Stories by Madison Aument

A California court has unsealed the secret warrants that the Riverside County sheriff used to seize hundreds of thousands of ballots. The warrants raise questions as to whether the sheriff's investigation is valid.

This week on Economics IE: gas prices, oil drilling and AI.

Jamelle Bouie is a New York Times columnist who writes about politics through the lens of American political history. Thursday night, Bouie gave a lecture at UC Riverside as part of a nearly 60 year tradition of bringing the country's best known journalists to Riverside. He told the audience the United States is asking fundamental questions like what it means to be an American. And that the Reconstruction era, the period after the American Civil War, can help Americans better understand the changes the US is undergoing today. After his lecture and a Q-and-A, KVCR reporter Madison Aument slipped backstage to ask Bouie a few more questions.

Last month. the Riverside Sheriff's Department launched an investigation into alleged irregularities in the 2025 election to redraw California's congressional map.

The Inland Empire is reacting to the bombshell allegations that Cesar Chavez, the labor movement icon, sexually abused women and young girls.