The nonprofit Regional Plan Association, long considered a reliable, independent and objective voice — has taken upwards of a million dollars in federal tax money from Amtrak to promote the railway’s Gateway project $50 billion boondoggle, casting anything the group has to say about the future of Penn Station and Gateway in doubt.

An investigation is underway after three people were found dead in a Rolling Hills home in an apparent murder-suicide Saturday. Los Angeles County deputies responded to a home on the 100 block of Crest Road East shortly before 10:30 p.m. A woman had called authorities after discovering her sister and father dead. After deputies arrived […]

Deep in the Everglades, in a patch of swamp surrounded by snakes, alligators and relentless mosquitos, Florida has opened a makeshift detention center that critics say is unlike anything the country has seen before. Detainees there are being held out of view of the federal system, cut off from lawyers and families, and in conditions […]

In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. A few years later, during an interview with a documentary filmmaker, Leavitt, a wealthy Utah politician, told a startling story about how he went about getting physical custody of that child.  Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple […]

During my time as head of hazmat operations for the New York City Fire Department, I learned that New Yorkers expect one thing above all else: to know their safety is never compromised. That principle guided every decision I made at the FDNY, and it should continue to guide how we evaluate new technologies today.

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was the executive director of an immigrant-serving nonprofit — New Immigrant Community Empowerment also known as NICE, in Jackson Heights, Queens.

Dear Eric: My father’s side has always hosted holiday meals. We are all in our 60s and 70s. My parents are gone, and kids are in their 20s and 30s. My cousin has taken over and puts on a great celebration. With Covid and the death of her mother she did not host/invite us, which […]

Police are chasing a suspect in a stolen sedan in Los Angeles County Friday night. The driver was seen travelling at high speeds on surface streets and ignoring traffic signals before entering the 105 Freeway, then transitioning onto the 110 Freeway. The suspect hit speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour at times while weaving […]

Two Southern California men have been charged in a fatal car-to-car shooting in Diamond Bar just over two years ago. Richard Pedroza, 28, of Alhambra and Daniel Rios, 26, of La Habra face the following charges: “The charges include several allegations including that the crimes involved great violence, great bodily harm, the threat of great […]