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Amy Wilson, a conductor and artistic director of the Atlanta Philharmonic suffered from brain cancer but isn't able to get medicaid which makes it diffucult to pay her hospital bills.

$30 too much a month keeps a cancer patient in Georgia from cheaper care

Georgia hasn’t expanded Medicaid. Some people suffer more than others because of that coverage gap.

A smart streetlight located near the entrance of the San Diego State University campus is pictured June 4, 2019.

San Diego City Council's Public Safety Committee approves smart streetlight contract

The five-year agreement with Ubicquia and Flock Safety must first go to the full city council for approval.

For 'Such Kindness' novelist Andre Dubus III, chronic pain is a fact of life

Dubus talks about the injuries he faced as a carpenter and his relationship with his dad. His a new collection of personal essays is Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin. Originally broadcast in 2023.

'Chimney caps, vent pipes, gutters': Why some woodpeckers are major metal heads

When an NPR reporter heard a startling loud metallic noise in her house, she was about to get an interesting lesson in animal behavior.

Dante Basco and Kevin Kreider star in "Asian Persuasion,"the closing night film of San Diego Filipino Film Festival.

San Diego Filipino Film Festival off to a successful third year

The Festival will showcase more than 100 films through Sunday, Oct. 8.

The Map of the Grand Canyons of La Jolla mosaic shown from above in an undated photo. The 2,500-square foot mosaic was created by artists Robin Brailsford, Wick Alexander, Kelsy Hartley and Mariah Armstrong Conners for the Walter Munk Foundation for the Oceans in 2020.

The Map: Massive mosaic brings undersea exploration to land and public

From a 31-foot juvenile gray whale to a life-size great white shark, a mosaic offers the public a chance to explore the ocean's wonders.

People gather outside the Savage Sisters' community outreach storefront in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. The area is being hit hard by Medetomidine and Xylazine, powerful sedatives most often used by veterinarians that are moving through the illicit drug supply triggering "mass overdose" events and causing gruesome skin wounds. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Gangs mix another potent sedative into U.S. street drugs causing 'mass overdoses'

Medetomidine, a chemical long used by veterinarians and doctors, is now turning up in the street drug supply and triggering a new wave of overdoses.

A person holds a sign that reads "we are all the same Mexico" at an opposition rally called to encourage voting ahead of the June 2 presidential elections, in the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, Sunday, May 19, 2024.

Qué saber sobre las históricas elecciones que podrían llevar a una mujer a la presidencia de México

Los mexicanos votarán el domingo en unas elecciones históricas en las que entrarán en juego el género, la democracia y el populismo, mientras trazan el camino a seguir en unos comicios marcados por la violencia de los cárteles.

San Diego Police Officer Cesar Alcantara is shown in body camera footage on Nov. 15, 2018.

San Diego Police officer stages suicide, shoots gun in home, solicits sex workers — but was never disciplined

Officer Cesar Alcantara staged his suicide, shot a gun off in his home and solicited sex workers while on duty, investigators found.

A ship is seen off the coast of Gaza near a U.S.-built floating pier constructed to facilitate aid deliveries, as seen from the central Gaza Strip on May 16.

U.S. Army aid vessels become unmoored near floating Gaza pier

Rough seas drove two vessels to beach in Israel and two others to anchor on a Gaza beach. Israeli forces are assisting recovery operations near the pier, U.S. officials said. There were no injuries.

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