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SANTA ANA, CA - JUNE 08: The DNA kit genetic genealogist CeCe Moore used to trace Kayla Tovo's family tree which led to finding her biological mother. ///ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: babyalphabeta.XXXX ?ê 6/8/15 ?ê LEONARD ORTIZ, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER - 06.Slug goes here.lo.jpg -- Back in November 1987, a newborn wrapped in an old blanket was found near a dumpster at an Alpha Beta supermarket in Anaheim. She was dubbed Baby Alpha Beta in news stories. Orangewood Children's Home later renamed her Baby Noel. She was soon adopted and grew up in a happy home in Orange County. She joined the military out of high school, was wounded and disabled in Afghanistan, and is now medically retired at the age of 26. Kayla Tovo never really wanted to find out about her birth mother until she had her son, who turns 6 this month. But still she waited. Then last year, she started her search and, aided by a DNA expert Cece Moore located her birth family. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Police Are Getting DNA Data From People Who Think They Opted Out

Jordan Smith

Forensic genetic genealogists skirted GEDmatch privacy rules by searching users who explicitly opted out of sharing DNA with law enforcement.

FILE - The Planned Parenthood Arizona location in Tempe, Ariz., is seen on June 30, 2022. On Friday, Dec. 30, 2022, the Arizona Court of Appeals concluded that abortion doctors can't be prosecuted under a pre-statehood law that criminalizes nearly all abortions. The law had been blocked from being enforced shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. But after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision in June, Attorney General Mark Brnovich asked a state judge to allow the law to be implemented. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

The End of Roe

Clinic Fire Deals Blow to Abortion Access on California-Arizona Border

Schuyler Mitchell

- Aug. 16

The Planned Parenthood clinic was the only abortion provider in California’s Imperial County and a haven for out-of-state patients.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES - 2020/05/09: A protester holds a placard that says Fake News Is The Real Virus during the demonstration. Citizens staged a protest in front of the Huntington Beach Pier to demand for the reopening of the California economy. (Photo by Stanton Sharpe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Anti-Press Hatred Is Alive and Well in Kansas

James Risen

- Aug. 15

The assault on the Marion County Record is another reminder that Trumpism is a threat to press freedom.

ORLANDO, FL - MARCH 22: Disney employee Nicholas Maldonado holds a sign while protesting outside of Walt Disney World on March 22, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. Employees are staging a company-wide walkout today to protest Walt Disney Co.'s response to controversial legislation passed in Florida known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. (Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

Targeting Trans Kids, Florida School Board Requires Parental Approval for Nicknames

Natasha Lennard

- Aug. 9

The Orange County Public Schools’ anti-trans policies are extreme, even in Ron DeSantis’s Florida.

Umar Khalid Challenged Modi’s Anti-Muslim Agenda. India Accused Him of Terrorism and Locked Him Up.

Sonia Faleiro

- Aug. 6

The Modi government has weaponized India’s sedition and anti-terror laws to disappear Khalid and other political critics from public life.

A joint patrol between soldiers from the 1st Platoon, 1-64 Armored Batallion of the US Army, operating under NATO command, walks through Morghan-Khecha village in Daman district, Kandahar province on September 8, 2012. Afghanistan's first vice president on September 8 warned deteriorating security could jeopardize transparent elections in 2014 as Kabul prepares to take over from NATO troops. President Hamid Karzai, who has been the only elected head of state in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led invasion brought down the Taliban, is due to stand down in 2014. His re-election in 2009 was accompanied by widespread fraud and the international community sees the next vote as one of the last major hurdles before NATO combat troops withdraw at the end of 2014. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA (Photo by TONY KARUMBA / AFP) (Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)

War Criminal’s Bid to Become Lawyer Faces Obstacle: His Own Troops

Murtaza Hussain

- Aug. 5

Donald Trump pardoned Clint Lorance, a former Army officer convicted of murdering innocent civilians in Afghanistan.

FILE - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp delivers the State of the State address on the House floor of the state Capitol, Jan. 25, 2023, in Atlanta. The Republican Kemp announced final tax collections for 2023 on Wednesday, July 12, indicating the state will run a roughly $5 billion surplus for the budget year just ended. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, File)

Reformist DAs Sue Georgia Over Law to Remove Elected Prosecutors — Including One Probing Donald Trump

Akela Lacy

- Aug. 2

Gov. Brian Kemp, whose commission will oversee local district attorneys, signed the law shortly after a prosecutor said she would pursue a Trump indictment.

The Online Christian Counterinsurgency Against Sex Workers

Jack Poulson, Sam Biddle

- Jul. 29

Evangelical military vets are using “counterterror” internet surveillance techniques to help police get search warrants against sex workers.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents gather before a raid to arrest immigrants considered a threat to public safety and national security during an early morning raid in Compton, Calif., Monday, June 6, 2022. This weekend, the Biden administration said it would suspend an order prioritizing the arrest and deportation of immigrants considered a threat to public safety and national security in order to comply with a ruling earlier in June 2022 from a Texas judge. Many otherwise law-abiding immigrants living here illegally will now be afraid to leave their homes out of concern they'll be detained. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Protests for Black Lives

Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Routinely Undercount Use-of-Force Incidents

Akela Lacy

- Jul. 27

Following Biden’s executive order to improve transparency on use of force, the Department of Homeland Security has failed to accurately compile its data, a new report finds.

Migrants that arrived from Mexico look at their phones as they wait for transportation near a processing center, in Brownsville, Texas on May 10, 2023. The US on May 11, 2023, will officially end its 40-month Covid-19 emergency, also discarding the Title 42 law, a tool that has been used to prevent millions of migrants from entering the country. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

Texas State Police Purchased Israeli Phone-Tracking Software for “Border Emergency”

Sam Biddle, Ryan Devereaux

- Jul. 26

The software was licensed as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s troubled Operation Lone Star border crackdown.