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Serj Tankian, singer for System of a Down

System of a Down's Serj Tankian on his memoir, why a new album hasn't come since 2005

System of a Down singer Serj Tankian covers fleeing the Lebanese Civil War as a child, advocating for recognition of the Armenian Genocide, and why his band hasn't made a new album since 2005.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses his budget proposal, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Sacramento, Calif. Newsom will release his updated budget proposal on Friday, May 10, 2024.

California governor would slash 10,000 vacant state jobs to help close $27.6 billion deficit

California's budget deficit is at least $45 billion, a shortfall so large it prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday to propose painful spending cuts impacting immigrants, kindergarteners and low-income parents seeking child care in a state often lauded for having the world's fifth-largest economy.

Thomas Hiltachk, en representación de los defensores de una medida electoral anti impuestos que se pidió a la Corte Suprema de California que retirara de la boleta electoral de noviembre, habla en el tribunal de San Francisco, el 8 de mayo de 2024. Foto de Jeff Chiu, AP Photo Pool

¿Decidirán los votantes de California los límites en impuestos en noviembre? Eso depende de la Corte Suprema

La Corte Suprema de California decidirá en las próximas semanas si descarta de la votación de noviembre una medida que haría más difícil aumentar los impuestos. El caso enfrenta a líderes y sindicatos demócratas con grupos empresariales y de contribuyentes.

City of Chula Vista Civic Center is shown in this image taken Oct. 21, 2021 with the KPBS Voter Hub overlay.

Special Election 2023: Chula Vista City Attorney

Meet the candidates and learn what's at stake in the Nov. 7, 2023, Chula Vista City Attorney race.

Photographer Lisa Ross' "Black Garden (Crib with Door)," 2009, is part of "Elegy to a Uyghur Homeland" at San Diego Museum of Art, opening Nov. 5, 2022.

5 works of art to see in San Diego in November

Must-see visual art exhibitions in San Diego right now: Lisa Ross at SDMA; Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio at the Athenaeum; Francisco Eme at Best Practice; "Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration" at the Mingei; and "Script/Rescript" at SDSU Art Gallery.

Abandoned tents remain at the migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, that is at the center of a controversy involving viral images of a flyer encouraging migrants to vote for President Biden.

A flyer in her name told migrants to vote for Biden. But she says she didn't write it

Viral images of the flyer were filmed in portable toilets of a migrant camp in Mexico, and they energized members of Congress. But NPR's reporting suggests the flyer is not what it purports to be.

San Diego weekend arts events: Sasha Koozel Reibstein, James Hubbell, bebop and more

This weekend in the arts: Otherworldly sculptures, emerging artists, a public art legend, "whodunit" theater, jazz icons, letters to Shakespeare's Juliet and live music picks.

Peruvian Julia Paredes, left in white hat, listens to instructions from a Border Patrol agent with others seeking asylum as they wait to be processed after crossing the border with Mexico nearby, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Boulevard, Calif. Mexico has begun requiring visas for Peruvians in response to a major influx of migrants from the South American country. The move follows identical ones for Venezuelans, Ecuadorians and Brazilians, effectively eliminating the option of flying to a Mexican city near the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

México endurece normas para peruanos dentro de su estrategia de visas para frenar migración a EEUU

México empezó a requerir visas a los peruanos el lunes en respuesta a un gran aluvión de migrantes del país suramericano, tras tomar medidas idénticas para venezolanos, ecuatorianos y brasileños.

Kendrick Lamar performs during the Rolling Loud hip-hop festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 2023 and Drake performs during day two of Lollapalooza Chile 2023. Last week, the two rappers' long-running feud exploded in a flurry of diss tracks.<a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/license/1515117715?adppopup=true"></a>

Taking the toll of Drake and Kendrick Lamar's vicious, gripping psychological warfare

As the jolt of adrenaline lit by the clash between the two biggest rappers of a generation fades, it's worth holding onto the possibility — however slim — that something new can grow from the chaos.

The Taliban has a history of supporting the use of stoning as a punishment for "moral crimes" — reiterated in a statement this year by their supreme leader. Above: In 2015, Afghan Solidarity members gather in Kabul to protest Taliban militants who stoned an Afghan woman to death in the Taliban-controlled area outside Firozkoh, the capital of central Ghor province. She was accused of adultery.

Taliban affirms that stoning will be punishment for adulterers — especially women

In a recording, the group's leader declared: "We will flog the women ... we will stone them to death in public [for crimes]." What does Islamic law say on the matter? And have stonings taken place?

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