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Trump Administration Moves to Limit Asylum Seekers at Southern Border

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Central American asylum-seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take groups of them into custody on June 12, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. The families were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing center for possible separation.  (John Moore/Getty Images)

Trump Administration Moves to Limit Asylum Seekers at Southern Border

A new rule set to take effect today  would radically change  US treatment of asylum seeker by requiring migrants to apply for asylum in a country they travel through on the way to the U.S .
Reporter: Max Rivlin-Nadler 

State Police Transparency Law Uncovers Distributing News about an Alameda Sheriff Deputy

California's police transparency law went into effect in January. Now new records uncovered by the Bay Area News Group reveal the troubling story of a sheriff's deputy in Alameda County who was fired and then picked up by another Bay Area department.
Host Lily Jamali, Guest Thomas Peele 

World’s Largest Scientific Publisher Cuts Access to UC in Battle Over Digital Sharing

The University of California system, and the students and researchers within it, are losing access to content from the world's biggest publisher of scientific literature. A Dutch company called Elsevier distributes a fifth of all papers written by UC researchers in prestigious scientific and medical journals like The Lancet.
Host Lily Jamali, Guest Sawsan Morrar

Inmates Who Contracted Valley Fever in California Prisons Petition U.S. Supreme Court for Relief 

A group of inmates who suffered from valley fever is taking their lawsuit against the state of California to the U.S. Supreme Court.  117 currently and formerly incarcerated people have petitioned the Supreme Court to argue California’s corrections department put them at risk of contracting valley fever.
Reporter: Kerry Klein 

Do You Miss The Ahwahnee And Camp Curry? A Settled Lawsuit Means Those Names Are Back

Iconic names in Yosemite National Park such as the Ahwahnee Hotel and Badger Pass are returning. This signals the end of a lengthy lawsuit over the park's trademark names.The lawsuit was filed back in 2016 by the park's former concessionaire Delaware North claiming it owned the rights to trademarks like the Wawona Hotel and Camp Curry.
Reporter: Alice Daniel

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