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All cargo in the belly of passenger planes must be inspected, but that's not the case for cargo on cargo-only planes. Some say security should increase after two mail bombs were discovered on cargo planes headed for the U.S. But shippers say screening everything would slow things down and be extremely costly.

Encore Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV (no longer available to stream with the PBS app). What drove a company of American soldiers — ordinary young men from around the country — to commit the worst atrocity in American military history? Were they “just following orders” as some later declared? Or, did they break under the pressure of a vicious war in which the line between enemy soldier and civilian had been intentionally blurred?

2007 was a year when oil prices soared, home sales plunged and the U.S. dollar took a dive. But it was also a year when the U.S. economy performed well — at least until the last quarter — and the stock markets' major indexes are set to finish the year higher.

"The best way to represent the places where you from is be yourself, completely," says the musician and actor.

Sure, YouTube is the place to get your fix of cute babies and cats, but how-to videos are also becoming increasingly popular — and lucrative. YouTube says hundreds of entrepreneurs earn more than $100,000 a year through a program that shares ad revenue with people who post videos regularly. One of the stars: a guy who teaches you how to tie a tie.

The recent attack on Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords brought back a flood of memories for Erin Ryan. Her father, the late California Rep. Leo Ryan, was killed in Guyana in 1978 while investigating the Jim Jones religious settlement.

Talks aimed at keeping Chrysler out of bankruptcy are said to have broken down. Key investors who hold Chrysler's debt refuse to budge. Chrysler's likely to file for Chapter 11 protection as early as Thursday.

When Americans are asked what Sept. 10, 2001, was like, many call that Monday "normal" or "ordinary." That all changed on Sept. 11. Nine individuals share their serendipitous experiences, near misses or devastating turn of events from the day before America was interrupted.

Culture Lust rounds up some of San Diego's best, most interesting, and most surprising art stories from the weekend so you've got plenty of material for this week's water cooler chatter.

Hurricane Sandy, the superstorm that's headed north from the Caribbean, is expected to make landfall along the New Jersey coast. Its impending arrival prompted the evacuation of hundreds of thousands.