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All the ways the Trump administration is going after colleges and universities

In seeking to reshape elite universities, the Trump administration is using several tactics, including freezing federal grants and contracts, and threatening colleges' tax-exempt status.

The House has passed the Trump-backed SAVE Act. Here are 8 things to know

The House has passed legislation that would make sweeping changes to voter registration, including requiring those signing up to present documents proving U.S. citizenship.

Kids play in the outdoor kitchen at Liberty Winn's childcare center in Carlsbad, May 18, 2022.

How President Trump impacts San Diegans' decisions to have babies

Two UC San Diego researchers found evidence that birth rates climbed eight years ago during Trump’s first term.

San Francisco police officers instruct an unhoused person to move personal items that are blocking the sidewalk on Cedar Street in San Francisco on Nov. 15, 2024. Unhoused people on Cedar Street are forced to move their shelters and belongings on a regular basis by San Francisco city workers.

‘Look, there’s nowhere else to go’: Inside California’s crackdown on homeless camps

Last year, California cities gained more power to ban homeless encampments. CalMatters dug into what that looks like in three cities.

Jim Irsay, longtime Colts owner and music memorabilia collector, dies at 65

Irsay started with the Colts as a teenage ball boy and took ownership after his father's death in 1997. The team won a Super Bowl and two AFC championships under his nearly three-decade tenure.

Heavy snow falls as a person walks along U.S. Route 42 in Florence, Ky., on Monday.

At least 4 people are dead as massive snowstorm creates dangerous travel conditions

Dozens of people have also been injured in a major winter storm spanning from Ohio to Washington, D.C. Up to a foot of snow is expected in some areas, and hundreds of thousands of people are without power.

In a surprise, U.S. colleges saw higher enrollment last fall

The number of students in undergraduate and graduate programs rose above pre-pandemic levels for the first time.

Products from Dr. Bronner's, a soap company that dates back 77 years, in this photo taken Jan. 31, 2025.

Family claims Dr. Bronner’s fosters a risky culture of drug use that led to employee’s accidental overdose death

A wrongful death lawsuit alleges the company fostered a risky culture of drug use among some leaders and employees, claiming they routinely use potent psychedelics as an unregulated form of “healing” and for recreational purposes.

Standing in front of the North Carolina Supreme Court in Raleigh on Jan. 14, Ted Corcoran reads a list of over 60,000 people who cast ballots in the November 2024 election but whose votes have been challenged by Republican court candidate Jefferson Griffin in his extremely close race with Democratic Justice Allison Riggs.

A Republican court candidate in North Carolina wants to toss out thousands of votes

More than 80 days after Election Day, a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court remains unresolved. That's because the Republican candidate is contesting some 65,000 ballots.

Haitians deported from the Dominican Republic get out of trucks in Carrizal, Dominican Republic, on the border with Haiti on Jan. 30.

Haitian migrants share stories of abuse as Dominican Republic ramps up deportations

The alleged human rights violations range from unauthorized home raids to racial profiling to deporting breastfeeding mothers and unaccompanied minors.

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