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LOS ANGELES – Viridiana has been in agony these past few months, wondering if at any moment she might lose her job, her health insurance, maybe even be deported. A DACA recipient, Viridiana (who asked that we only use her middle name) has waited a year-and-a-half for her status...
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Some of the hottest casting calls in Hollywood right now aren’t for Netflix, Disney or HBO. They’re for TikTok. In January 2026, TikTok rolled out PineDrama in the United States and Brazil, an app devoted to microdramas, also known as “verticals.” Unlike TikTok’s traditional user-generated content, PineDrama primarily features scripted series produced by...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Black and Hispanic women face the greatest risk of not being able to access abortion care if the Supreme Court this week upholds a lower court’s ban to end delivery of mifepristone —an abortion pill — by mail. If the Supreme Court does agree...
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Mayo es el mes dedicado a Santa María, Madre de Dios. Virgen de la Candelaria Acordaos Piadosísima Virgen de la Candelaria, que jamás se ha escuchado decir que alguno que a vos se acogiese, y pidiese socorro y protección, haya sido desamparado. Animado con tal dulce confianza, acudo a...
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Marisa Kendall CalMatters In the race for oversight over California’s budget, the two main contenders are an incumbent with three years of experience and a challenger who is set on exposing fraudulent and wasteful spending. Democrat Malia Cohen has served as controller (AKA California’s chief accountant) since 2023, and...
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Latino leaders are asking candidates running for governor in the Golden State to commit to the policies contained in their new “Health, Wealth and Dignity Agenda for California.” The nonprofit Hispanic Federation called for what it described as bold changes to the way the state treats Latinos, who make...
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Roddy Scheer y Doug Moss EarthTalk Wildfires are escalating globally, and the threat extends beyond destruction by flames. NASA warns that “Earth’s warming climate is amplifying wildland fire activity,” citing that “extreme wildfire activity has more than doubled worldwide.” The severity of these fires degrades water quality in the...
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Huge swaths of overgrown forests in California pose a risk for catastrophic wildfires, and today, the State Assembly will consider advancing two bills to promote intentional burns that lower the risk of disaster. The Beneficial Fire Capacity Act would allocate 10% of the annual wildfire resilience portion of the...
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Maya C. Miller, Jeremia Kimelman & Mohamed Al Elew CalMatters Two years ago, Chiefer Danks of Rosedale, who works in agriculture, believed the former president would stabilize the economy and make life more affordable again as it was under his first administration. But more than a year into the...
LOS ANGELES – Viridiana has been in agony these past few months, wondering if at any moment she might lose her job, her health insurance, maybe even be deported. A DACA recipient, Viridiana (who asked that we only use her middle name) has waited a year-and-a-half for her status...
Some of the hottest casting calls in Hollywood right now aren’t for Netflix, Disney or HBO. They’re for TikTok. In January 2026, TikTok rolled out PineDrama in the United States and Brazil, an app devoted to microdramas, also known as “verticals.” Unlike TikTok’s traditional user-generated content, PineDrama primarily features scripted series produced by...
Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Black and Hispanic women face the greatest risk of not being able to access abortion care if the Supreme Court this week upholds a lower court’s ban to end delivery of mifepristone —an abortion pill — by mail. If the Supreme Court does agree...
Mayo es el mes dedicado a Santa María, Madre de Dios. Virgen de la Candelaria Acordaos Piadosísima Virgen de la Candelaria, que jamás se ha escuchado decir que alguno que a vos se acogiese, y pidiese socorro y protección, haya sido desamparado. Animado con tal dulce confianza, acudo a...
Marisa Kendall CalMatters In the race for oversight over California’s budget, the two main contenders are an incumbent with three years of experience and a challenger who is set on exposing fraudulent and wasteful spending. Democrat Malia Cohen has served as controller (AKA California’s chief accountant) since 2023, and...
Latino leaders are asking candidates running for governor in the Golden State to commit to the policies contained in their new “Health, Wealth and Dignity Agenda for California.” The nonprofit Hispanic Federation called for what it described as bold changes to the way the state treats Latinos, who make...
Roddy Scheer y Doug Moss EarthTalk Wildfires are escalating globally, and the threat extends beyond destruction by flames. NASA warns that “Earth’s warming climate is amplifying wildland fire activity,” citing that “extreme wildfire activity has more than doubled worldwide.” The severity of these fires degrades water quality in the...
Huge swaths of overgrown forests in California pose a risk for catastrophic wildfires, and today, the State Assembly will consider advancing two bills to promote intentional burns that lower the risk of disaster. The Beneficial Fire Capacity Act would allocate 10% of the annual wildfire resilience portion of the...
Maya C. Miller, Jeremia Kimelman & Mohamed Al Elew CalMatters Two years ago, Chiefer Danks of Rosedale, who works in agriculture, believed the former president would stabilize the economy and make life more affordable again as it was under his first administration. But more than a year into the...