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LAist’s coverage of civic life and citizen issues in Southern California. We cover elections, examine who gets listened to and why, and provide a guide for anyone who wants to more fully participate in civic life.
Huerta faces a misdemeanor charge after showing up at an immigration raid in June.
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Facing $22 million in reduced funding, L.A. County officials have decided to close parks two days per week and increase entrance fees.
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"We’re going to be imprisoned." One family’s experience in the Los Angeles ICE field office.
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The city of Paramount became a national flashpoint when immigration agents descended on a business park.
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Newsom is now questioning the president’s mental fitness and called him a “stone cold liar.”
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Thanh Huong Nguyen, 61, of Santa Ana was arraigned on three federal charges on Monday.
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The ban, which revives a controversial measure from Trump's first term, took effect Monday morning. Here's what to know about who's affected, who's exempt and how foreign leaders are responding.
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David Huerta leads a union that's a big player in the California Capitol, where it presses to raise wages for workers in many careers.
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It’s exceedingly rare for presidents to call up the National Guard in opposition to a governor’s wishes, as President Trump did in deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles.
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Orange County Superior Court Judge Cheri Pham was in line to take a top job in one of the nation’s largest court systems. Then came her husband’s corruption scandal.
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The decision comes after an LAist investigation exposed millions in unaccounted-for coronavirus relief funds Do quietly routed to a newly-created nonprofit connected to his daughter, and a federal law enforcement probe of the issue.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom and other leading California Democrats criticized President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles, calling it an unnecessary provocation.
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Undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families are learning how to assert themselves — and prepare for worst-case scenarios.
