Davis has added 2,818 housing units since 2009, but the majority of new units have been multi-family rentals serving students, leaving the supply of homes for working households and families constrained and the community’s composition changing.
Artificial Intelligence is transforming American elections by lowering the cost of campaign messaging, potentially allowing insurgent or underfunded candidates to compete with well-financed incumbents, while also introducing risks such as deepfakes and anonymous disinformation.
President Trump is facing increasing pressure to end the war he and Netanyahu started, but his narcissism and lack of accountability may lead to an escalation into a world war.
Billionaires such as Rupert Murdoch, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg have consolidated their control over media outlets and algorithms, creating a system that rewards outrage and shapes perception, making your attention the commodity and your outrage the product.
The Texas Supreme Court has ordered PFLAG to turn over records to the state attorney general’s office as part of an investigation into banned medical care for transgender minors, reversing a lower court decision.
The National Fair Housing Alliance has expressed concern that two executive orders issued by the Trump administration could undermine key civil rights protections without meaningfully increasing housing supply.
FBI data shows that shoplifting “flash mob” incidents have declined due to improved crime tracking and reporting, with the majority of offenders being under 20 years old.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenging federal guidance that the state says would significantly weaken fair housing enforcement, as part of a coalition of 16 attorneys general.
Fair and Just Prosecution condemned the execution of Cedric Allen Ricks by the state of Texas, citing concerns about racial discrimination during jury selection in his capital trial.
Judge Richard E. Pacheco acknowledged the accused’s financial hardship during a court hearing and allowed the payment arrangement to remain in effect, emphasizing that the accused only has to pay as much as can be afforded.
Omar Torres, the first openly gay Latino elected to the San Jose City Council, was arrested and convicted of child sexual abuse, raising questions about the justice system’s handling of victims of child sexual abuse, as his partner Nicholas Aguilar was appointed to the Santa Clara County Child Abuse Prevention Council.
Village Farms is a good project that is ideal for development and will help address the need for housing in Davis, while also mitigating the environmental issues on the site.
The Davis City Council is considering a proposal to strengthen and codify the city’s sanctuary policies, providing clearer protections for residents and limiting city agencies’ interactions with federal immigration authorities.
The Oklahoma Survivors Act was designed to allow courts to reconsider sentences for people whose crimes were directly connected to abuse they endured, but the law’s implementation has exposed deep resistance within the system, with prosecutors arguing the law could invite exaggerated claims of abuse and open the door for sentence reductions in violent felony cases.
Male violence against women is not a biological constant, but a cultural product of entitlement, impunity, and narrative control, and the “one in three” statistic is not just a tragedy, but a business model that commodifies victim blaming.
Open Door Legal, a San Francisco nonprofit, has been accused of accepting public funds to provide legal services to vulnerable residents in Bayview-Hunters Point, but failing to provide adequate representation and closing its doors when asked to do so.
Human Rights Watch has reported that over 9,000 Salvadorans deported from the US since January 2025 have been forcibly disappeared and arbitrarily detained in El Salvador’s prison system without access to lawyers, family members or judicial review.
During a racial justice hearing in Yolo County Superior Court, a law professor testified that the prosecutor used dehumanizing and racially charged language when describing the events of an alleged gang-related killing of a man, including using animal imagery and the N-word over 100 times.
Judge Whitney L. Bokosky ruled that there was sufficient evidence to hold a man for trial on felony methamphetamine possession and related charges, after a preliminary hearing at the Westminster West Justice Center.
The accused was sentenced to 60 days in jail for possession of a controlled substance and 120 days for a probation violation, with the remaining custodial time to be served in residential drug treatment once a bed becomes available.