U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks on immigration at the Justice Department September 5, 2017 in Washington, DC.; Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images AirTalk® President’s Obama’s five-year-old protections for those illegally brought to the US as kids is being phased out. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced two hours ago that the DACA program will wind down […]
September 5, 2017 | Posted in
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Volunteers from The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) protest with banners and placards over a freeway in Los Angeles, California on August 28, 2017.; Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images AirTalk® Today, President Donald Trump was expected to announce his decision regarding the program that would protect from children from deportation. Put in place by […]
September 1, 2017 | Posted in
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Workers toss a sign over the 110 freeway that was ruined in an early morning fire that destroyed a seven-story apartment building under construction on December 8, 2014 in Los Angeles, California.; Credit: David McNew/Getty Images AirTalk® A new survey from the Associated General Contractors of America found that 70 percent of construction firms are […]
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Los Angeles Police Department officers patrol on bicycles past a homeless man napping with cigarette in hand at his encampment on a downtown sidewalk in Los Angeles, California on June 7, 2017, a city facing a growing homeless population and less affordable housing.; Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images AirTalk® All week, KPCC is looking at […]
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A view of of the heavily damaged spillway at Lake Oroville on April 11, 2017 in Oroville, California. ; Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AirTalk® As the nation focuses on the disaster in southeast Texas, Californians are forced to consider our own water infrastructure. Levees are vulnerable for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and throughout the Central […]
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A sold sign is posted in front of a home for sale on July 30, 2013 in San Francisco, California.; Credit: Getty Images Matt Dangelantonio | AirTalk® When California’s crippling affordable housing crisis comes up, two problems that should surprise no one often emerge among the biggest hurdles to get past: funding and supply. In […]
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Antifa members and counter protesters gather at the rightwing No To Marxism rally on August 27, 2017 at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Berkeley, California.; Credit: AMY OSBORNE / Contributor AirTalk® Black-clad anarchists on Sunday stormed into what had been a largely peaceful Berkeley protest against hate and attacked at least five people, including […]
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Antifa members and counter protesters gather at the rightwing No To Marxism rally on August 27, 2017 at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Berkeley, California.; Credit: AMY OSBORNE / Contributor AirTalk® Black-clad anarchists on Sunday stormed into what had been a largely peaceful Berkeley protest against hate and attacked at least five people, including […]
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Police stand by as thousands of protesters prepare to march in Boston against a planned ‘Free Speech Rally’ just one week after the violent ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Virginia; Credit: Spencer Platt / Staff AirTalk® In the wake of Charlottesville, two controversial rallies were to be held in the Bay Area this weekend. As […]
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Fresh wild and farmed Loch Duart salmon filets are seen on a tray at the San Francisco Fish Company April 11, 2008 in San Francisco, California. ; Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images AirTalk® As reported by the Los Angeles Times, Atlantic salmon farmed around Cypress Island recently escaped faulty equipment. Now Washington state officials are calling […]
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