Julie Watson

2 months ago | post-gazette.com | Jordan Anderson |Geoff Mulvihill |John Hanna |Julie Watson

O’NEILL, Neb. — The Flores family invited almost everybody they knew to baby Elian’s first birthday party, but Leydi Flores wasn’t sure whether anyone would show up. Her family’s Mexican restaurant has had a ghostly feel in recent days, as many Latino families in this rural farming town lay low, scared that they might become targets of President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown. Across the country, raids have ensnared thousands and crowded immigration detention centers.

2 months ago | post-gazette.com | Jordan Anderson |Annie Gowen |Sarah L. Voisin |Julie Watson

The day after President Donald Trump returned to office, Lisa Suhay took her 21-year-old daughter, Mellow, to a passport office in Norfolk, Va., where they live. Getting a passport for Mellow, who is transgender, was urgent. In an executive order Trump signed the night before, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes instead of a broader conception of gender.

Jan 15, 2025 | post-gazette.com | Jaimie Ding |Julie Watson |John Seewer

LOS ANGELES — Millions of Southern Californians nervously kept watch as winds began picking up Wednesday during a final round of dangerous wildfire weather forecast for the region where two massive blazes have killed at least 25 people and destroyed thousands of homes.

Jan 10, 2025 | post-gazette.com | Jaimie Ding |Julie Watson |John Seewer

This article was published as part of a partnership with FactCheck.org. As wildfires continued to rage in Southern California, President-elect Donald Trump took to social media with several false and misleading claims casting blame on California’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, and President Joe Biden.

Jan 10, 2025 | post-gazette.com | Jaimie Ding |Julie Watson |John Seewer