Defying Trump Administration, Calif. Offers Federal Workers Unemployment Benefits
California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the Department of Labor’s guidance that states not allow furloughed workers to collect unemployment “jaw-dropping.”
It’s Getting Harder For Migrants To Win Asylum Cases, Lawyers Say
Immigration lawyers say judges are rejecting more claims based on domestic abuse and gang violence. We have the story of one woman who fled Nicaragua with her infant son.
Police In Kutztown, Pa., Find Volunteers Willing To Drink To Excess
The department, looking for training help, posted the Facebook request on Wednesday and was flooded with volunteers. On Thursday, a department comment read, “At this point we have enough volunteers.”
Former Chicago Cop Jason Van Dyke To Be Sentenced For Laquan McDonald Murder
The 2014 shooting was captured on an infamous video that showed McDonald, who was carrying a knife with a three-inch blade, walking away from Van Dyke just before the officer shot him 16 times.
How The Government Shutdown Is Affecting Weather Forecasts
The National Weather Service is still putting out weather forecasts, but employees are doing it without pay. And, weather forecasting equipment is not being maintained.
Attempts To Make Shutdown ‘Painless’ May Stretch Limits Of Federal Law
The Trump administration is trying to minimize the impact of the government shutdown by bringing furloughed workers back to work without pay. Critics say this may run afoul of the law.
With Higher Stakes In The Abortion Debate, Activists March On Washington
Anti-abortion rights activists gather once again for the March for Life in Washington, D.C., Friday. This year, they are fresh off the swearing in of conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Federal Shutdown Has Meant Steep Health Bills For Some Families
An air traffic controller is just one employee locked into the terms of a health plan because of the ongoing federal shutdown. It’s meant his child’s hospital bills are “out-of-network.”
‘I Gave Up Hope’: As Girls, They Were Jailed In Squalor For Protesting Segregation
In 1963, more than a dozen girls were jailed for about two months in an old, squalid stockade in Georgia for protesting segregation. At StoryCorps, some of them talk about the experience.
Microsoft Pledges $500 Million Investment To Tackle Affordable Housing Crisis
Most of the money will help preserve and build new homes for low and middle-income residents. A smaller portion will go toward homeless services and programs to keep people from being evicted.
Trump Administration Appeals Ruling Blocking Citizenship Question On 2020 Census
The Trump administration is asking the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the first major court ruling over plans to add a question about U.S. citizenship status to the 2020 census.
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