A California law eliminating cash bail has been put on hold.

• By Rebecca Worby

The passage of Medicaid expansion in three deeply conservative states is evidence that a less partisan presentation of policy is allowing voters to make decisions based more on their own interests.

• By Brianna Provenzano

A police officer stands guard in front of R. Kelly's recording studio in the West Loop as city inspectors go through the property on January 16th, 2019, in Chicago, Illinois.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The Speaker of the House has withdrawn her invitation for the president to give the State of the Union address later this month. What if he tries to give one anyway?

• By Jack Herrera

But there are still no conversion therapy laws in more than half of the United States.

• By Kelley Czajka

As acting administrator, Andrew Wheeler has worked to ease environmental regulation.

• By Francie Diep

The WHO has named vaccine hesitancy as one of the top 10 public-health threats of 2019. Here's how the anti-vaccination movement came about, and what to do about it.

• By Kate Wheeling

Just because we have CRISPR doesn't necessarily mean we should use it.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A woman reacts after being rescued from the Dusit Hotel on January 15th, 2019, in Nairobi, Kenya.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The House Oversight and Reform Committee announced on Monday the launch of an investigation into the pharmaceutical industry's pricing practices.

• By Kelley Czajka

The judge ruled that, while the administration's move to include a citizenship question was not in itself unconstitutional, it was "unlawful for a multitude of independent reasons."

• By Jack Herrera

Particularly that of the country's most marginalized groups.

• By Jared Keller

Angry protesters barricaded roads with burning tires and rocks after the government more than doubled the price of fuel in a bid to improve supplies as the country battles its worst gasoline shortage in a decade.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Climate change and development have undoubtedly increased fire risk in California, but if utilities don't pay the damages, someone else will.

• By Emily Moon

The two regulations, which would have let employers with "religious and moral objections" deny employees cost-free birth control coverage, briefly took effect Monday.

• By Kelley Czajka

Overdoses on opioid drugs—including heroin, prescription painkillers, and certain street drugs—were the top cause of unintentional, preventable deaths in the United States in 2017.

• By Francie Diep

After a judge blocked the administration's attempt to categorically deny asylum to those fleeing domestic violence and gang violence, administration officials acquiesced and sent out new guidance to asylum officers and immigration judges.

• By Jack Herrera

Trump's campaign scandals ultimately benefited him in the 2016 election. That won't be the case in 2020.

• By Seth Masket

Pope Francis speaks from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on January 13th, 2019.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

If the election results are accurate, this could be the DRC's first democratic transfer of power since the country gained independence from Belgium in 1960.

• By Kelley Czajka

Pacific Standard spoke with a psychologist about new guidelines to improve men's psychological and emotional health.

• By Emily Moon

Options include drinking a beer, eating some cheese, and learning a new language.

• By Kelley Czajka

But that's not necessarily a bad thing.

• By Kate Wheeling

Researchers find high lead levels in an Ohio county, Fiat Chrysler pays the price for its emissions scandal, and the Supreme Court upholds California's foie gras ban.

• By Rebecca Worby