*In a Major Rebuke to Trump, US Senate Rejects Border Emergency
*California Seeks to Reduce Police Shootings

*Farmers Asked to Report Slavery in the Fields
*Investments Proposed in Asthma Prevention Services
*Guatemala Debates Legislation to Pardon Members of the Military Implicated in Atrocities

*Prison System Reforms for Women Urged at Civil Rights Commission
*Fate of Texas Secretary of State in the Hands of Democratic Lawmakers
*“Roma” Wins Academy Awards, Shining a Spotlight on Domestic Workers

*Supreme Court Weighs Citizenship Question on 2020 Census
*Pioneering Alternative School in California Helps Young Refugees to Graduate
*Master Canoeists Build Boats to Celebrate the Historic Occupation of Alcatraz

*Latino Attorney General Rebuts Trump’s State of the Union
*Latina Voter in Texas Rejects Attempted Purge from Voting Rolls
*Purhépechas Keep Mexican Traditions Alive in Northwestern US

*On Thin Ice: Congress Negotiations to Avoid a New Shutdown
*California’s First Charter School Strike Ends
*Toxic Lead Dust
*Teacher Promotes Racial Tolerance Using Technology

*Federal Employees Struggling Due to Government Shutdown
*Teachers in Los Angeles Return to Classes after Historic Agreement
*Human Rights Crisis Pushes Guatemalan Migrants to Exodus

*Julián Castro Launches Presidential Bid
*New Migrant Caravan Sets Out from Honduras
*Teacher’s Strike in Los Angeles
*Inmates Begin to be Released under The First Step Act, Despite Obstacles