14+ hour, 59+ min ago   (1050+ words) SAN DIEGO, Calif. — After years of litigation and advocacy, tenant organizers and Housing Choice Voucher recipients have secured two significant legal victories against the San Diego Housing Commission, forcing the agency to bring its rent increase policies into compliance with…...

15+ hour, 7+ min ago   (1182+ words) WASHINGTON — One year after President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness took effect, homelessness advocates say the administration has fundamentally reshaped federal policy in ways they argue are worsening the nation’s housing crisis, shifting resources away from evidence-based approaches while…...

15+ hour, 14+ min ago   (666+ words) The mind, as the word is usually used, means the movement of thought in the brain. But there is another meaning to the word mind — a quality of awareness and attention that transcends the mind-as-thought. Can mind in this sense…...

15+ hour, 27+ min ago   (497+ words) According to a California DOJ report, the confrontation began Dec. 1, 2024, in downtown Santa Ana after local authorities received emergency calls about a man allegedly holding a shotgun in a public area. After locating the individual, later identified as Noe Rodriguez…...

15+ hour, 22+ min ago   (720+ words) ANAHEIM, Calif. — More than 2,500 people gathered Saturday at the Voices for Human Rights and Religious Freedom Conference to call for the release of Shincheonji Chairman Lee Man-hee, 95, arguing that his continued pretrial detention on a nonviolent charge raises broader concerns…...

15+ hour, 31+ min ago   (360+ words) By Janai Jones, Sophie Lem, Robert Mell, Mariana Ortiz and Annania Sarik SAN FRANCISCO — Testimony in an ongoing jury trial raised questions about whether narcotics found on the accused supported a possession-for-sale charge after a San Francisco police officer acknowledged…...

15+ hour, 44+ min ago   (498+ words) BOSTON — A coalition of voting rights organizations has renewed its request for a preliminary injunction to block implementation of portions of President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, arguing the measure is unconstitutional, unlawful and threatens to disenfranchise voters…...

15+ hour, 48+ min ago   (283+ words) SAN FRANCISCO — Despite the supervising electronic monitoring program’s approval for a family gathering, a San Francisco Superior Court judge declined Tuesday to allow the accused to leave home detention for a few hours to celebrate his birthday, instead postponing the…...

15+ hour, 40+ min ago   (310+ words) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Cato Institute and the Law Enforcement Action Partnership have filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to quickly review a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision granting qualified immunity to law enforcement officials in Louisiana, arguing…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1486+ words) FAIRFIELD, Calif. — When a Fairfield school district fired veteran math teacher Jason Agan after an independent panel concluded he had sexually harassed female students, administrators believed they had protected students and permanently removed him from the classroom. Instead, California suspended…...