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Chula Vista Mayor John McCann speaking before a crowd at his first State of the City address on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023.

3 takeaways from Chula Vista's 2023 State of the City address

Mayor John McCann, the leader of the region’s second largest city, gave his first state of the city address on Tuesday, highlighting the city’s progress and aspirations.

Listening to Kim Gordon's new album <em>The Collective </em>uncannily bottles up the feeling of being on the Internet, trying to discern what's real and what's not.

Kim Gordon on her intense, disorienting, beat-driven new solo album, 'The Collective'

The artist's radically inventive new album produced with Justin Raisen plays like an apt distillation of what it's like to live right now.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, shown here in 2008, was born on May 27, 1923

Henry Kissinger, controversial diplomat and foreign policy scholar, dies at 100

Kissinger's guiding foreign policy principle was that strategic national interests take priority over more idealistic aims, like the promotion of human rights and democracy.

An aerial view of an area affected by an extratropical cyclone in Muçum, in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on Tuesday. Authorities are warning there could be more flooding to come.

A cyclone has killed over 20 people in Brazil, with more flooding expected

The southern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul and neighboring Santa Catarina are reeling after a devastating cyclone killed 27 people and displaced thousands.

Elizabeth Debicki as Diana in the sixth and final season of <em>The Crown.</em>

'The Crown' shines in its final season — just remember it's not the History Channel

The Crown shifts seamlessly from highly accurate depictions to invented moments. In its sixth season, deeply personal scenes once again may make viewers wonder if what they're seeing really happened.

Left: A Palestinian woman cries at the garden of Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist Hospital after it was hit in Gaza City, Gaza on Oct. 18. Right: After an attack by Hamas on a kibbutz near the Gaza border, a swing is left intact while most of this family's house is in ruins. Five family members were kidnapped.

The Middle East crisis is stirring up a 'tsunami' of mental health woes

The Israel-Gaza conflict is likely to leave people in the region struggling with trauma-related mental health symptoms for a long time to come.

Amy poses with her adopted children, whose identities were requested to be hidden, inside their home in Pine Valley on April 1, 2023. Their last names were also asked to be omitted.

California child welfare agencies under fire for pocketing foster kids’ Social Security money

A California grandmother fights to retrieve $30,000 taken by San Diego County from her grandchildren’s survivor benefits. Counties take millions of dollars in federal benefits from foster children, says a lawmaker trying to stop it.

The Zamora family is one of many impacted by the Uvalde school shooting. Their daughter Mayah was shot and survived. Now the family is one of two suing the gun maker Daniel Defense.

A year after Uvalde, lawsuits will test firearms industry's immunity protections

Federal law protects the firearms industry from many lawsuits, but Uvalde parents are putting the laws to the test by suing a gun manufacturer over the way they market their weapon.

Billie Jean King makes a diving backhand return of a shot in a May 14, 1976 photo in Hartford, Connecticut.

Billie Jean King play gets world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse

A new play tells the story of American women's tennis icon Billie Jean King, whose impact on sports equality is so much more than the "Battle of the Sexes" match.

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho was always searching for new timbres of instrumental sound.

Kaija Saariaho, the composer who explored color and light, has died at age 70

Saariaho, who battled a male-dominated educational system in her native Finland, forged a strong and singular voice in contemporary music.

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