Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkeley is waging a largely one-man crusade to reform the Senate filibuster. He sees it as a way to help end obstructionism and address the Senate’s increasing dysfunction.

Comedian Andy Dick reportedly told TMZ that he is alive and relieved after a video showed him unresponsive from an apparent drug overdose in the streets of Hollywood.

Government figures released Thursday show California’s unemployment rate rose, while a Chapman University forecast predicts slow job growth next year.

USC is expected to play the 2028 football season at SoFi Stadium because it is hard to remove an Olympic track added to the Coliseum for the LA28 Games.

The state’s proposed ‘zone zero’ rules are commonsense fire safety, proponents say, but opponents fear they will decimate Southern California’s urban forest.