The updated “public charge” rule allows the government to deny visas and green cards to immigrants who have received public assistance.
As experts advocate for “managed retreat” from eroding coastlines, communities are pushing back.
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The Democratic debate takes the fight back to Detroit, as Rust Belt voters consider alternatives to Trump.
Low-income tenants fighting to remain in their affordable housing complex score a big win at City Hall.
William Barr has ruled that immigrants who fear persecution because of threats to family members no longer qualify for asylum.
Touted as a clean energy, natural gas releases methane, an element that’s much stronger than CO2 at trapping heat leakage, during its drilling and transmission.
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A Boeing 787 with a cracked high-pressure duct was serviced in Chile, then arrived in Chicago with the duct held together by tape and wire.
Eugene Scalia has consistently fought to undermine the very people his department is obligated to protect, and has a long history of defending corporate interests over workers’ rights.
The nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute says nearly 300,000 undocumented immigrants could be quickly deported under a new rule.
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Supporters say vacant-property taxes keep speculators from sitting on properties until they can rent or sell them for more money.
In the state’s cannabis industry, some businesses are less equal than others.
Immigration advocates say a recent announcement of ICE raids was intended by the Trump administration to create fear in immigrant communities.
Frogtown, also known as Elysian Valley, is yet another Los Angeles neighborhood being transformed by gentrification.
In the face of a landmark Supreme Court ruling, public-sector unions are creating new strategies to survive — and in many cases, to grow.
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There has been no shortage of charter school failures in California, and the rate of abrupt school closures is very high across the nation.
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A year after Janus v. AFSCME, right-to-work forces organize against organized labor in California.
Seven immigrant children have died under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policies.
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Today fears about privacy and census confidentiality loom large among African-Americans.