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‘Trump’s EPA’ in 2025: A fossil fuel-friendly approach to deregulation
By MICHAEL PHILLIS, ALEXA ST. JOHN and MATTHEW DALY Updated 10:42 AM CST, December 30, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has transformed the Environmental Protection Agency in its first year, cutting federal limits on air and water pollution and promoting fossil fuels, a metamorphosis that clashes with the agency’s historic mission to protect human health and…
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…
2025 was one of three hottest years on record, scientists say
The analysis from World Weather Attribution researchers comes as once again, people around the world were slammed by the drastic, dangerous extreme weather brought on by a warming planet. By ALEXA ST. JOHN Updated 5:13 PM CST, December 29, 2025 Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on…
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…
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay
By JOHN HANNA Updated 5:51 PM CST, December 23, 2025 The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” The university said in a statement posted…
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…