NEW YORK — Nearly a million children could lose their automatic eligibility for free school lunches under a Trump administration proposal that would reduce the number of people who get food stamps. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an analysis that says as many as 982,000 children could be affected by...
Muslim Youth Have a Place to Call Their Own at My Deen
Eighteen-year-old Salman Khan is outside shooting hoops with a handful of friends, some of them his buddies since elementary school. Like Khan, the other players are Muslim young men; their basketball "court" is in a parking lot behind My Deen (it's Arabic for "My Faith"), a nonprofit organization founded over a...
Judge Blocks Trump Rules for Detained Migrant Kids
LOS ANGELES — A U.S. judge on Friday blocked new Trump administration rules that would enable the government to keep immigrant children in detention facilities with their parents indefinitely. U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee in Los Angeles said the rules conflict with a 1997 settlement agreement that requires the...
Young Protesters Around Globe Demand Climate Change Action
BERLIN — From Canberra to Kabul and Cape Town to Berlin and across the globe, hundreds of thousands of young people took the streets Friday to demand that leaders tackle climate change in the run-up to a U.N. summit. Many were children who skipped school to take part in the...
Kaiser Permanente Grants Help Local Schoolkids Get Fit, Stay Hydrated
There's a whole lot less sitting around in after-school programs at Fresno Unified School District these days after a $75,000 grant from Kaiser Permanent Fresno helped buy new equipment and hire staffers to help kids get fit — and stay there. Earlier this month students at Jefferson Elementary got to...
YouTube to Pay $170M Fine After Violating Kids’ Privacy Law
WASHINGTON — Google's video site YouTube has been fined $170 million to settle allegations it collected children's personal data without their parents' consent. The Federal Trade Commission fined Google $136 million. The company will pay an additional $34 million to New York state to resolve similar allegations. The fine is...
Mexico’s New Drug War May Be Worse Than Old One
COATZACOALCOS, Mexico — Mexico's drug war appears to be back — and it may be worse this time around than in the bloody years of the government's 2006-2012 offensive against drug cartels. Back then, the worst of the violence was confined to a few cities. Now it is spread out...
Mexico’s New Drug War May Be Worse Than Old One
COATZACOALCOS, Mexico — Mexico's drug war appears to be back — and it may be worse this time around than in the bloody years of the government's 2006-2012 offensive against drug cartels. Back then, the worst of the violence was confined to a few cities. Now it is spread out...
ABC30 Telethon for Valley Children's Brings in $219,068
A telethon Thursday by a Fresno television station to raise money for Valley Children's Hospital pulled in $219,068, the Madera County medical center said Friday. The "Futures Worth Fighting For" event by ABC30 included special reports and features at the hospital throughout the day. And you did it! A record...
'My God, I'm in Iran': A California Woman's Eye-Opening Journey
I could feel the excitement build when the pilot announced we were beginning our descent into Tabriz, but I wasn’t nervous or scared.  It just felt different.  I glanced at the other women on the plane, looking for a signal as to when I should put on my headscarf since...