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More than 42,000 people died of gun violence in the United States during 2023. The Dec. 29 figure comes from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that touts itself as an independent data collection and research institute with no affiliation to any advocacy group.

Twenty five years from now, the Inland Empire will be home to more than 5 million people. They will likely be surrounded by mountains that rarely see snow, and clustered more densely into downtowns near shops and mass transit. By 2048, the region will have weathered another pandemic, but nothing so severe as the long-ago coronavirus pandemic of 2020.

If California wants to build its way out of its long term housing shortage, plenty of things stand in its way in 2024: high interest rates, sluggish local approval processes and a persistent shortage of skilled construction workers, among others. But a slew of housing bills from the 2023 legislative session going into effect on Jan. 1 promise to ease or eliminate some of the other burdens.

On January 1, 2024, around 3:23 a.m., deputies assigned to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, Lake Elsinore Station, located an overturned vehicle off the side of Lakeshore Drive, south of Manning Street, in the city of Lake Elsinore.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency. December 15: CMS released the final report on the evaluation of the Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+) Model. CPC+ was a primary care practice transformation model, supporting practices at varying levels of readiness in two tracks.