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Giving Up on the Dream: Asylum Seekers Try Other Options in Mexico

Many migrants who were hoping to reach the U.S. are now stuck in a backlog with Mexico's refugee agency; others are going home.

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This L.A. Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Whitewashing, Vowing to ‘Scrub Nothing’

The Japanese American National Museum stands out among cultural institutions by refusing to bend to President Trump’s attacks on diversity, history and the truth.

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To Protect Underage Farmworkers, California Expands Oversight of Field Conditions

State agencies to join forces to crack down on child labor violations after Capital & Main found enforcement breakdowns.

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Can California Claw Back Some Medi-Cal Care?

Trump's “Beautiful Bill” is set to drive millions of Americans from Medicaid. The Golden State’s leaders are trying to lessen the damage.

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Home Care Workers Are Losing Minimum Wage Protections — and Fighting Back

Three million care workers, many of them Black and Latina women, could be classified as “companions” instead of professionals.

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Trump’s Anti-Climate Policies Are Driving Up Insurance Costs for Homeowners, Say Experts

Tariffs, extreme weather events and the president’s funding cuts are contributing to increasing rates, sometimes by double digits.

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Utility Asks New Mexico for ‘Zero Emission’ Status for Gas-Fired Power Plant

Plan puts costs of new solar farms on New Mexicans and extends lives of coal-fired plants. Critics call it “profound greenwashing.”

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Accountable to No One: What 1990s L.A. Teaches Us About the Trump Resistance

Danny Goldberg, whose new book chronicles the post-Rodney King push to remove LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, talks about parallels between 1992 and the Trump era.

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Santa Fe’s Plan for a Real Minimum Wage Offers Lessons for Costly California

New Mexico’s fourth largest city is integrating the average rent into calculations of its lowest pay rate.

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Is the Solution to Hunger All Around Us in Fertile California?

A program in Los Angeles County is recycling unused food to feed hungry residents — and offering a model for other cities.

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‘I’m Lost in This Country’: Non-Mexicans Living Undocumented After Deportation to Mexico

Cubans and other third-country nationals are dropped off on the streets of Villahermosa where they struggle to survive.

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California Endures Whipsaw Climate Extremes as Federal Support Withers

Data and aid to fight landslides fueled by bigger fires and intense storms are imperiled under Trump

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Seven Years Into Gov. Newsom’s Tenure, California’s Housing Crisis Remains Unsolved

Despite a burst of new housing laws, buying a home in California is increasingly unattainable – especially for lower-income earners, a new report shows.

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How Employers and Labor Groups Are Trying to Protect Workers From ICE

Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to shield employees from immigration raids.

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After Years of Sparring, Gov. Shapiro Abandons Pennsylvania’s Landmark Climate Initiative

Environmentalists see decision as 'shocking reversal' on fighting global warming; fossil fuel industry claims it would have led to higher utility bills.

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Future of Special Education at Risk, Teachers Say, as Trump Moves to Cut Staff and Programs

Special education teachers fear the Trump administration’s funding cuts and layoffs will unravel progress for millions of students with disabilities.

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In South L.A., Black and Latino Neighbors Unite Against ICE as Systems Fail

As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.

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Can an Imperiled Frog Stop Oil Drilling Near Denver Suburbs? Residents Hope So.

Threatened northern leopard frogs found near site of what would be one of state's largest fossil fuel operations.

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Barring a Sharp Shift, Health Insurance Costs Will Skyrocket

Many of the 24 million working and middle-class Americans insured through the Affordable Care Act may forgo insurance if their bills multiply.

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Known for Its Oil, Texas Became a Renewable Energy Leader. Now It’s Being Unplugged.

The state was to get $400 million for solar energy in disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration took it all back.

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Photos, Video, Protests — Homeland Security Tightens Rule on Anti-ICE Activities

Activists fear the Trump administration will use the rule to cover up misconduct by immigration officials.

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U.S. Deports Asylum Seekers to Southern Mexico Without Their Phones

The Trump administration's deportation flights to the Mexican southern border towns of Tapachula and Villahermosa leave people stranded with few resources.

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Congress Could Get Millions of People Off of SNAP by Raising the Minimum Wage, but It Hasn’t — for 16 Years

1 in 8 people rely on federal food aid that has become a pawn in the government shutdown.

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The David vs. Goliath Story of a Ranching Family and an Oil Giant

They were cowboys amid the mesas in a corner of New Mexico. For years they coexisted with an oil company — until one day they couldn’t.

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Despite Vow to Protect Health Care for Veterans, VA Losing Doctors and Nurses

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