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Charles Davis

December 2019

  • Immigration attorneys say their clients’ applications are being refused over the equivalent of failing to dot an I or cross a T.

    Bureaucracy as a weapon: how the Trump administration is slowing asylum cases

    US Citizenship and Immigration Services is returning applications over the equivalent of failing to dot an I or cross a T

November 2019

  • Swedish activist Greta Thunberg addresses the crowd while attending a climate action rally in Los Angeles, California on 1 November 2019.

    'Ecological breakdown': Greta Thunberg and youth activists rally as wildfires burn

    The Swedish climate activist joined more than 1,000 people for an afternoon of youth-led climate action in Los Angeles

July 2019

  • The Ascencio family, from Venezuela, carry their luggage after being returned by U.S. authorities to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico as part of the first group of migrants to be sent back to Tamaulipas state under the so-called Remain in Mexico program for U.S. asylum seekers, Tuesday, July 9, 2019. Approximately 10 migrants crossed the border Monday to seek U.S. asylum and were sent back on Tuesday to wait as their applications are processed. (AP Photo/Salvador Gonzalez)

    Trump administration to continue deporting Venezuelans despite crisis

    US as yet unwilling to grant temporary protected status but senators accuse Trump of ‘having it both ways’ over Maduro

April 2019

  • Rabbi Ysrael Goldstein speaks at a press conference outside of the Chabad of Poway Synagogue on Sunday.

    Rabbi wounded in synagogue shooting says ‘senseless hate’ killings must stop

  • Synagogue members console each other after the shooting

    US synagogue shooting victim who 'took bullet for all of us' hailed a hero

  • Aftermath Of Shooting At Synagogue Near San Diego<br>President Donald Trump departs the White House en route to Joint Base Andrews on April 27, 2019. Trump commented on the San Diego synagogue shooting and his round of golf with Prime Minister Abe of Japan. Trump is going to Green Bay, Wisconsin for a campaign rally this evening. Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPIPHOTOGRAPH BY UPI / Barcroft Images

    Trump’s record on white nationalism under new scrutiny after synagogue shooting

  • Beto O’Rourke is still a fundraising machine, raising some $9.4m in the first quarter.

    Beto O'Rourke is coming to California. Can the trip redeem his campaign?

March 2019

  • Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) adjusts his hat as he arrives at a rally along the waterfront in downtown San Diego, California, U.S., March 22, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake

    Bernie Sanders visit shows California could hold key to 2020 victory

    Weekend of rallies highlight how state’s diverse electorate and new early spot on primary calendar make it a prize for Democratic candidates

January 2019

  • US aerial view of the US-Mexico border fence seen from Tijuana.

    What is life really like in border country, where Trump wants his wall?

    The Guardian travelled to five locations on the US-Mexico border to discover how Trump’s rhetoric jars with the reality on the ground
  • US-teacher-strike-education-labour<br>Elementary school teacher Yevgeniya Pokhilko holds her ‘On Strike’ sign joining thousands of teachers who marched in the rain through Los Angeles, California on January 14, 2019, the first day of the first teachers strike in 30 years targeting the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). - Teachers of the LAUSD, the second largest public school district in the US, are striking for smaller class size, better school funding and higher teacher pay. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images

    Huge teachers' strike in Los Angeles brings district of 640,000 to a halt

    Thousands of educators are demanding smaller class sizes and better resources: ‘We’re here to stand up for our students’
  • US Senator Kamala Harris

    Kamala Harris criticises those 'sowing hate' but stays quiet on presidential run

    Californian Democrat sets out hypothetical stall, criticising Trump’s border wall plan as a ‘vanity project’

November 2018

  • Mourners in Thousand Oaks.

    'Those bastards need to pass gun control': families of California shooting victims speak out

  • Mourners embrace outside of the Thousand Oaks Teen Center where relatives and friends gathered in the aftermath of the Wednesday night mass shooting.

    'It’s never going to be normal': California city in shock after gunman kills 12

August 2018

  • NICARAGUA-UNREST-OPPOSITION<br>A student fires a home-made mortar during a protest in which students from different universities from across Nicaragua gathered to demand President Daniel Ortega and his powerful vice president, wife Rosario Murillo, to resign and for government to keep the 6% budget for universities, in Managua, on August 2, 2018. The death toll in violent protests in Nicaragua against Ortega stands at 317, a US-based regional rights group said Thursday. / AFP PHOTO / Inti OCONINTI OCON/AFP/Getty Images

    Revealed: Ice teams up with Nicaragua even as US decries Ortega’s crackdown

    White House condemns Daniel Ortega’s ‘indiscriminate violence’ while countries join forces to deport Nicaraguans from US