A GOP bill banning transgender girls from playing high school sports could cause conflicts around California even if it fails ...

UCLA and Pepperdine, both located just outside the perimeter of the Palisades fire, have moved classes online this week.

Moving bigotry to the center of his administration’s agenda, President Donald Trump will seek to deny the existence of transgender people in a stunning executive order enshrining a federal definition ...

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As Trump prepares to issue sweeping executive orders upon his inauguration, the potential end of birthright citizenship ...

Blue states are bracing for a battle with the Trump administration over their authority to limit tailpipe emissions, a ...

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Zolt chair in tax law and policy at the UCLA School of Law. Adding Benefits to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Because of the tight margins in Congress, some lawmakers may have more negotiating power to add ...

If “you constantly threaten people with the possibility of mass deportation, it really inhibits peoples’ ability to function ...

Movements for climate justice and movements for reparations for colonial harms can reinforce each other. Haiti’s climate ...

By Wendy Fry and Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters California’s southern border, long ‘ground zero’ in the fight between federal and ...