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Last week, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security extended temporary deportation protections to roughly one million U.S. immigrants.

It was a sweeping move that brings a measure of stability to immigrant ...Read more

From the start of his campaign to retake the White House, President-elect Donald Trump promised to go big on his first day back in power.

In a series of early videos outlining his plans and in stump speeches across the ...Read more

Despite failing to win a second term that he badly wanted, Joe Biden’s time in the White House had some very real accomplishments and should not be measured as a failed presidency.

While those minority of U.S. ...Read more

For years, the Food and Drug Administration has taken up arms against clinics hawking unproven and ineffective stem cell treatments to desperate patients looking for cures of intractable diseases and conditions such as ...Read more

"When I stand here today, about to take the Oath of Office, the flags at half-staff remind me of the long line of presidents. In particular, I am reminded of President Jimmy Carter, a man of honor, compassion and duty, a...Read more

Fire has always played a crucial role in Southern California’s ecosystem, which features dry conditions and strong, hot desert winds called the Santa Anas, which blow from the east each winter. Many native plants require...Read more

One of the longest, most technical and, as it turns out, most inconsequential public-policy debates of the 21st-century was about net neutrality. Now that a federal appeals court has effectively ended the debate by ...Read more

Last Wednesday morning, after a singularly terrifying night of fire in Los Angeles, people miles away from Altadena or Pacific Palisades discovered more than ash in their backyards. The pages of books, some almost entirely...Read more

Kim Kardashian posted a plea to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Instagram last week saying wages for inmates fighting the Los Angeles County wildfires should be raised. Right now, they’re paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day, ...Read more

Ten years ago, Sue Latta fought to have her marriage recognized legally in Idaho.

It’s her name on the lawsuit, Latta v. Otter, that officially legalized same-sex marriage in Idaho in October 2014, months before the U.S...Read more

For the second time this month, former first lady Michelle Obama is snubbing Donald Trump, yet another sign that sore loser Democrats can’t handle Trump’s election victory.

Mrs. Obama, who has been touted as a ...Read more

On top of the human tragedy they’re still inflicting, the Los Angeles wildfires are exposing a gap between what people thought their homes were worth and what they’ll actually get from insurance companies when those ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump intends to pursue a hard-line policy on undocumented workers, deporting millions in what he has billed as the “largest deportation” in the nation’s history.

The inspiration for this plan...Read more

Ten years ago, a radical spine cancer surgery simultaneously saved my life and disabled me.

I had been a very active person, but after surgery, my legs were partially paralyzed. Initially, I leaned on stories of fellow ...Read more

As bad as the fires in the Los Angeles area have been — more than 12,000 structures burned, about 180,000 people evacuated, more than 35,000 acres scorched, and at least 25 deaths— they could have been even worse. ...Read more

As the San Joaquin Valley now confronts widespread fear in its immigrant communities caused by recent sweeps by U.S. Border Patrol agents, one fact remains true as it has for years now:

If Donald Trump and congressional ...Read more

"It is not enough in life that one succeed," the droll economist John Kenneth Galbraith is supposed to have said. "Others must fail."

We're at a moment, in this week before Donald Trump's second inauguration, when the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Brett Shumate to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division, choosing a veteran litigator to run an office that will defend the incoming ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams is traveling to Florida on Friday to meet with President-elect Donald Trump amid concern the incoming president’s immigration and fiscal policies could have a major impact on New Yorkers.

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