A majority of Virginians supported a referendum expanding the state Constitution to provide real estate tax relief to surviving spouses of service members who died in the line of duty. The ...

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LaylaBird / Getty Images When a spouse dies, each of their assets transfers to their beneficiary, who is typically their surviving spouse. Unlike Social Security benefits, which have an automatic ...

The rule allowed recipients to switch between their benefits and their spouses’ to receive the maximum amount. But unless you were born before Jan. 1, 1954, you have not been able to take ...

The fire came amid an unseasonably warm November. A wind-whipped Southern California brush fire that exploded to over 20,000 acres in about 24 hours, destroying homes and prompting mass ...

The Storm Prediction Center has issued an “extremely critical” level 3 of 3 risk for fire weather conditions in parts of Los Angeles and Ventura counties in Southern California. A brush fire ...

It’s hard not to feel fatalistic about California’s future on this Wednesday morning. But the past offers us some hope. By the time I started working as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times ...

Mandatory evacuation orders are in effect in several zones, according to Cal Fire — California's wildfire-fighting agency — which said on its website the fast-moving blaze represented "an ...

Voters in California and across the United States went to the polls on Tuesday to determine the next president and the balance of power in Congress. Early Wednesday morning, The Associated Press ...

California put a raft of propositions before voters this year in what could be seen as a referendum on Governor Gavin Newsom's leadership in the state. Voters already passed Newsom's mental health ...

"Not only does a surviving spouse face potential higher taxes in the single bracket, but it may also increase their Medicare Part B and D premiums," said certified financial planner Judy Brown ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has won her home state of California, CBS News projects, securing the state's 54 electoral votes, the most of any state. Deep-blue California has not voted to send a ...