Fighting California’s fires requires carceral reform and a just transition
by Ray Levy Uyeda This article was originally published at Prism Fall is a tough season for Da’Ton Harris, a wildland firefighter who spends multiple weeks at a time attempting to tamp down fires without hoses. Harris and his...
Read MoreBill Plante, 1938-2022
Image dated April 24, 1989. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) CBS News, “Bill Plante, legendary CBS News White House correspondent, has died at 84“ William “Bill” Plante, one of the longest-serving White House broadcast...
Read MoreTerrifying Russian Bat Virus Could Spark the Next Pandemic
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/GettyThe COVID-19 pandemic isn’t over. In fact, it shows signs of lingering for, well, a long time.But even as politicians and health authorities struggle with how, if at...
Read MoreBad Bunny, king of the music world, wears the crown lightly at SoFi Stadium
Puerto Rican superstar’s 2 1/2-hour set ranged from good-times island vibes to a critique of colonialism Click here to see original...
Read MoreLil Nas X Pauses Concert Due To Pooping: ‘This Is Not A Part Of The Show’
The rapper was hilariously candid with fans.
Read MoreEven a pandemic didn’t get paid sick days for most low-wage workers, this week in the war on workers
More than two years into the pandemic (still not over, President Biden!), there have been nearly 100 million cases of COVID-19 in the United States. In the early part of the pandemic, some workers benefited from a first-ever...
Read More‘Woman, life, freedom’: L.A. protest over Iran draws thousands
“Woman, life, freedom.” L.A. protest for Iran draws thousands Click here to see original...
Read MoreVenezuela Releases 7 Jailed Americans As US Releases 2 Prisoners
The group includes five oil executives who have been held for nearly five years.
Read MoreNational Archives says it’s still missing records from Trump officials
The National Archives will consult with the Justice Department “on whether ‘to initiate an action for the recovery of records unlawfully removed,’” according to a Click here to see original...
Read MoreNearly Half Of The World’s Bird Species Are In Decline: Report
“Birds tell us about the health of our natural environment — we ignore their messages at our peril.”
Read MoreHow immigration advocates are challenging discriminatory utility policies in the South
by Tina Vásquez and Makaelah Walters This article was originally published at Prism This article was published in collaboration with Facing South There are certain memories seared into Salvador’s brain, scenes of what it was...
Read MoreHurricane Ian Shows Risks Of Living On Barrier Islands
Building back may be prohibitively expensive as climate change threatens to unleash increasingly severe storms on coastal communities.
Read MoreVenezuela Exchanges 7 Americans for U.S. Release of President Nicholas Maduro’s Nephews in Law
APSeven Americans detained on Venezuelan soil were freed Saturday in exchange for two nephews of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro’s wife, who will be returning home after spending roughly seven years imprisoned in the U.S....
Read MoreIranian American held in Tehran for seven years granted temporary release
Siamak Namazi, convicted along with father on espionage charges, freed from Evin prison on one-week renewable furloughAn Iranian American businessman who has been imprisoned in Iran for nearly seven years has been released from...
Read MoreBiden admin faces pressure from U.N. human rights experts to end ICE’s harmful 287(g) policy
The racist 287(g) agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and local law enforcement agencies have frequently been criticized by advocates and lawmakers alike. These are the deeply flawed agreements that...
Read MoreOath Keepers Charged with Seditious Conspiracy to Use Dangerous Defense
The defendants’ plan is to put Trump front and center in a bizarre and highly dangerous (to Trump and Oath Keepers) defense.
Read MoreMadame Wu, famed Westside restaurateur who served the stars, dies at 106
Sylvia Wu, restaurateur who served L.A.’s stars from Frank Sinatra to Robert Redford at her famed Madame Wu’s Garden, dies. Click here to see original...
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