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Civil rights advocates are warning President Donald Trump’s recent executive order rolling back cashless bail reforms for certain crimes is a step backward, arguing it punishes individuals with lower incomes. Nationwide, nearly two-thirds of the more than 526,000 people in jail are awaiting trial, most because of unaffordable bail....
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Small businesses drive California’s economy, and the data is now in from the first year of a program that offers free business coaching. The SCALE program – which stands for “success, capital, access and leadership for entrepreneurs” – is a statewide initiative created by the California Office of the...
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National Football League NEW YORK — The National Football League kicks off Latino Heritage Month with its season-long campaign “Por La Cultura” (For the Culture). This annual initiative showcases Latino players, coaches and staff, while celebrating Latino excellence, the community’s lasting impact on football, and the role it plays...
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La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos volvió a usar la puerta lateral —la famosa “emergency” o shadow docket— para inclinar la balanza migratoria. Con una orden de suspensión, el tribunal permitió esta semana que agentes federales en Los Ángeles reanuden operativos y detenciones indiscriminadas que una jueza había frenado...
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Saludos mis estimados lectores, acá ya preparándonos para recibir la llegada del equinoccio de otoño, el cual dará inicio el día 22 de septiembre. Quiero compartir con todos ustedes, que el pasado domingo 7 de septiembre, tuve la dicha, la gran oportunidad, y el agrado de participar en un...
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Khari Johnson & Yue Stella Yu CalMatters In April, Rhode Island resident Navah Hopkins received a plea for her help to defeat legislation thousands of miles away in California. The ask came from Google, maker of the world’s most used web browser, Chrome. The tech giant sent a message to an...
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September is National Suicide Prevention Month and LGBTQ+ youth in Wyoming and around the country are finding it harder to receive support because of a move by the Trump administration. In July, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration removed the “press 3” option from the 988 Suicide...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Artificial turf fields have been rising in popularity as a low-maintenance (no mowing or watering) alternative to natural grass; North America has over 18,000 synthetic fields, and 1,500 are added annually. Marketed as durable and green-looking year-round, it is also becoming known for...
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Deborah Brennan CalMatters Residents around the Salton Sea have long complained of respiratory ailments from particulate pollution that wafts from its shoreline. Now UCLA researchers have identified another air pollutant that could be sickening people in communities near the inland lake: hydrogen sulfide. That’s a gas from decaying, organic...