L.A.'s mayor has conviction. But at the moment, she lacks real leverage.

Six weeks after protests captured worldwide attention, California remains at the centre of Donald Trump’s efforts to deport ...

By Bill Pan Contributing Writer Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has issued an executive directive reaffirming the city’s self-proclaimed sanctuary status in response to ongoing Immigration and Customs ...

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But after the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, numerous cities were seeing far more street homelessness than ever before. With too many humanitarian crises on officials’ minds, homelessness fell on ...