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The 28-year-old Black man died at a Virginia mental health facility earlier this month. A grand jury indicted 10 deputies and hospital workers on charges of second-degree murder.

The founder of San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn.com, who had been on the lam for the past three years while facing federal sex trafficking charges, was arrested this week in Spain, the FBI announced Friday.

Westwood's fashion career began in the 1970s with the punk explosion, when her radical approach to urban street style took the world by storm.

With a predicted surge of the omicron variant over the winter break, officials at UC San Diego decided to return to distance learning for the first two weeks of January. Both the UC and CSU systems are requiring students to get COVID-19 booster shots before returning to campus. Also, researchers are struggling to figure out exactly what kind of danger omicron poses and how to fight it. And a look at what worked, who fell through the cracks and what's next for the region's renters and landlords as housing becomes increasingly more expensive and pandemic protections evaporate. Finally, Diversionary Theatre used the pandemic shutdown to do some much-needed renovation. The theater reopened in September.

A crisis pregnancy center in Idaho opened a maternity home in the months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The residents have more complicated stories than the home's founders expected.

Russia and Ukraine are believed to have suffered equally horrific losses in the war. But when it comes to troop strength, the math is on Russia's side. Its population is four times Ukraine's.

NPR's official Twitter feeds have gone silent. The news organization cites the social media platform's decision to question NPR's editorial independence through a series of inaccurate labels.

John Singleton Copley began his career in Boston painting portraits which contributed vitally to the forging of a social identity for the American merchant class. While the American Revolution was brewing, Copley was busy painting portraits and expanding his reputation as the premiere artist in pre-Revolutionary America. His portrait of Mrs. Thomas Gage was an unusual example. She was the wife of Thomas Gage, commander in chief of the British forces in North America. The beauty of her portrait was undisputed. The artist himself deemed it “beyond compare the best lady’s portrait I ever drew.” When he sent it to London, there were those who criticized it because they expected that a portrait of the distinguished wife of a British commander would be less artistic, less informal, a more rigorous likeness. Was there more to Margaret Kemble Gage than her beauty and her languid pose? Join us for this docent-led talk to learn more. Date | Thursday, June 2 from 11 a.m. to noon Location | Online Register here for free! For more information, please visit timkenmuseum.org/free-virtual-talk-john-singleton-copley-forger-of-american-identity or contact Alexandra Riley at ariley@timkenmuseum.org or by phone at (619) 550-5955.

A group of economists conducted one of the first empirical studies of "generative AI" at a real-world company. They found it had big effects.

Federal officials will more closely monitor the impacts of shrinking lakes throughout the U.S. West after President Joe Biden signed legislation that creates and funds monitoring efforts into the region's saline lakes.