LAPD Arrest of Journalist at ICE Raid Fuels Press Freedom Fears Anthony Orendorff was jailed for four days without bail before charges were dropped. Capital & Main · Jun 27, 2025
Trump’s ‘Trans Mice’ Line Got Laughs. The Science Behind It Could Save Lives. Research on HIV, cancer and infertility is being quietly dismantled under Trump’s anti-DEI agenda. Capital & Main · Jun 27, 2025
A Fear Pandemic Grips Safety Net Hospitals and Their Patients With immigration raids on the rise, many in need of health care are choosing to remain at home. Capital & Main · Jun 26, 2025
Here’s What’s Happening to the People ICE Arrests in Immigration Court Many are fighting to keep their court cases open so that they can still request asylum. Capital & Main · Jun 24, 2025
Sanewashing the President Since his return, newsrooms have downplayed Trump’s decline, helping normalize a presidency defined by incoherence, paranoia, and cruelty. Capital & Main · Jun 23, 2025
Nurses Run Up Against Labor Board Stalled By Trump Pennsylvania's largest hospital joins rise in employers citing federal changes to fight unionization. Capital & Main · Jun 23, 2025
The Crackdown on L.A. Protests is Costing the City Millions. LAPD’s response to anti-ICE protests, which has already resulted in litigation, is putting additional stress on the city’s budget. Capital & Main · Jun 19, 2025
Uncertain Harvest: Agriculture’s Season of Gloom While Trump considers expelling undocumented farm workers, California’s economy hangs in the balance. Capital & Main · Jun 19, 2025
Can Gov. Gavin Newsom Make Californians Healthier? Advocates worry that soft drinks, candy and other ultra-processed foods bought with government funds via EBT cards may be in his sights. Capital & Main · Jun 18, 2025
A Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes on DOGE to Protect Miners’ Health Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get layoff notices. Capital & Main · Jun 17, 2025
Immigration Raids Disrupt Businesses in Southern California and Beyond Graduation parties, medical appointments, playing outside are all too risky. “I’m scared to death to leave my house.” Capital & Main · Jun 16, 2025
Attacks on Immigrants Put Erie’s Revival in Danger The once-declining Rust Belt city of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been bouncing back, partly thanks to immigration. The Trump administration’s policies threaten that growth. Capital & Main · Jun 13, 2025
‘Patients Will Suffer. Patients Will Die.’ Why California’s Rural Hospitals Are Flatlining. Will Sacramento’s budget shortfall turn off the lights of community health care centers? Capital & Main · Jun 12, 2025
New Mexico’s Governor Declares Drought Emergency. Sort Of. A warming climate — fueled in part by the state’s oil and gas production — has parched rivers and turned forests to tinder. Capital & Main · Jun 11, 2025
Capital & Main · Jun 11, 2025 Police Violently Crack Down on L.A. Protests Demonstrators, journalists and bystanders faced LAPD tear gas and projectiles following ICE raids.
Capital & Main · Jun 10, 2025 Detained Man Says ICE Isn’t Treating His Colon Cancer The Guatemalan man told officials that he had colon cancer when he first arrived at Otay Mesa Detention Center, according to his medical records.
Capital & Main · Jun 6, 2025 Pennsylvania Has Failed Environmental Justice Communities for Years. A New Bill Could Change That. A waste incinerator, a paper plant and a sewage treatment facility all jammed in a town of 35,000. “Our children literally cannot breathe.”
Capital & Main · Jun 6, 2025 Before Attacking Each Other, Musk and Trump Struck Blows Against Veterans, Children, the Hungry and the Sick The president and his former ally were united long enough to hurt millions of people here and abroad.
Capital & Main · Jun 6, 2025 Trump Won Big in Kentucky. Medicaid Cuts Could Hit It Hard. The state’s deep reliance on the program means proposed rollbacks would have an outsized impact.
Capital & Main · Jun 5, 2025 Budget Cuts Threaten In-Home Assistance Workers and Medi-Cal Recipients Will California gut a medical aid program created in an age of compassionate care?
Capital & Main · Jun 4, 2025 Grace Under Fire: Transgender Student Athlete AB Hernandez’s Winning Weekend Anticipated far-right protest sputters at California high school track and field meet.
Capital & Main · Jun 3, 2025 In Georgia, Trump Is Upending Successful Pro-Worker Reforms A Fort Valley school bus company shows what workers and companies are losing.
Capital & Main · May 30, 2025 Drawing the Line Where It Matters While one student risks his future to challenge Trump, a columnist takes a stand for his Tesla.
Capital & Main · May 30, 2025 Ambulance Chaser: Can Gov. Newsom Siphon Off Medi-Cal Funding to Balance Budget? Proposition 35 was meant to attract doctors to care for low-income Californians. Instead, it’s looking like a cash cow for Sacramento.
Capital & Main · May 29, 2025 Santa Monica Airport Closure Spurs Push for Housing A campaign to build housing on the site of the soon-to-be-shuttered airport is drawing pushback from opponents of new development.