What the Heck Is Wrong With Mike Huckabee?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What, exactly, is wrong with Mike Huckabee? That’s what a lot of observers are asking after the former Arkansas governor and Christian minister tweeted out a photo this morning of what appears to be a group of Latino gang members, and joked that House Minority…
The Homeless in Los Angeles
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you take a look at Google Maps, you can find skid row in Los Angeles pretty easily. It’s just east of downtown and less than a mile south of City Hall—and it’s labeled “Skid Row.” That surprises me a little, since this is hardly…
A Big Drilling Company Was Ready to Set up a Mine in This Arizona Town. Then an Endangered Owl Showed Up.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last October, two field researchers were surveying waterways in southern Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains, when one of them glanced into a tree and said, “Uh-oh.” They saw a Mexican spotted owl,…
“He Only Cries”: The Heartbreaking Testimonies of Immigrant Parents Separated From Their Children
Children listen to speakers during a family separation protest June 18 in Phoenix.Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. New documents filed in a federal court Friday reveal the heartbreaking toll that President Donald Trump’s family separation policy has taken on the thousands of migrant parents whose children have…
Using 23andMe to Reunite Families at the Border Comes With Serious Privacy Risks
David Bro/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced an end to administration’s policy of separating families at the border. But the administration hasn’t figured out how to reunite the parents and children that have already been split apart. A day after Trump’s announcement, Rep.…
The Trump Administration Still Doesn’t Have a Coherent Plan to Reunite the Families It Separated
Children protest the Trump administration’s family separation policy in New York.G. Ronald Lopez/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday morning, for the first time in nearly a month, there were no parents at the McAllen, Texas, courthouse who had been separated from their children. Standing outside the court, Efrén Olivares,…