[ad_1] California Governor Gavin Newsom has threatened local county governments with funding cuts if they don’t do enough to get people off the street. He recently passed an executive order encouraging local governments to remove homeless encampments. PIEN HUANG, HOST: Two weeks ago, California Governor Gavin Newsom put out an executive order. He urged cities […]

[ad_1] Then-Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., joins a 2018 U.S. Capitol protest against threats by then-President Donald Trump against Central American asylum-seekers to separate children from their parents along the southwest border to deter migrants from crossing into the United States. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP SAN FRANCISCO — With the […]

[ad_1] John Kerry (center) stands with other military personnel in an unspecified location circa the 1960s. The details of Kerry’s service during the Vietnam War, and his subsequent anti-war activism, became the focus of a veterans’ group’s smear campaign against him during his 2004 presidential campaign. Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption […]

[ad_1] This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Capitol News Illinois. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Reporting Highlights Stores Don’t Survive: The government puts millions of dollars into opening groceries in food deserts. Many struggle to make it. Illinois’ […]

[ad_1] ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. A development company abruptly halted plans for a sprawling grain export facility in Louisiana this week after a three-year campaign led by members […]

[ad_1] Vice President Harris speaks to members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center on July 10 in Dallas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images For more on the 2024 race head to the NPR Network’s live updates page. The Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. has […]

[ad_1] The logo of Smartmatic, the firm that supplies Venezuela’s voting technology, seen on a sliding door at the headquarters of the company in Caracas, on August 2, 2017. RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption toggle caption RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images/AFP The president and two executives of the voting machine company Smartmatic are […]

[ad_1] This article was produced by The Salt Lake Tribune, which was a member of ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in 2023. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Sexual assault is not health care, and it isn’t covered by Utah’s medical malpractice law, the state’s Supreme […]

[ad_1] TV image of President Richard Nixon announcing his decision to resign. Tom Middlemiss/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tom Middlemiss/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images It was no longer a surprise, but it was still a shock. On a Thursday night in August 50 years ago, Americans turned […]

[ad_1] Who might play the VP candidates on SNL? A few ideas: Jim Gaffigan (clockwise from left), Melissa McCarthy, Will Ferrell, Jason Sudeikis, Zach Galifianakis and Jon Hamm. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for IMDb; Jeff Spicer/Getty Images; Lia Toby/Getty Images for Warner Bros.; Christopher Polk/Getty Images; Monica Schipper/Getty Images for IMDb; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW […]