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Nearly 250 people line up in front of the Salvation Army in El Cajon to receive groceries during a Jacobs & Cushman Food Bank distribution event, May 15, 2019.

Calfresh Food Aid To Be Extended To Some Disabled Adults

CalFresh food assistance will be expanded in June to 95,000 people in San Diego County who are on Supplemental Security Income, but thousands of others who already receive the monthly benefit could see cuts.

Pastor Earnie Lucas of Friendship Baptist Church in Appomattox, Va., posted this message on his church sign around the same time that President Trump tweeted that four Democratic members of Congress — all women of color — should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came."

In Virginia, 2 Churches Feel The Aftermath Of Trump's Racist Rhetoric

Two small-town Virginia churches with the same name, but very different congregations, recently found themselves tangled in controversy related to the president's tweets.

San Diego Researchers Measure The Highest Ocean Surface Temperature In A Century

The water, collected by scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, measured 78.6 degrees Fahrenheit. "It really is weird," a research scientist said. It all started with the blob.

The U.S. released journalist Emilio Gutierrez and his son on Thursday, after the second months-long detention. Seen here in 2011, Gutierrez has been seeking asylum in the U.S. since fleeing Mexico's drug violence in 2008.

U.S. Releases Mexican Journalist After A 2nd 7-Month Detention

ICE agents arrested Emilio Gutierrez Soto last December — two months after the National Press Club recognized him with its Press Freedom Award.

President Trump participates in a roundtable on immigration and border security at the U.S. Border Patrol Calexico Station in Calexico, Calif., on April 5.

Despite Pressure From Trump, House Democrats See No Urgency To Pass A Border Bill

President Trump has called on Congress to return early from its recess to pass a bill addressing the surge in illegal border crossings. But Democrats say Trump's demands are a nonstarter.

President Trump has denied that 17 spies recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency have been captured in Iran.

Trump Denies Iran Has Captured 17 CIA Spies

A senior Iranian intelligence officer says Iran has detained CIA-trained spies who were attempting to gather information on the country's military and nuclear capabilities.

A Customs and Border Control agent patrolling on the US side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along the Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz., March 2, 2019.

Mexico Vows To Send National Guard Troops To US-Mexico Border Including Tijuana, But Details Unclear

It remained unclear Saturday whether Mexico would make good on a high-ranking official's prediction that the nation would send roughly 15,000 newly formed National Guard troops to the entirety of the U.S.-Mexico border this weekend to prevent migrants and asylum seekers from entering the United States.

In this Oct. 15, 2018 photo, Darling Perez shows a copy of a Nicaraguan government wanted poster in which she is listed, during an interview in Miami. Perez, a pediatrician, worked at a public hospital in Nicaragua and was told not to take care of patients who were hurt during protests. She refused and began helping wounded students at private clinics. Perez, her husband and 12-month-old baby, all of whom arrived in the U.S. on tourist visas, are now seeking asylum in the U.S.

With Unrest At Home, Some Nicaraguans Flee To The US

Physicians, taxi drivers and other Nicaraguans are increasingly applying for asylum or at least temporary protection, saying they fear they will be persecuted if forced to return home.

Yo-Yo Ma brought his Bach Project to the sister cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The project uses the music of Johann Sebastian Bach to explore connections between cultures.

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach In Shadow Of Border Crossing

The world-renowned cellist brought his Bach Project to the sister cities of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, on Saturday.

Mateo Fuentes laughs under the watch of his mother in Los Angeles, Feb. 14, 2018.

Asylum-Seeking Mother Reunited With Her Baby After US Kept Them Apart For Weeks

Olivia Caceres, an asylum seeker from El Salvador, has been reunited with her 1-year-old son, Mateo, after months of back-and-forth with The Office of Refugee Resettlement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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