WASHINGTON—In a comment filed Friday, the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) and The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights led a 27-organization coalition in urging the Federal Trade Comm...

The Riders case exposed brutal beatings and corruption. After many setbacks and new scandals, a federal judge ruled the city can finally take back full control of OPD.

The unorthodox development isn’t that politicians caved; it’s that people noticed it. Plus, bond yields go nuts, and Trump and Xi meet to hash out China-U.S. relations.

Serious health and safety violations are penalized differently across counties, and regulatory actions are enforced inconsistently.

WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - FBI personnel data recently stolen by the ShinyHunters hackers includes sensitive psychiatric and medical evaluation records, according to the hackers and documents rev...

OpenAI announced it has halted development of its latest artificial intelligence models hours after it disclosed its agents scouring federal government website acted in unexpected ways that suggest a ...

AN MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW INVESTIGATION Dying on Camera The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will ...

In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.

California is about to accept $1.4 billion in federal broadband funding. But it must give up net neutrality and other internet rules.

California is crafting weaker heat protections for prisons than for other workplaces, citing billions in costs to cool aging institutions as climate and health risks increase.

The Seattle City Council voted Tuesday to limit how companies use personal data to set prices in grocery stores. The move will prohibit large grocery stores from using algorithmic pricing for individu...

I’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection paused plans for a maritime surveillance tower in San Clemente. Some elected officials want to see it permanently scrapped.

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, in a reversal, will no longer allow auto insurers to consider marital status in setting premiums, a policy that has resulted in unmarried drivers paying...

The Chico Police Department lost access to data produced by its automated license plate reading cameras when it turned off sharing with federal and out-of-state agencies, ChicoSol has learned. Chico P...

The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector ...

California’s public record laws are focused on a basic principle: a lack of transparency hurts the public interest and leads to abuses of power.

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California and a coalition of states want to stop the Trump administration from obtaining personal information of millions of drivers.

Exclusive: Internal FBI memo, reviewed by the Guardian, said women wanted to dox and ‘embarrass’ agents, but provided few details

Newly unsealed court documents showed concern within Microsoft and OpenAI over the use of millions of news articles to develop A.I. systems.

Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.

CalMatters has found that the nine K-12 school districts in California that own military-grade weapons have not been reporting them annually.

From the scapegoating of communities to widespread detention, some Japanese Americans fear that the U.S. is repeating past mistakes.

Silicon Valley says its machines could destroy humanity. The more immediate danger is letting the people building AI decide how they’re governed.

Three separate Atlas explosions and cancer risks the LA County DA’s office calls 48-times above health standards threaten the Watts school.

A federal judge ruled that agents likely violated the law in conducting warrantless arrests without assessing flight risk.

In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the...

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

Organizers are hard at work to convince officials to roll back an agreement with a private prison operator.

If built, the Gilroy Holding Facility would allow for the detention of at least 120 people per day, ICE wrote in court filings.

Despite threats from the wealthy elite, new IRS data proves that higher taxes on the rich do not drive them away from New York City. The myth of tax flight is debunked.

Nearly half of Americans say they have “nothing to hide” online. But ask them to unlock their phones for a stranger, and that confidence disappears. This

The men allegedly schemed to lie about having taken mandated test flights in order to obtain FAA certifications, lied about having taken test flights at the Oakland airport and filled out forms with f...

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

A controversial federal surveillance tower planned for a hilltop in San Clemente has been placed on hold indefinitely, according to Rep. Mike Levin, months after the City Council approved an

Gov. Newsom vetoed SB 1047 and signed a narrower AI safety law. It didn’t cover the OpenAI hack — and Scott Wiener says that was a mistake.

AT&T and Verizon (and now the newly purchased Frontier) have continued with their big push to shut down copper networks. There are good reasons to finally walk away from this obsolete technolog…

The policy brings the county in line with other Bay Area jurisdictions seeking to defend against widespread deportation enforcement.

The bill would establish the nation’s largest investment in community news, expanding reporting capacity and coverage across California.

Search our new database to see which ones are spraying glyphosate near you.

Australian social media users would be given a choice to opt out of algorithms under proposed laws announced by the government.

ICE said last month in a court filing that the facility just east of Highway 101 could hold about 10 detainees at a time, but acknowledged the number could be higher.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) unveiled a bill Thursday aimed at restricting the use of federal funds for automated license plate reader cameras (ALPRs) and biometric surveillance cameras. The Flock-Of…

Local government transparency in San Francisco is under attack from within. Please tell city officials to turn the lights back on at City Hall and support transparency.

Open AI's CEO claims data center water concerns don’t hold “up to scrutiny.” Artificial intelligence companies are fighting legislation to disclose water use.