Daniel Trotta
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Reuters correspondent covering water/fire/drought, race, guns, LGBTQ+ issues and breaking news in America. Previously posted in Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Nicaragua.
Carlsbad, Calif.
Joined October 2010
Filipinas raise other people's children in Canada, adding to the grief caused by the Vancouver truck-ramming that killed 11 people.
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The election eve truck-ramming that killed 11 people and injured dozens more in Vancouver sent waves of grief across Canada's Filipino community, integral to Canada in part through many members'...
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As Trump's EPA ends 'environmental justice,' minority communities may pay a price
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From her home on Louisiana's "Cancer Alley," Lydia Gerard looks down at her 8-month-old great-granddaughter and wonders if she will one day suffer the same fate as her many friends and relatives...
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As Kentucky makes urban camping a crime, 'homeless court' seeks to avoid punishment
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Prosecutors and judges hope the program will serve as a model.
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RT @StevePadilla2: With 2025 almost here, it’s time for resolutions you’ll actually want to keep: 10 Resolutions for Editors. Resolution 1….
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As cities crack down on homeless, L.A. offers them a hotel room
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While more and more cities urge police to crack down on homeless people sleeping in parks and streets, Los Angeles has resisted the rush to lead with law enforcement since the U.S. Supreme Court in...
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RT @mhmilliken: The city council of #PalmSprings passed a ban on sleeping on public property that will expand police authority to arrest th….
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Palm Springs, long known as a desert playground for the rich and famous of Los Angeles, has enacted a number of progressive measures to address homelessness.
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Emboldened by the U.S. Supreme Court and their governor, California cities turn to police in homeless crisis -
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Palm Springs, long known as a desert playground for the rich and famous of Los Angeles, has enacted a number of progressive measures to address homelessness.
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Tijuana's sewage infrastructure is a shambles, polluting both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. The Mexican state of Baja California says it has a $530 million plan to fix it.
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Each day, millions of gallons of sewage cascade through a canyon and into the Pacific Ocean just south of the U.S.-Mexican border. As any surfer in San Diego knows, summer swells that come from the...
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Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre, a body border, hasn't surfed her own beach for 3 years due to a sewage crisis. Were the town white and wealthy, instead of 53% Latino, she says the state and federal governments would have solved it years ago.
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Each day, millions of gallons of sewage cascade through a canyon and into the Pacific Ocean just south of the U.S.-Mexican border. As any surfer in San Diego knows, summer swells that come from the...
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By the millions of gallons per day, sewage gushes into the ocean and trickles down a river. How San Diego and Tijuana are attempting to contain a crisis.
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Each day, millions of gallons of sewage cascade through a canyon and into the Pacific Ocean just south of the U.S.-Mexican border. As any surfer in San Diego knows, summer swells that come from the...
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Explainer: What is the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua?
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The United States deported hundreds of men over the weekend alleged to be members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang with prison origins that has become a key reference in President Donald Trump's...
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RT @CNN_Oppmann: Russian naval ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, to visit Cuba | CNN
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A group of Russian naval ships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will visit Cuba next week as part of “historically friendly relations,” Cuba’s government said Thursday.
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The dusty, open-air detention site known as Whiskey 8 has come to symbolize the dysfunction of the U.S. asylum process.
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Jessica Leon, an asylum-seeker from Ecuador, scaled a border wall on Tuesday with her 3-year-old daughter, setting foot on U.S. soil in San Diego, California, just hours before a new asylum ban took...
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Thank you, @FlitterOnFraud and @ChrisReese1, for an obituary that measures up to the man.
When the Velvet Underground reunited in 1993 to tour Europe, guitarist Sterling Morrison stipulated in his contract that in his dressing room after every show there must be: 1) A 6-pack of local beer & 2) Robert Gibbons. RIP to a legend w/@ChrisReese1
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That said, Reuters has has a correspondent in Cuba since 1869. Here's an important piece from our own Dave Sherwood and Alien Fernandez.
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A crowd swarms the steps of a small state-run market on the outskirts of Santiago, Cuba's second-largest city, sweating and shouting, jostling for a chance at a once-monthly ration of chicken.
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With the media focused elsewhere and largely forgetting about Cuba, the Times picked two of the best - @dadams7308 and @eliaponte - for an update.
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Cuba’s Communist revolution took aim at private businesses, making them largely illegal. Today, they are proliferating, while the socialist economy craters.
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Wherein reporter @tedhesson is accused of treason for doing his job: Abortion, border dominate US Senate race in battleground Arizona
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A restrictive abortion ban revived in Arizona is providing a new opening for Democrats in the runup to the Nov. 5 election and putting Republicans in a tricky political bind as they try to win over...
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RT @francysromeroFR: Jackie Robinson Day is not only a tribute to the great number 42. It is also a remembrance of the memory of all those….
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