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Southern California is a food lover's paradise — unless you live in a poor neighborhood and have no car. But that's the reality for residents of a community in East Los Angeles where the nearest supermarket is miles away. Some residents are speaking out in the hopes of attracting more healthful food options.

Some 10,000 firefighters battled the inferno in San Diego County last week. One hundred or so got hurt. No firefighters died. Many of them brought back stories of survival. The first injuries were rep

San Diego is home to one of the largest Somali communities in the United States. In the first of a three-part series, KPBS takes a look at how the Somali refugees are rebuilding their lives in San Diego.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said in a televised national address that there is a high risk of more radioactivity leaking from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. He ordered everyone within 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) to evacuate and everyone within 30 kilometers (about 19 miles) to remain inside.

Filmmaker Examines Nazi Propaganda Film

For the first time in many decades, Congress appears to be taking a hard look at the nation's deficit problem — one that President Obama plans to address in a speech Wednesday.

For decades, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. were locked in a checkmate that brought the countries to the brink of nuclear war. Now, a new multipolar landscape exists where at least nine countries have nuclear weapons and China is projected to become the world's largest economy.

'Toy Story 3' and 'The Goonies' Get Special Treatment

Tens of thousands of people are streaming back into Southern Sudan, anticipating that the region will choose independence in a referendum next month. But the south is desperately poor and undeveloped. Some observers wonder whether the would-be nation can handle many more returnees.

The President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, Wayne Pacelle, joins us today to talk about the biggest threats currently facing animals in the U.S. We also speak to Pacelle about his new book "The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them."