The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has unanimously voted to consider a program that would improve emergency housing for veterans living on the streets in unincorporated areas.
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KPBS Midday EditionSupporters call it a Digital Dunkirk, as they try to raise money and provide connections to get former translators out of Kabul ahead of the American departure. -
Local Navy officials estimate they can deliver up to 7,000 daily vaccinations to service members in San Diego who have not yet gotten their shots. -
Kabul Small Animal Rescue's American director is raising money to airlift more than 200 dogs and cats, the group's staff and their families before foreign troops leave at the end of the month. -
The two congressmen, a Republican and a Democrat, are now casting doubt on an Aug. 31 withdrawal timeline. -
Twenty-three of their students are stranded in Afghanistan and haven't been able to make it back to school. -
Jewish Family Services typically has weeks to prepare for the arrival of a new family, but in recent weeks they have less than two hours. -
Aid groups say there's an urgent need for housing for tens of thousands refugees from Afghanistan as they begin to resettle around the world. -
The talks between CIA Director William Burns and Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar come as an Aug. 31 deadline looms for the end of the U.S. airlift and withdrawal of U.S. forces. -
Those huddled in their homes and in safe houses around Kabul include activists, employees of the collapsed Afghan government and women. -
A new mural honoring deported veterans was unveiled Saturday in Barrio Logan.
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