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Trump immigration policies and a lower fertility rate slow US growth projection, budget office says
By FATIMA HUSSEIN and MIKE SCHNEIDER Updated 7:42 PM CST, January 7, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. population is projected to grow by 15 million people in 30 years, a smaller estimate than in previous years, due to President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies and an expected lower fertility rate, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The nonpartisan…
Appeals Court Blocks Ruling Bolstering Parental Rights Over Gender Identity
By Mark Walsh — January 06, 2026 A federal appeals court has blocked for the foreseeable future a groundbreaking decision by a federal district judge in California that said parents have a right to be informed by schools of any gender nonconformity and social transitions by their children. A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S.…
SF to develop 15-story affordable housing building for LGBTQ+ seniors as aging population grows
“As folks age, incomes become restricted, the cost of living rises and so the need for affordable housing becomes even greater.” By Lyanne Melendez Monday, December 29, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco is an aging city. According to the California Department of Finance, by 2030, nearly one-third of the city will be populated by…
Homeless youth say they need more from schools, social services
By: Robbie Sequeir December 25, 2025 12:01 pm Twenty-year-old Mikayla Foreman knows her experience is meaningful. Dealing with homelessness since 18 and currently living in a shelter, Foreman has managed to continue her academic journey, studying for exams this month in hopes of attaining a nursing degree. But Foreman believes there were intervention points that…
19 states and D.C. sue HHS over effort to ban transgender care for minors
Updated on: December 24, 2025 / 12:04 AM EST A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and its inspector general over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people. The declaration issued last…
Under Trump, Northwest immigration detainees are traveling farther from families, legal help
The Trump administration has sent five times more people at least 1,000 miles compared to the last year of former President Joe Biden’s term. Troy Brynelson/OPB December 23, 2025 / 2:13 pm Carmen Paniagua’s phone had sat silent all day, and she began to worry. It was early December, and her brother-in-law was supposed to call.…
EPA, state lawmakers could consider regulating abortion pills as pollutants in 2026
By: Sofia Resnick December 19, 2025 2:38 pm Going into the fourth year without federal abortion rights protections, groups that helped overturn Roe v. Wade are focused on cutting off access to abortion pills. As multiple lawsuits over the abortion drug mifepristone unfold, state and federal proposals to regulate and restrict medication abortion are expected to continue in 2026.…
Officials Target Youth Immigration Program, Speeding Up Deportations
The Trump administration is dissolving long-established protections meant to help undocumented children stay in the country. By Ana Ley Published Dec. 14, 2025 On a crisp November morning in White Plains, N.Y., six lawyers spent hours in a federal courtroom arguing about the government’s plan to deport a teenager from the Bronx. Agents had detained the…
Lindsey Graham Abandons the Dream Act
The Republican senator told NOTUS the U.S. must first “deal with the millions of people here illegally.” By Manuela Silva December 12, 2025 03:03 PM Ahead of his reelection bid next year, Sen. Lindsey Graham dropped his support for the Dream Act, a bill to help undocumented immigrants that he co-sponsored each time it was introduced for…