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China doles out much cash for infrastructure. It must be repaid. Is that frustrating for recipients? A new survey has a surprising answer. But skeptics wonder: How honest were the participants?

NPR's advice podcast shares the most popular episodes of the year, which includes tips on how to avoid thinking traps and protect North American birds during migration.

As China holds a memorial service for its late leader Jiang Zemin, an NPR correspondent who met Jiang reflects on the figure and his transforming country.

He says they lacked focus for their first games.

Lachlan Murdoch, head of Fox News' parent company, is scheduled to be deposed Monday in Dominion's $1.6 billion lawsuit against the company.

Join author George Galdorisi as he speaks about his newest book, AI at War. This book is the first to deal with the military and naval application of artificial intelligence (AI) in a comprehensive and pragmatic fashion. It presents the widest possible viewpoints on the actual (as opposed to theoretical) use of AI in war and will appeal to all interested in this subject. George Galdorisi is Director of Strategic Assessments and Technical Futures for the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. Prior to joining NIWC Pacific, he completed a thirty-year career as a naval aviator, culminating in 14 years of consecutive experience as executive officer, commanding officer, commodore, and chief of staff. He began his writing career in 1978 with an article in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. He has written fourteen books, including the New York Times best seller, Tom Clancy Presents: Act of Valor, the novelization of the Bandito Brothers/Relativity Media film and The Kissing Sailor, which proved the identity of the two principals in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous photograph. His reboot of the best-selling Tom Clancy’s Op-Center Series includes three consecutive the New York Times best sellers, Out of the Ashes, Into the Fire and Scorched Earth. His most recent fiction project is a new series of Rick Holden thrillers published by Braveship Books (The Coronado Conspiracy, For Duty and Honor and Fire and Ice). His most recent non-fiction project is AI at War How Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Are Changing Naval Warfare. Additionally, he has published more than four hundred articles in professional journals and national newspapers. Date | Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 11am Location | Coronado Public Library (Winn Room) Register here! For further information on this event please visit, https://coronado.librarycalendar.com/event/hour-george-galdorisi

After unseasonably high temperatures last week, San Diego is bracing for cold and wet weather over the next few days. Next, according to a new UC Berkeley poll, Senator Dianne Feinstein is down to an all-time-low 30% approval rating and her home-state support is collapsing. Then, Marine families are still mourning and seeking closure from the military justice system 18 months after the AAV accident that killed nine in July 2020. And, we hear from Lamont Jackson, a finalist for the San Diego Unified School District superintendent position. Finally, the theme for this year’s Writer’s Symposium by the sea at Point Loma Nazarene University is “Writing that Provokes.” Author and public-theologian Nadia Bolts-Weber joins Midday Edition to talk about religion and radical honesty.

Broadway-legend-in-training Stephen Sondheim was a college sophomore in 1948 when his musical Phinney's Rainbow was produced — and recorded — at Williams College in Massachusetts.

The filing comes just two months after a jury ordered him to pay $965 million to the families of those killed at Sandy Hook, a massacre that Alex Jones lied about for years on his InfoWars broadcasts.

The announcement by the Twitter CEO to suspend Ye came after the conservative social media platform Parler said it had agreed with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West to call off a deal.