Previewing the Alabama GOP primary
The Republican primary race to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Senate seat has become a loyalty contest in more ways than one as a major rift forms between President Donald Trump and Sessions....
View ArticleA look at the data on domestic terrorism and who’s behind it
A deadly attack in Charlottesville, Va., during a white nationalist rally and counterprotests brought attention to far-right terrorism and how it compares with radical Islamic terrorism. President...
View ArticleFact-checking Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the DACA immigration program
President Donald Trump’s administration intends to reverse a major policy that offered relief to immigrants who came to the United States as children, a group often called Dreamers. The policy, called...
View ArticleHow do standards measure up at immigration detention centers? A special report
The cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s 10-point immigration plan — "build the wall" — has earned most of the headlines. But the Trump administration is plunging forward with several other plans...
View ArticlePot 101: Facts you should know about California’s legal marijuana
Recreational marijuana sales became legal in California on Jan. 1, 2018, marking a major milestone for the state’s cannabis industry and its many customers. Proposition 64, the voter-approved law that...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s team misleads in tying international terrorism report to...
President Donald Trump claims a report on international terrorism convictions bolsters the need for changes to the U.S. immigration system. Why? Because almost three-quarters of the 549 convictions...
View ArticleHow much privacy do you have when you buy marijuana in California?
Should California’s marijuana customers be worried about the federal government charging them with a crime? That’s the provocative question a reader asked us after we published Pot 101, an article that...
View ArticleAn ICE spokesman resigned after Trump criticized the Oakland mayor....
The fallout over facts started after a California mayor gave her city a heads up about an upcoming immigration raid. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s decision elicited anger from President Donald Trump and...
View ArticleFact-checking Donald Trump’s tweets about the border, DACA
President Donald Trump followed up his Happy Easter wishes with tweets bashing Mexico and Democrats for immigration problems in the United States. Trump also backed away from efforts to find a...
View ArticleThe latest on reunification of families separated at the border, Trump...
The Trump administration’s process for reuniting immigrant families separated at the border hasn’t been easy. Pressured by a court order, officials have been working overtime to reconnect parents and...
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