Advocates see these laws as a critical shield for immigrant communities, but Trump’s team is devising ways to bypass them.

The U.S. prison population has grown more than 700 percent between 1970 and 2009. We’re locking people up left and right, including thousands of non-violent ...

Photojournalist Ted Soqui’s visual recap of the year in Los Angeles.

A new law is meant to help local governments speed up the building and placement of small, portable houses. California’s ...

Joanne Erickson’s story shows the looming challenges for millions of seniors struggling with health issues, an unforgiving ...

With time running out, the administration is scrambling to secure its legacy ahead of an incoming president who has vowed to ...

Servers say the chain forces them to do janitorial work, dishwashing for lower tipped wages and robs them of up to $46.8 million. Melissa “Kat” Steach, a Waffle House server in Marietta, Georgia, ...

Incoming Attorney General Dave Sunday didn’t mention climate change on the campaign trail, but fossil fuel donations tell a different story. As President-elect Donald Trump takes direct aim at federal ...