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Detainees have lodged a complaint concerning “abuses, atrocities, violations of human rights, racism and hate.”
Rent-controlled properties remain on home-sharing platforms like Airbnb in violation of a new ordinance.
A family of toxins known as PFAS has gotten its closeup on the silver screen via Dark Waters. Will regulators take note?
A deeply funded lobbying group led by a former Hillary Clinton aide is out to kill Medicare for All. Its ideological roots run back to the Truman era.
The billionaire’s controversial training program has found a new home at Yale University.
Immigrant detainees are not convicted criminals, yet they suffer hostile, prison-like conditions in America for years at a time.
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For indigenous people, Thanksgiving was a painful reminder of how past governments have dealt with their communities. But the season can also be a moment of hopeful reflection about the future.
An anti-immigrant law made Tony Valdovinos miserable, but he didn’t leave Arizona. Instead, he knocked on doors.
A federal court ruling allows hundreds of thousands of former detainees to sue the GEO Group.
In this swing state, Phoenix’s Maricopa County will be the battleground within the battleground.
Test your knowledge about inequities in America’s health care system.
Los Angeles-Hollywood-area parents say they were not consulted about a new middle school whose student body would be drawn from whiter and wealthier schools.
Academics accuse Trump’s Justice Department of systematically deleting immigration court records.
Measuring the shame of America’s “best economy ever.”
The Trump administration is fighting back against a new law phasing out privately run immigrant-detention centers.
Drug overdoses are the single greatest factor contributing to Los Angeles’ rising rate of homeless mortality, a report claims.
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Five days after a bill ending private prisons in the state was signed into law, the Trump administration found a way to get around it.