By Matthew Daly and Matthew Brown The Trump administration announced on Thursday new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, advancing a project that critics say could harm coastal communities and ecosystems, as...

By Jackie Llanos Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Alex Padilla lambasted the training standards for newly hired immigration agents in a scathing letter to the Trump administration on Thursday. The senators are pushing for information from the Department of Homeland...

By Julie Tsirkin and Brennan Leach Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., walked out of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on border security and immigration hearing this afternoon, telling NBC News that it was “clearly not” a serious attempt to examine Immigration and...

By Stuart Anderson As America’s population ages, immigrants will play a significant role in providing health care to Americans, according to new research. Nearly 20% of health care workers in the United States are foreign born. That includes physicians, nurses,...

By Jim Saksa Christy McCormick is facing fresh calls to resign her position on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) or rescind her recent conspiratorial comments, which were first reported by Democracy Docket. “We write to condemn your October 29,...

By Jim Newton Senator Alex Padilla is a working-class kid from Pacoima who grew up to represent his own neighborhood on the Los Angeles City Council. He’s the son of immigrants and a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....