Nearly two-thirds of adults oppose President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” approved in May by the House of Representatives, according to a KFF poll released Tuesday.
As the nation marks Juneteenth—commemorating June 19, 1865, when federal troops enforced the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas—Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. calls for a deeper reckoning with the global and generational impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Former California Sen. Steven Bradford (D- Inglewood) surprised some Sacramento political insiders late last Month when he withdrew his candidacy for Lieutenant Governor and announced his new campaign for State Insurance Commissioner.
Last week, when Pres. Donald Trump sent federal troops into Los Angeles and escalated ICE raids across Southern California, Assemblymember Tina McKinnor (D-Inglewood) didn’t stay silent. As chair of the Los Angeles County Legislative Delegation, she led more than 30 lawmakers in a Capitol press conference denouncing what she called “unconstitutional actions.”
New Jersey Congresswoman LaMonica McIver was indicted on the evening of June 10 on federal charges. Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced the rare indictment of a member of Congress involving DHS officials on the Elon Musk-owned platform X. The charges against Rep. McIver are related to a confrontation between ICE officials and elected officials at Delaney Hall Immigration Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey on May 9.
On June 12, California Secretary of State Dr. Shirley Weber participated in the Public Policy Institute of California’s (PPIC) 2025 Speaker Series in Sacramento, where she joined a panel of civic leaders to discuss how to build stronger civic education and engagement systems across the state.
Dozens of HIV experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received emails on Wednesday revoking notices they received 10 weeks ago that laid them off. Damage to their projects may be permanent, however, and ongoing restrictions on their research will harm lives, multiple HIV scientists at the CDC told KFF Health News on condition of anonymity because of fears of retaliation.
More than 150 years after their crania were taken from New Orleans and shipped to Germany for racist scientific experiments, 19 Black Americans were finally laid to rest.
Obesity is a structural and systemic health crisis that demands a public health response.
The Trump administration’s cancellation of $766 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against potential pandemic flu viruses is the latest blow to national defense, former health security officials said. They warned that the U.S. could be at the mercy of other countries in the next pandemic.
Esther Bejarano’s son was 11 months old when asthma landed him in the hospital. She didn’t know what had triggered his symptoms — neither she nor her husband had asthma — but she suspected it was the pesticides sprayed on the agricultural fields near her family’s home.
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“This is delicate stuff,” Judge Richard Leon said during a hearing on June 4 on the question of whether classified documents related to Dr. Martin Luther King will be made public. “We’re going to go slowly. Little steps,” Judge Leon added. Judge Leon also said the process of potentially making the King records public would be a “long journey” that would likely involve consulting the King family.
Millions would lose Medicaid coverage. Millions would be left without health insurance. Signing up for health plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces would be harder and more expensive.
Violent crime was already trending down from a covid-era spike when President Donald Trump presented a picture of unbridled crime in America on the campaign trail in 2024. Now his administration has eliminated about $500 million in grants to organizations that buttress public safety, including many working to prevent gun violence.
A sweeping rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs under the Trump administration has left Black women disproportionately affected, according to an investigation by ProPublica. The nonprofit newsroom found that the administration’s broad executive actions to dismantle DEI programs have upended the careers of many long-serving civil servants, despite their jobs having no direct connection to diversity initiatives.
The study assigned infants, most of them Black, who had been born into low-income families between 1972 and 1977, to an intervention group that received full-time, high-quality child care from infancy through age 5.
The public feud between Donald Trump and Elon Musk over the GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” has Republicans scrambling—but civil rights and other advocates warn that the drama may serve as a smokescreen, drawing attention away from harmful policies disproportionately targeting Black Americans.
Two proposed rules to eliminate the usage of gas water heaters and furnaces by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) in Southern California were rejected by the Governing Board on June 6.
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