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House Republicans passed a debt ceiling bill last week with a provision to enact new work requirements for those seeking federal assistance, claiming the measure would help cut federal spending.Although the bill is unlikely to become law, it would require millions of low-income Americans who receive food stamps and health insurance from the federal government to work longer hours in order to qualify for benefits.

Image The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art in Napa features many Northern Californian artists, including Mark di Suvero and his sculpture For Veronica.Credit...Grace Hendricks NAPA There's a popular stop in Wine Country, along a winding highway with acres of vineyards unfurling on either side.But it isn't a place to taste chardonnay or cabernet sauvignon, nor is it a new Michelin-starred restaurant.

Consultation is not a new concept.Neither is the wisdom and insight that comes from listening.Lived experience counts.Most people would agree.Yet when it comes to a simple request from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to have a voice, suddenly these things are open to debate.Show us the evidence, critics say.

Twenty years after the subway stopped taking tokens, the transit workers who staff what many New Yorkers still call token booths are finally being set free.Starting Thursday, the roughly 2,300 clerks are taking on new roles providing customer service: They will walk around stations to help riders navigate the sprawling transit system and assist with OMNY, the fully digital tap-and-go payment screens that are replacing the yellow-and-blue MetroCard.

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The Los Angeles Police Department released edited footage Monday from the fatal police shooting of a woman near a freeway overpass in Silver Lake last month, showing officers shouting orders at the woman and then opening fire after she raised what turned out to be a pellet gun in their direction.

The fence went up in 2021, just as a homeless encampment with nearly 200 people was cleared out.Workers began dismantling the fence that surrounds Echo Park Lake on Monday, two years after a massive homeless encampment was cleared out of the historic park.Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, who took office in December, ran on a promise to take the temporary chain-link fence down, calling it a "symbol" of the city's biggest failure on homelessness.

San Diego will open a 45-bed shelter for homeless LGBTQ+ youth run by the local LGBT Community Center, the San Diego Housing Commission announced earlier this month.The commission has allocated $1.5 million for the shelter as part of its overall plan to address local homelessness.The San Diego LGBT Community Center is now seeking out a permanent location for sheltering queer and non-queer youth between the ages of 18 and 24.

T he Casey Report into standards within the Metropolitan Police has been released to reveal the force has been riddled with bullying, poor leadership and the rotten treatment of black people.Baroness Dame Louise Casey said that the protection of women had been thrown out of the window and called the Met institutionally sexist, racist and homophobic.

Four weeks ago, Mayor Karen Bass' homelessness team found a warm place indoors for Princeton Parker, a 38-year-old living in a tent on L.A.'s Westside.Parker was delighted by his move to the Hotel Silver Lake at the edge of Silver Lake and Historic Filipinotown.The rooms were large, and his friends from the encampment were close by.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Wednesday that she expects the city will have housed more than 4,000 homeless Angelenos by the time she reaches her 100th day in office.Bass, appearing with her team at a City Hall discussion on homelessness, said she expects about 1,000 of those people will come from her Inside Safe program, which has been taking unhoused people off the streets and checking them into city-leased hotels and motels.

In August of 2012, a small sandwich shop opened on Rose Street in Edinburgh.That store, Social Bite, would go on to become a major force in tackling homelessness in Scotland and across the UK.Fast forward to March of 2022, and Social Bite landed in London, opening up a coffee shop on The Strand, Westminster.

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's top issues-homelessness, public safety, growth and blight-haven't changed since he took office, but tackling them is going to require an aggressive approach.Mahan released his budget proposal this week, which outlines how he plans to allocate millions of dollars to address the city's top problems.

The suspect accused of using a metal pipe to attack a former San Francisco fire department official was released from custody Thursday and is to appear in court for a preliminary hearing in late May.Prosecutors say former San Francisco Fire Department Commissioner Don Carmignani sustained serious injuries after being attacked in early April by a suspect with a metal pipe outside of his mother's home in San Francisco.

Before making his literary debut in 2017 with Montpelier Parade, Irish-born novelist Karl Geary spent more than two decades acting and screenwriting, with credits including Coney Island Baby (starring his wife-to-be, Breaking Bad's Laura Fraser), The Burrowers and an episode of Sex and the City.(Just don't ask him about his shirtless appearance in Madonna's 1992 coffee-table tome, Sex.) Now 50, he's back with a second book, Juno Loves Legs, a piercing platonic love story whose misfit protagonists careen into young adulthood in 1980s Dublin, where he himself grew up.

T he total given out in our On The Breadline campaign has hit almost 4 million after more than 1 million was today handed to charities supporting disadvantaged people across London.The focus of this second and final phase of funding has been to help groups disproportionately hit by the cost of living crisis.

Today we have given out more than 1m to charities supporting disadvantaged people across London, bringing the total we have distributed in grants from our On the Breadline campaign to almost 4m.The focus of this second and final phase of funding has been to provide help to population groups disproportionately impacted by the cost of living crisis.

In a puzzling phenomenon, the city of San Francisco spends hundreds of millions of dollars to house the homeless population.But it also spends millions of dollars evicting some of those same people from the very housing they were placed in.There is currently an eviction moratorium in San Francisco.Yet the city of San Francisco (or rather, the city's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing) evicts hundreds of people every year ironically, evicting through their programs, from buildings we call single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels.

Nine leading contemporary artists have come together to create an interactive exhibition in Barcelona for kids and anyone in touch with their inner child.Before the pandemic we had the idea of mounting an exhibition of contemporary art for people of all ages, something that children could relate to but also so that older people could relive the experience of being a child and participate as if they were children, said Martina Milla, who jointly curated the show at the Fundacio Joan Miro with Patrick Ronse, the artistic director of the Be-Part contemporary art platform in Belgium.

Hello, and welcome to this week's selection of top stories in pictures.On Sunday "Everything Everywhere" dominated this year's Academy Awards, taking in seven Oscars, including awards for lead actress Michelle Yeoh, and supporting categories for actor Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis.Peruse the full list of winners and take a look at exclusive photos from behind the scenes.

Marisa Alcaraz, 38, pitches herself as an advocate for working families and is deputy chief of staff and environmental policy director to L.A. Councilmember Curren Price.She's worked on several antipoverty programs, including one that gave "hero pay" to grocery store employees who worked during the pandemic.

Affordable housing issues are creating conflict as advocates centre on a fight for a parcel of land acquired by a private developer in a marginalized neighbourhood, even though experts say their calls for expropriation might not be the solution the city needs.The seven properties between 214 and 230 Sherbourne St., located in the east of Toronto Centre, have been a key rallying point for advocates.

Los Angeles police shot a woman in Silver Lake on Wednesday night after she waved what officers described as a gun at them, according to law enforcement sources.The woman was struck in the lower body, according to the sources, who asked to remain anonymous because they weren't authorized to discuss the investigation.

A San Francisco art gallery owner who was seen on video spraying water on a homeless woman with a hose has been arrested, according to authorities.Here, San Francisco police cars sit parked in front of the Hall of Justice on February 27, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Police have arrested a San Francisco art gallery owner who was caught on video spraying a homeless woman with a water hose.