Los Angeles Sparks brutally troll Sophie Cunningham over WNBA comments

Oscar Maung-Haley US Sports Reporter 07:37 ET, 06 Jul 2025Updated 07:38 ET, 06 Jul 2025 Sophie Cunningham was brutally trolled by the Los Angeles Sparks social media team after the latter beat the Indiana Fever 89-87. The Fever, who were once...

Education roundup: Plain Local Schools announces new administrators

Plain Local Schools has announced three leadership updates for the 2025-2026 school year. Cherie Phillips has been hired as an academy principal at GlenOak High School. She currently is assistant principal at Waterloo High School and Middle...

Immigration arrests in San Francisco region up 77% since Trump took office

Immigration arrests in San Francisco region up 77% since Trump took office

Since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests have shot up 77% in Northern California since the last year-plus of Joe Biden’s administration, according to recently released data from ICE. The...

Before the immigration raids, California helped ICE deport top targets

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. After launching immigration sweeps that sparked weeks of protests in Los Angeles, the Trump administration faulted California policies for protecting those they...

The San Francisco band that’s been in survival mode for 143 years

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. This is part of a series on small businesses in San Francisco. The Golden Gate Park Band, as musical director German Gonzalez puts it, has been...

Sydney Kamlager-Dove addresses immigration protection and natural disasters on social media

Sydney Kamlager-Dove U.S. House of Representatives from California's 37th district | Official U.S. House HeadshotSydney Kamlager-Dove U.S. House of Representatives from California's 37th district | Official U.S. House Headshot Congresswoman Sydney...

Family of Detained Immigrant Feels Betrayed by Trump’s Policies

Los Angeles, California – The family of Cynthia Olivera, a Canadian national, is reconsidering their support for President Donald Trump after she was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during her green card interview. Cynthia...

Schools Are Going Underground to Avoid Trump’s Immigration Dragnet

Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. This story was published in partnership between The 19th and The 74, a nonprofit, nonpartisan...

Choice tax breaks: The Republican Party’s federal plan to transform education

(Photo by Joe Kovacs) Buried in the 940-page “big, beautiful” budget blueprint is an unprecedented tax credit that, if approved, will be a long-sought victory for the private school choice movement in its drive to expand and break into Democratic...

Student Palestine Solidarity Activism Proves Hard to Squash

By the spring of 2025, many had declared the student Palestine solidarity movement dead. Since Donald Trump’s election, the crackdown had been swift and merciless: Mahmoud Khalil, who had become the face of Columbia’s Gaza solidarity encampment,...

Opinion: Immigrants crucial to US labor force. ICE targeting misguidedJoan M. Saniuk 

Joan M. Saniuk There is a fact that some may find uncomfortable. Our U.S. economy depends on the labor of immigrants, many of them undocumented. Most of them have lived here quietly for decades, settling down and raising children who are U.S....

'I can't identify with it!' Eamonn Holmes delivers brutal analysis of Meghan Markle's lifestyle show

Eamonn Holmes has delivered a brutal assessment of Meghan Markle's Netflix lifestyle programme, declaring he "cannot identify" with anything in her home. The presenter's comments come as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex face mounting speculation...

Under the Sun Interview: Vicki Handron, Attorney for the Immigrant Community

Inspired by the Citizenship Celebration put on by the nonprofit Sonoma Immigrant Services (SIS) on June 21 to honor the 90 new Sonoma Valley citizens since July 2024 who worked with SIS, the Sun’s Anna Pier talked with its remarkable and humble...

This Los Angeles Detention center could be coming to a city near you

There’s a basement about a fifteen-minute walk from where I live. It is small, cold, and perpetually lit. It can hold as many as seventy men for days at a time. The basement has one exposed toilet, with no doors, for the people it detains, which...

4 Summer Trends You'll See in Los Angeles But Not San Diego

Only 120 miles separate Los Angeles from San Diego, but the fashion divide is much wider. My credentials for making such an assertion? I was born and raised in SD, but have lived in L.A. for the past 15 years, beginning in college. In the past...

A San Francisco Treat for Trump? Scott Wiener Files for Congress

State Senator Scott Wiener, a progressive representing San Francisco who is likely too radical for most moderate Democrats, has decided to run for a seat in the US House of Representatives. This could be a gift to President Donald Trump. He was...

How local bookstores are helping immigrants amid ICE fears

With widespread fears of federal raids affecting many immigrant, working-class communities across Southern California, local and nonprofit bookstores have joined widespread efforts to provide aid to those in need. From hosting fundraisers and...

Jobs Report Casts Warning On Immigration And Labor Force Declines

Donald Trump delivers remarks on the jobs report from the White House on March 7, 2025. The latest ... More jobs report released in July warns policymakers that immigration and labor force declines threaten to harm the U.S. economy. (Photo by Anna...

Encinitas Council approves school districts’ bike education contracts, with condition

Encinitas will renew its annual funding for a bike education program that’s offered at many area schools, but the City Council wants more information about what’s being taught and how the contracts are awarded. In a 3-1 vote, with Councilmember...