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An inconspicuous federal document reveals the arrests are required by a formal government policy. Attorneys say it runs afoul of government rules.

Government sources and advocates for migrant children worry the administration is concentrating pregnant unaccompanied minors in Texas to restrict their access to abortion.

Government sources say that for the last six weeks, they’ve been ordered not to release undocumented children in federal custody to their parents and relatives.

The Trump administration is quietly unraveling a court settlement meant to reunite and help families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, the ACLU says, putting thousands at risk of being torn apart again.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration said it wouldn’t renew a contract with a legal services provider that helps separated families. Now it says the DOJ should provide the services. Experts and advocates say it’s a conflict of interest.

In an hour long special, The California Newsroom and the Texas Standard team up to examine how the Trump administration is changing life in two of the nation’s largest states.

The DOJ told a legal services provider it would not renew its contract at the end of April. The decision could leave families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border during Trump's first term without the support they were promised under a federal settlement agreement.

The ACLU and immigrant advocates are on alert for new actions which might undermine a 2023 settlement meant to protect immigrant families separated at the border under the first Trump presidency.

It's the eighth Olympics for Brad Jay.

Since the '90s, officials and medical experts have cautioned about the dangers of police-prone restraint. Some California police officers haven’t been getting the message.

Everyone agrees it’s time to change the Clean Air act's exceptional events rule, but has different solutions

Across the US, local governments, lobbyists and industry have spent millions to get wildfire pollution excluded from the record. People like Robert Shobe pay the price