19+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1643+ words) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As California struggles with homelessness, overdose deaths and a shortage of behavioral health treatment capacity, a statewide association representing substance use disorder providers is warning cities that neighborhood opposition to treatment facilities can do more than block desperately…...

20+ hour, 17+ min ago   (666+ words) In 1963, an economist named Mollie Orshansky sat down with one number. The cost of a bare minimum food budget for a family. She multiplied it by three, because back then, food ate up roughly a third of what a family…...

20+ hour, 3+ min ago   (1312+ words) The U.S. Department of Justice has found that California’s two women’s prisons have systematically failed to protect incarcerated people from sexual abuse and harassment by staff, violating their constitutional rights and prompting survivor advocates to demand both sweeping reforms and the…...

20+ hour, 10+ min ago   (450+ words) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Farmworkers, advocates and coalition members of Californians for Pesticide Reform rallied at the California State Capitol on Tuesday, demanding that the California Department of Pesticide Regulation enforce pesticide laws to protect agricultural communities from toxic exposure, according to…...

20+ hour, 19+ min ago   (948+ words) The first evidence of art has been found in seaside caves in southern Africa. Paleo-anthropologists have uncovered artifacts with geometric designs, as well as ochre for skin pigmentation, dating back to about 100,000 years ago. Around that time and place a…...

20+ hour, 9+ min ago   (724+ words) More than 80 people worked on the report, finding countless data points and relying on street-level experience from around the world. What they found is astounding, and the pathways they offer are thorough, logical, and non-ideological. In other words, the report…...

20+ hour, 31+ min ago   (681+ words) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and members of his administration have threatened arrests and prosecution against officials who resist carrying out the administration’s agenda, with those threats recently shifting toward immigration enforcement and election security, according to Austin Sarat, a professor…...

20+ hour, 44+ min ago   (571+ words) ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama executed 41-year-old Jeremy Williams by lethal injection Aug. 13 after he pleaded guilty to four counts of capital murder, sought the death penalty and declined to pursue legal avenues that could have challenged his conviction and sentence, according…...

20+ hour, 51+ min ago   (591+ words) OKLAHOMA CITY — Friends and family of recently executed Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez remembered a life they said contained “beauty and tenderness within the darkest of conditions,” offering a portrait of a man they said had changed during his decades on Oklahoma’s death…...

20+ hour, 56+ min ago   (711+ words) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two key public defense reform bills, AB 690 and AB 2605, advanced out of the California Senate Appropriations Committee, moving legislation aimed at reforming flat-fee defense contracts and increasing oversight of public defense systems to the Senate floor. The Fair…...