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A president with strong Christian support is driving an aggressive crackdown on immigrants who are disproportionately Catholic. How is this playing out in the pews?

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‘The Poor Are in a Very Bad State’: Climate Change Accelerates California’s Cost-of-Living Crisis

In ways subtle and extreme, the warming climate is hitting those with the least the hardest.

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Beyond Hollywood, Rob Reiner Created Opportunity for Young Children Out of a Massive Health Crisis

The actor-director-producer’s legacy includes succeeding in passing a tax on tobacco products to bolster early childhood development in California.

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Credit History Remains an Obstacle for Section 8 Tenants, Despite Anti-Discrimination Law

California prohibits the use of credit history to reject applicants with housing assistance without considering pay stubs and other alternatives. Big landlords keep doing it anyway.

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‘There’s Power in Numbers’

In October, Michigan home care workers formed a statewide union of 32,000. Experts say it’s a template for protecting rights in 2026.

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This Big L.A. Landlord Turned Away People Seeking Section 8 Housing

Apartment hunters with rental assistance were not welcome at many Jamison buildings, in apparent violation of California law, a Capital & Main investigation found.

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How Some of L.A.’s Biggest Apartment Owners Avoid Section 8 Tenants

Capital & Main investigated seven of the city’s largest rental property owners and found most skirted anti-discrimination laws. Here’s how each landlord fared.

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They Power the U.S. Economy, But Will Struggle to Afford Health Care

Health insurance costs will skyrocket for millions of Americans if certain tax credits expire. Small business owners and the self-employed will be hit especially hard.

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A Little Place Called Home?

San Jose is delivering low-cost tiny homes for people living on the streets of California’s third-largest city — as long as the state continues to fund it.

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Capital & Main, L.A. Times Win Sidney Award for Reporting on Child Farmworkers

A two-part series investigating California’s failure to protect underage farmworkers won the December Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman Foundation.

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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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