Can reparations improve the health of Black Americans?
When a Black baby is born in the United States, their fight to live a healthy life begins. Compared to the white baby in the delivery room next door, they’re more likely to be impoverished as children and chronically ill as adults.
FBI wrongly searched for US senator and state senator in Section 702 spy data, court says
FBI employees wrongly searched foreign surveillance data for the last names of a U.S. senator and a state senator, according to a court opinion released Friday. The disclosure could further complicate Biden administration efforts to renew a major spy program that already faces bipartisan opposition in Congress.
Solar panels on water canals seem like a no-brainer. So why aren’t they widespread?
Back in 2015, California’s dry earth was crunching under a fourth year of drought. Then-Governor Jerry Brown ordered an unprecedented 25% reduction in home water use. Farmers, who use the most water, volunteered too to avoid deeper, mandatory cuts.
U.S. will remediate lands damaged by border wall construction
Lands where the border wall was constructed during the Trump Administration will be restored to protect wildlife habitat following a legal settlement between the U.S. government and attorneys general for 18 states.
California politicians spiral over sex trafficking bill: ‘Pick pedophiles or children’
The California state Legislature twisted itself into an extra-salty pretzel this week over a bill that claims to combat child sex trafficking. On Tuesday, Democratic members of the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee initially shelved Senate Bill 14, the child sex trafficking bill in question, which was written and proposed by one of the state Senate’s most conservative members.
