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“Boon to low-income adults.” “ Small-business job-killer.” “Good for cities, bad for rural regions.” “Too fast or long-overdue.” “All about fairness.”

Conflicting opinions raged over the action in Sacramento this week on the ground-breaking minimum wage measure.   The Times' coverage — including: “Who wins with a $15 minimum wage?” and “What’s the rush on wage hikes?

On Thursday, not a single Dodgers player took to the field with a wad of chaw in his cheek, marking the first time the team has been forbidden to chew tobacco at its home stadium.

As op-ed contributor Matt Welch wrote in The Times this week, the players’ abstinence didn't come from finally realizing the filthiness of the habit, but instead from the passage of a city ordinance. In January, the L.A.

Add immigration enforcement to the list of jobs the U.S. has partially out-sourced to Mexico, a move that seems to have made life even tougher for unaccompanied minors fleeing violence and gangs in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

As the U.S.

Across the country, the rights of transgender Americans are under attack.

Last week, North Carolina passed a bill that repealed local nondiscrimination ordinances in the state. The legislation, House Bill 2, was pushed through in an “emergency session.” HB 2 was signed by North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory the very same day.

Donald Trump has backed off his suggestion that there “has to be some form of punishment" for women who had abortions if the procedure were made illegal. The original comment, in an interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC, brought condemnations down on Trump from abortion-rights supporters — including Hillary Clinton — but also from anti-abortion spokespeople.

Within minutes of MSNBC broadcasting a clip of Donald Trump, Republican Party presidential front-runner, declaring that not only should abortion be illegal, but women who sought one illegally should be punished, a firestorm of criticism rained down on him.