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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) Catholic nuns have joined forces with leading figures of the Democratic Party to call out what they see as the GOP’s abdication of their duty to the American people. “Nuns on the Bus” kicked off their “Tax Justice Truth Tour” in Ocean View Park in Santa Monica Monday, with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as a keynote speaker. The group of 30 nuns has planned to… Read more »

On the same June day that a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to begin reunifying the thousands of migrant families it had separated under its “zero tolerance” immigration policy, an internal government watchdog began quietly investigating Department of Homeland Security facilities where those migrants were being held. The 18-page report, conducted by the DHS Office of… Read more »

A senior Trump administration official has taken the unusual step of anonymously penning an essay that paints the President as a reckless and amoral madman who would have catapulted the country into a constitutional crisis many times over if it wasn’t for the gatekeeping “adults in the room.” The essay, published by The New York Times on Wednesday, describes the unnamed official as a… Read more »

A U.S. citizen detained for 40 days in Vietnam said Thursday that he doesn’t regret participating in protests that landed him behind bars in the communist country. Police in Ho Chi Minh City arrested Will Nguyen, 32, on June 10 while he took part in demonstrations against the Vietnamese government. Among the issues angering protesters were plans to establish special economic zones that… Read more »

Democrats in Congress lashed out at Amazon Thursday following a report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) that found the company’s facial recognition technology misidentified 28 members of Congress and was significantly less accurate when analyzing people of color. “Law enforcement should not use this technology until the onerous civil rights and civil liberties issues are… Read more »

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) walked away unsatisfied Wednesday from a meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen that was meant to clarify the agency's progress on reunifying families forcibly separated at the U.S. border. Nielsen's meeting with the CHC mirrored those of former Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly — now the White House chief of… Read more »

A court in communist Vietnam on Friday ordered the release and deportation of American student Will Nguyen, who was detained last month during an anti-China protest. Nguyen, a 32 year-old Houston native, was charged with “causing public disorder” at protests on June 10 in Ho Chi Minh City. The charged carried a potential penalty of up to seven years in prison, but the attorney… Read more »

William Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American citizen who was arrested by police during a demonstration in Vietnam, faces his first trial on Thursday in Hanoi. As he peacefully protested in the streets last month he was arrested on a charge of disturbing the public order. Nguyen's body flailed as he was taken into custody. On the morning of his trial, which is set to begin Thursday, nineteen… Read more »

Lawmakers representing communities of color are requesting a meeting with Amazon after a report by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed Thursday that the company's controversial facial recognition tool Rekognition falsely matched 28 members of US Congress with mugshots in its database. And on Friday, the letter was signed by 23 more members of Congress, including Virginia Rep. Tom… Read more »

Fifty-six House Democrats on Monday signed a letter demanding Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross address what they call “glaring contradictions” in his rationale for adding a controversial citizenship question to the census. Ross originally said he added the question, which will ask census-takers to list their citizenship, at the request of the Justice Department. But Ross filed a memo… Read more »