[ad_1] Los Angeles CNN — At 26, Ixchel Hernandez has become the defender and protector of her family’s modest apartment. In the two decades they’ve lived in their Los Angeles home, the family of four has successfully fought against multiple attempts aimed at pricing and, ultimately, forcing them out. “We …
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[ad_1] New York CNN — Nineteen-year-old Isabella Zaldaña dreams of becoming a nurse. And as a student at this city’s selective Manhattan Hunter Science High School, she was on her way. But she often had to pinch herself to stay awake in class. “I would nap throughout the day, instead …
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[ad_1] NEW YORK CNN — Emmanuelle Chiche remembers the first time she stumbled upon Elizabeth Street Garden, a charming green space hidden between rows of concrete buildings in lower Manhattan. It wasn’t like any other garden in the city, she remembers thinking. It transported her back to France, her home …
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[ad_1] CNN — A Texas sheriff said Monday evening his agency will open an investigation into the transportation of 48 Venezuelan migrants from the state to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, a Democrat, told reporters at a Monday news conference that his understanding was that on Wednesday …
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