Trump Bond Rule Leaves More People Stuck in Immigration Custody Indefinitely Many are giving up on their immigration cases because they do not want to remain detained. Capital & Main · Aug 26, 2025
Forest Service Cuts Leave Firefighters Mowing Lawns While Morale Craters Crews say layoffs and resignations have left them stuck with duties far from the fire line. Capital & Main · Aug 25, 2025
Trump’s Policies Are Adding Up to a Hostile Work Environment A flurry of actions, from mass layoffs and ICE raids to union-busting and tariffs, are straining U.S. workers and fueling uncertainty. Capital & Main · Aug 25, 2025
Trump Administration Gives Coal Plants and Chemical Facilities a Pass In Texas and across the nation, scores of coal-fired plants and petrochemical facilities are allowed to bypass toxic emission rules. Capital & Main · Aug 22, 2025
Oil and Gas Forecast for New Mexico’s San Juan Basin: Going, Going … An updated Bureau of Land Management report offers a mixed outlook for oil and gas production in the state’s second largest drilling basin. Capital & Main · Aug 22, 2025
We Know How to Reduce Poverty — So Why Aren’t We Doing It? As Congress rolls back food aid, California families are facing increasing hardship. Capital & Main · Aug 21, 2025
‘How Can They Not Feed the Kids?’ Indiana and Tennessee opted out of Summer EBT, which gives families grocery support when schools close for summer. Capital & Main · Aug 20, 2025
There’s a ‘Lake’ of Oil Under L.A.’s Soon-to-Close Refinery. Who’s Going to Clean It Up? Climate policies could lead to future refinery closures as Californians transition to electric vehicles. Capital & Main · Aug 19, 2025
Measles Is Making a Comeback — and California Isn’t Immune Vaccination gaps in 16 counties leave some communities exposed as children return to school. Capital & Main · Aug 15, 2025
Pennsylvania Nurses Get Union Election Despite Trump’s Delays at Labor Board Contentious campaign prompted local officials to collect union-busting reports. Voting starts August 19. Capital & Main · Aug 14, 2025
Federal Officers Continue Arresting Anti-ICE Protesters During 24/7 Demonstrations As Los Angeles protesters continue to organize against ICE operations, they said they are met with aggression from both DHS and L.A. police. Capital & Main · Aug 13, 2025
‘They Feel They Can Trust No One; Not Even to Open the Door’ Immigration raid fears have some undocumented patients avoiding medical care. One L.A. clinic is responding by sending mobile health teams directly to their homes. Capital & Main · Aug 13, 2025
People in ICE Custody Complain of Long Waits for Deportation Many say they are still in immigration detention facilities months after agreeing to leave the U.S. Capital & Main · Aug 12, 2025
Tracking the Chaos of Trump 2.0 Digital activists are building tools to monitor the havoc caused by Trump-era policies — from deportations to funding cuts. Capital & Main · Aug 11, 2025
Capital & Main · Aug 8, 2025 When the Flames Came for an Altadena Church A husband-and-wife ministry’s efforts to rebuild after a devastating wildfire reveal the fragile future of the area’s historically Black community.
Capital & Main · Aug 8, 2025 National Weather Service’s Plan to Hire Crucial Staffers After Mass Layoffs Will Be Too Late for Wildfire Season Key California weather forecast offices will remain
Capital & Main · Aug 7, 2025 Health Care CEO Warns of a System on the Brink Jarrod McNaughton, who leads Inland Empire Health Plan, says the math points to a crisis California’s safety net can’t sustain.
Capital & Main · Aug 6, 2025 ICE Is Pressuring People in Custody to Self-Deport. Many Are Giving Up. A promise of $1,000 and a free plane ride home tempts many who've grown weary of being locked up in crowded detention centers.
Capital & Main · Aug 4, 2025 The Oil Wells Near the Denver Suburbs Worried Her. The Health Risk Alarmed Her Even More. Recently retired Colorado scientist Lisa McKenzie chased the link between fracking and adverse birth outcomes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Capital & Main · Aug 1, 2025 Border Patrol and ICE Agents Are Arresting U.S. Citizens in Immigration Raids Capital & Main has documented nine Americans who have been held in federal custody after observing or protesting immigration raids.
Capital & Main · Aug 1, 2025 Health Care Costs Will Rise for the Californians Least Able to Afford It Gov. Gavin Newsom agreed to changes to Medi-Cal that will make treatment for migrants more expensive — and less common, raising a question: Why?
Capital & Main · Jul 31, 2025 Unplanned Parenthood and Other Horrors Confront Medi-Cal Patients Attorney General Rob Bonta has joined a national lawsuit to halt Republicans’ war on Californians.
Capital & Main · Jul 30, 2025 Private Equity in Hospice Care Spurs Workers to Strike After 29 months without a contract, a new hospice union resists the financialization of end-of-life care.
Capital & Main · Jul 29, 2025 The Reality of Trump’s ‘Beautiful Bill’: A Generation’s Worth of Damage Western Environmental Law Center attorney discusses New Mexico, the president's energy emergency and how we can emerge from the “ruins.”
Capital & Main · Jul 28, 2025 Trump Administration Moves to Cut Vital Petrochemical Watchdog, Putting Texans and Others at Risk Amid increasingly intense weather, the Chemical Safety Board is the lone independent agency watching over the Gulf Coast's petrochemical corridor.