Raheem Hosseini

The war in Gaza has turned crowdfunding campaigns into financial lifelines and Palestinians into desperate social media promoters.

A parents rights bill geared toward immigrant families has been overtaken by a megachurch pastor’s exaggerated stranger-danger narrative.

A Columbia medical student protested the genocide in Gaza. A Project Esther-style smear campaign followed her 2,900 miles to California.

California wanted to address child trafficking. Will it instead feed President Trump’s deportation machine?

New reports say the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda is taking a toll on California, linking it to economic harm and declining school attendance across the state.

California lawmakers are attempting to claw back reforms their colleagues approved in pursuit of making racial profiling less common, police agencies more transparent and juries more representative.

California has been reducing violent encounters between residents and officers since before the racial justice protests sparked by George Floyd’s murder. It’s a trend with little fanfare.

A legal asylum seeker found work in the fields. A Fresno County sheriff labeled him a dangerous member of a “violent criminal street gang” without evidence, and the Trump administration took him...

Psychologist Malakai Coté accepted the top job at a unique and at-risk gender health nonprofit. It’s flourishing in spite of President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Is President Donald Trump’s base racist? Social scientists are beginning to weigh in

Volunteer data preservationists are racing to save decades — and petabytes — of scientific research from the Trump administration’s information purge.

Marcus Ruiz Evans wants California to secede from the United States. He’ll have to overcome political obstacles and his former best friend.

President Donald Trump’s IRS deal could neutralize California’s sanctuary protections even as he seeks to penalize the state.

It was a little-known humanitarian agency. Now, USAID is suing the Trump administration over Elon Musk’s attempt to feed it “into the wood chipper.”

Lynn Riordan found stability as a transgender woman in San Francisco. Now she’s considering giving it up to escape President Donald Trump’s anti-trans agenda.

Three years after its MAGA takeover, Shasta County is a bellwether for Donald Trump’s America, say supporters and critics

After the November election, the conservative parental rights movement to overtake local school boards is showing success in the blue state.

Resettlement agencies are pleading with the Joe Biden administration to fast-track refugee admissions before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Villainized by Donald Trump, slighted by Kamala Harris, the immigrant rights movement braces for a Republican administration — or a Democratic one

Behind the effort to deliver a critical swing state in the presidential election — and what it reveals about post-Dobbs barriers in and outside California.