New federal regulations could leave California with 61,000 fewer truck drivers as the Trump administration bans certain immigrants from operating large vehicles. With fewer truck drivers on the road, consumers may see higher shipping costs, too. bit.ly/4peUFUC 📸 Larry Valenzuela

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Immigration raids are straining mental health among children and school communities across California, a state where about 1 million children have a parent who is undocumented and about 300,000 students are undocumented themselves. https://cal.news/4gWGsss 📸 Zaydee Sanchez

Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent more on administrative costs than on health care.

Tucked between two national forests, the rural county is home to 28,000 people. Without a local emergency room, they’ll instead have to travel at least 40 minutes to a neighboring county for critical care. https://cal.news/46pbMwe 📸 Chris Kaufman

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job.” calmatters.org/justice/2025...

Breaking: The U.S. Supreme Court lifted limits on immigration sweeps in Southern California, overturning a lower court ruling that prohibited agents from stopping people based on their appearance. https://cal.news/4nq5YZk 📝 @wendyfry.bsky.social 📸 Etienne Laurent, AFP via Getty

Assembly Bill 1312 would require hospitals to check whether patients are eligible for charity care or discounted payments before sending them a bill. cal.news/46BuJMW 📝: Ana Ibarra @ab-ibarra.bsky.social 📷: Louis Bryant III

Kamala Harris will not run for California governor, ending months of feverish speculation and raising fresh questions about the next chapter of her political career. calmatters.org/politics/202...

The LA Times details how ICE arrested a deaf DACA recipient during a raid on the car wash where he worked (legally -- as a DACA recipient he has a permit to work in the US). They shipped him to a migrant detention facility in Texas: www.latimes.com/california/s...

The House gives final approval to President Donald Trump's $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid. Passed by a vote of 216-213, the bill now goes to Trump for his signature.

BREAKING: ICE officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all Medicaid enrollees, according to an agreement obtained by the AP.

California launched an AI chatbot for wildfires. But CalMatters reporter @malenacarollo.bsky.social found it doesn’t reliably provide information such as a list for evacuation supplies and can’t tell users about evacuation orders. calmatters.org/economy/tech...

The temporary $50 billion rural health fund in the Republican tax and spending bill gets distributed from 2026 to 2030. But, 63% of the Medicaid cuts hit after 2030. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Doctors regularly need to pay more than $300,000 for medical school, including tuition and housing. New regulations signed by President Donald Trump cap their federal borrowing at $200,000 for medical degrees. buff.ly/GUSXLkd 📝 @mzinshteyn.bsky.social & Kristen Hwang

A California farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when US immigration agents raided a cannabis operation and arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group. @leahjdouglas.bsky.social www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Sharing a story that is very close to my heart. Nicolle Orozco Forero is one of the thousands of immigrant women who provide child care for American kids — she cared for children w/ disabilities. Now, she and her seriously ill son have been detained by ICE. Her story: 19thnews.org/2025/07/chil...

The new federal budget signed into law by President Donald Trump is expected to raise some health care insurance premiums and force millions off coverage, reverberating the most in lower-income families and communities that are already struggling. cal.news/4641KRG 📸 Larry Valenzuela

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and its partners are selling thousands of stem cell samples before many of them are discarded. www.statnews.com/2025/07/11/s...

Taken: LA immigration raids Masked men pull up quickly and approach Latino men. When someone runs, they’re taken. When they don’t answer a question, they’re taken. When they can’t produce papers, they’re taken.  calmatters.org/investigatio... @wendyfry.bsky.social @addonohue.bsky.social

The House wants to raise the SALT deduction cap, while the Senate wants to keep it at $10,000, the limit first established in 2017 to help pay for tax cuts for big corporations. Here's my look at how the outcome could affect millions of high-income California taxpayers.

The Trump administration says it targets undocumented “criminals,” but a Times analysis found that 69% of Angelenos arrested by ICE in early June had no criminal convictions, and 58% had never even been charged with a crime.

“The mere threat of immigration enforcement near any medical facility undermines public trust and jeopardizes community health.”

Gregory Bovino is running Border Patrol’s LA operation right now. His last raid was a total mess. And he sees no difference between a farm worker and a fentanyl dealer. w/ @sergioolmos.bsky.social @wendyfry.bsky.social calmatters.org/investigatio...

Breaking: A federal judge halted President Trump’s deployment of California National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles, finding that he broke the law in ordering them to put down urban unrest without consulting Gov. Gavin Newsom. cal.news/4l4l7y9 📸 Ted Soqui

Ruben Salazar died 55 years ago while covering a protest in LA. His case illustrates the dangers journalists face today as police fire “less lethal munitions” into crowds. cal.news/3SMlTDN 📸 David McNew, Getty

Helen Chu is one of the ousted #ACIP members. She spoke to me today about her grave concerns for future vaccination policy and vaccine access in the United States. www.statnews.com/2025/06/10/c...

A carefully calibrated truce between @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and Donald Trump, forged in the wake of January’s devastating wildfires across Los Angeles, collapsed over the weekend — putting both the governor and California at increasing risk of reprisal calmatters.org/politics/202...

Lawmakers reject several of Newsom's spending cuts, but appear ready to back his proposal to halt enrollment and charge monthly premiums for undocumented adults who are covered by Medi-Cal — with some changes. calmatters.org/politics/202...

David Huerta, the SEIU California president who was arrested at an immigration protest last week, is a U.S. citizen. His grandparents immigrated from Mexico. He’s been organizing janitors since the 1990s. calmatters.org/justice/2025... By my colleague @jeannereporter.bsky.social

Hospitals. Schools. Shelters. Those are some of the places that CA lawmakers want to shield from immigration arrests and raids. They advanced a package of bills this week as President Trump’s administration continues its ramped-up deportation campaign. buff.ly/f1hoAeX 📸 Fred Greaves

Gov. Gavin Newsom and other leading California Democrats criticized President Trump’s deployment of National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles, calling it an unnecessary provocation. cal.news/4dRTfel

The House reconciliation bill would penalize states to the tune of $92 billion if they use their own funds to provide health care to undocumented immigrants. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Before session today, Latino Caucus members say they flatly reject Newsom’s proposed funding cuts for immigrant Medi-Cal expansion. The caucus wouldn’t name specific other budget solutions, but Sen. Lena Gonzalez says everything is on the table, including tax increase.

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed deep budget cuts this week. But he's doubling down on his proposal to boost Hollywood tax incentives to $750 million a year.

Come this fall, only older Americans and those with chronic health problems may be urged to get the Covid shot — assuming the vaccine is available at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

As proposed, coverage of the drugs would end on Jan. 1, 2026. Medi-Cal patients trying to lose weight would have to pay for the prescriptions themselves, at a cost of more than $1,000 per month, making it unattainable for low-income people. buff.ly/s8kKYMX 📸 David J. Phillip, AP

A year after granting Medi-Cal access to low-income immigrants without legal status, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing to freeze enrollment of new recipients and charge premiums in a move expected to save the state more than $5 billion. buff.ly/SDz4ebV 📸 Lauren Justice

A few weeks ago, I got emails from two people who saw their homeless family members -- who they hadn't heard from in years -- quoted in one of my @calmatters.org stories. Thanks to several lucky breaks, I was able to reunite them. But that was just the beginning... tinyurl.com/yhj4426s

Breaking: A federal court on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction forbidding the Border Patrol from conducting warrantless immigration stops throughout a wide swath of California. cal.news/4jVGLnJ

More immigrants opt to self-deport rather than risk being marched out like criminals / @rebeccaplevin.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

The California DMV routinely allows dangerous drivers with horrifying histories to continue to operate on our roadways, a CalMatters investigation has found. Too often they go on to kill. Many keep driving even after they kill. Some go on to kill again. calmatters.org/investigatio... 1/7

Lt. Gov. @eleniforca.bsky.social, who earns millions of dollars annually from extensive property investments around the Sacramento region and beyond, told me she’ll put “any assets that may present a conflict of interest” into a blind trust if she is elected governor. calmatters.org/politics/202...

The Trump Administration 2.0 is cutting off funding to a California dementia researcher because he structured his research project to comply with funding requirements set up by the the Trump Administration 1.0 Story by @mzinshteyn.bsky.social: calmatters.org/education/hi...

A U.S. border patrol unit traveled 300 mi. to carry out sweeping arrests in Bakersfield, California. Officials claim it was a "targeted" operation, but evidence gathered in this investigation from Evident, @calmatters.org and @bellingcat.com shows otherwise. Full report: evidentmedia.live/44fZ1mX

A second child has died of measles amid an outbreak in west Texas, sparking a rare rebuke of the Trump administration’s top health officials from a Republican senator on Sunday.

‘Everybody’s been denied some form of care,’ said one California mental health advocate. Now, lawmakers are advancing new bills on behavioral health coverage. cal.news/4hjJLIM 📝 Jocelyn Wiener 📸 Gabriel Hongsdusit

Another exceptional @calmatters.org project from the inimitable Julie Cart...this one on the unsuccessful billions spent on improving the health of the Tahoe basin, and the questionable tourism and recreation shift in one of the riskiest fire regions that exists calmatters.org/series/lake-...

NEWS: University of California will enforce a systemwide hiring freeze, UC President Michael Drake just said at UC Regents meeting. Freeze is to prepare for a planned 8% state budget cut to UC as well as federal cuts to public health and research that are responsible for billions of dollars for UC.