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Few women ran and few women voted during the elections, but many in the country see Salema bint Hizab al-Otaibi's win as a turning point for women's rights.

For one year, on her daily walks, poet Harryette Mullen observed the collision of the natural world with the man-made environs of Los Angeles. She translated her impressions into a series of tankas, 31-syllable poems in the Japanese tradition. The resulting collection is called Urban Tumbleweed: Notes From a Tanka Diary.

For the first time, women in Saudi Arabia are allowed run for office and vote. But they're still banned from driving and need a male guardian's permission to travel, work and pursue higher education.

Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 12 p.m. on KPBS TV. Patricia Racette is Cio-Cio San in a stunning production of "Madama Butterfly." The late Academy Award-winning film director Anthony Minghella directed this new classic of the Met repertory. Patrick Summers conducts Puccini’s heartbreaking tale of a Japanese geisha betrayed by her American lover.

The nation's largest insurer by revenue is buying the operations of a big doctor group practice in Calif. The deal is the latest in a string of similar purchases for UnitedHealth and is part of growing trend among insurers seeking to control medical costs.

In the tiny town of Hemingway, S.C., the Scott family has been selling barbecue out of their roadside general store for nearly a half century. The smoky, vinegary pork has reached legendary status around the South.

King Abdullah of Jordan will be the first Arab leader to meet President Obama in the Oval Office, when they hold talks today at the White House. The Jordanian monarch comes with a message — that the U.S. needs to work quickly to try to revive Israeli-Palestinian talks. But the prospects look pretty bleak.

Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. A film by Ric Burns that endeavors to tell the true story of the Pilgrims, a small group of religious radicals whose determination to establish a separatist religious community planted the seeds for America’s founding.

Washington residents thinking about jumping into the state's new legal marijuana industry need to act soon. The deadline to apply for a state license to sell recreational pot is Dec. 19, and the applications are flooding in.

The Center for Biological Diversity says a federal agency is not protecting two rare butterflies that live in the coastal and mountain areas of San Diego County. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce say