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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says Democrats are abandoning Americans in need, especially the sizable and growing homeless population, to appease illegal aliens.

Minneapolis’ Katie Steller drives through her city offering free grooming to the city’s homeless population.

Dr. Drew Pinsky said Friday that Los Angeles faces an imminent outbreak of bubonic plague because of the growth of the homeless population and the failure of state and local authorities to deal with rodent problems.

Homeless activists are protesting a new plan to build homes in the area of downtown Los Angeles known as “Skid Row” because they claim it would amount to “gentrification.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti have pushed back against President Donald Trump’s criticism of the state and its major cities over a rise in homelessness that local leaders have failed to contain.

Tens of thousands of high school students packed a stadium at a Christian conference to raise $57,000 for abused women and the homeless throughout the country.

Members of New York City’s police union plan to confront Mayor Bill de Blasio before he takes the stage at the first Democrat presidential debate.

The residential real estate surrounding Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, is now so expensive that many locals have been forced to live in vans and RVs.

San Francisco continues to struggle with homelessness, with a population count revealing last week that the local homeless population had risen by 17% since 2017 — though youth and veteran homelessness had dropped.

On Monday, New York State Supreme Court Justice Alexander Tisch ruled that city officials may build a homeless shelter in the affluent neighborhood known as “Billionaire’s Row.”

Lawmakers in Washington state are considering a bill that would give the homeless state-issued ID cards free of charge.

A typhus epidemic is spreading in Los Angeles, and has moved beyond the homeless population, according to a report by local NBC News affiliate KNBC-4.

California State Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) has introduced a bill that would guarantee a “right to shelter” and provide housing for every homeless person in the state.

A homeless man is being hailed for his honesty after he discovered a bag containing $17,000 outside of a Washington state food bank and gave it to the staff instead of pocketing the money.

A couple from New Jersey and a homeless man who captured the hearts of the nation last Thanksgiving when their tale of raising $400,000 for a homeless veteran went viral allegedly made up the entire story.

Nine women have filed a lawsuit against a Fresno homeless shelter, accusing the nonprofit of allowing a transgender biological man claiming to be a woman to sexually harass them.

Belgian police believe that organised criminal gangs in Brussels are capitalising on the migrant crisis by renting out spaces around a city park for migrants to have “intimate time” with prostitutes.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio ended his Friday workout session early because a homeless activist confronted him about New York City’s homeless problem.

The New Jersey couple accused of stealing more than $400,000 from an online fundraiser for a homeless veteran is likely to face charges, according to a lawyer representing the couple.

A California police officer added a fourth member to his family this week when he adopted the baby girl of a homeless woman battling a drug addiction.

A judge has ordered a New Jersey couple to hand over the last portion of the money they raised to help a homeless veteran, a report says.

A 44-year-old Sudanese migrant was arrested this week in the German town of Helmstedt in connection with the rape and murder of a 63-year-old homeless woman whose body was found last week.

A 26-year-old homeless man gained more than 200 job offers on Saturday after he took to the streets of Silicon Valley handing out resumes instead of begging for money.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, a Democrat who just got sworn in as San Francisco’s mayor on Wednesday, said in an interview Friday that the city’s streets are flooded with homeless excrement.

Video of a homeless man using drugs on a BART train in San Francisco last month has gone viral, raising concerns about the continued homeless crisis in the city.

A Miami tourist with no arms stabbed a tourist with a pair of scissors using only his feet on Tuesday shortly after midnight, police said.

Horry County Police Officer CJ Mullinax answered a 911 call to a restaurant in South Carolina on Saturday with an act of real compassion.

European Union (EU) migrants who were “illegally” detained and deported after sleeping rough on British streets are set to be paid hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation.

The Ventura Police Department posted a video to their Facebook page, encouraging locals to give to charities rather than offer money directly to the poor.

The Los Angeles Metro may put showers for homeless people near some of its stations, after the board of directors approved a resolution last Thursday to study the issue over the next four months.

Dr. Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), toured a homeless women’s center on Los Angeles’s infamous Skid Row Tuesday as part of a fact-finding mission aimed at tackling homelessness and providing job training for inner-city communities throughout the United States.

Fresh off a two-day “pre-presidential” trip to Iowa, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti delivered a State of the City address at City Hall on Monday where he touted Los Angeles as being central to America’s future.

California’s terrible commuter rail service speeds and on-time performance are growing worse, due to homeless camps near the tracks and transients wandering on the rails.

The City of Los Angeles wants to pay property owners to renovate garages and build backyard houses to rent out to the homeless.

A 50-year-old Christian has become the 19th homicide victim in Sadiq Khan’s London this month.

Throngs of protesters from Irvine, Huntington Beach, and Laguna Niguel shouted-down an Orange County Supervisors meeting to force a reversal of the plan to set up homeless tent camps next to local city parks.