood in front of the apartment building he had called home for 15 years. Tools were scattered across the dead grass, left behind as workers made improvements meant to lure new, higher-paying tenants.
In July 2018, the Trump administration rolled back Obama-era regulations meant to mitigate the greenhouse gases emitted by coal-burning power plants. Six months later, Democratic lawmakers introduced their Green New Deal, which - in spirit - would overhaul transportation and energy infrastructure in an effort to move Americans toward completely renewable energy sources.
With technological advances in medicine, researchers are testing modifiable lifestyle factors, groundbreaking vaccines, and preventative drugs for Alzheimer's disease-giving new hope for future generations. By Morgan Stephens Photos: Courtesy of Keck Medicine of USC Alzheimer's disease is the only top 10 cause of death in the United States that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed, although this bleak fact could soon be changing.
As she chuckled at the irony of the situation, Thuy Thanh Truong confessed her shock when she received the news in September of last year. "I was like, what? How is that even possible? The person who goes to the gym every single day and doesn't even smoke," Truong said.
Renee Firestone shares her story of living through Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp; California College Media Awards First Place Best Feature Story 2017
USC will welcome 3,350 freshman students this fall, the biggest incoming freshman class in the University's history. Although admission offers decreased from 9,181 offers in 2015 to 8,980 offers in 2017, the number of students accepting their offer has been on the rise. 32 percent of freshman accepted their admissions offer in 2015; this number ...
Opinion piece about solutions to police brutality
Local Coverage for Women's March in Los Angeles