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Hundreds of patient care and service workers with the AFSCME Local 3299 picketed at UC San Diego Medical Center in La Jolla today. This picket is the San Diego part of a statewide picketing at UC healthcare system pickets across the state. In total about 37,000 workers participated today according to the union, November 20, 2024.

Patient care, service workers picket at UC San Diego Medical Center and other UC campuses

Union members staged picket lines at all UC medical facilities, including at UC San Diego Medical Center La Jolla.

On the new Netflix series Black Doves, Keira Knightley plays the wife of a politician and a mom to cute kids. She's also an undercover spy, secretly feeding a covert intelligence agency information about her husband's job.

The spies on TV this fall are juggling work and family – just like the rest of us

In a wave of fall TV shows, including The Day of the Jackal, The Agency, and Netflix's new Keira Knightley series Black Doves, spies don't just answer to their intelligence agencies – they've also got families at home.

A desert festival where robots are the headliner

Scientists are using the Mojave Desert to test robots for the next space age.

People protect themselves from the sun during a heat wave in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2024. Temperatures topped 110 degrees Fahrenheit across many parts of the country during the heat wave. A new study finds that young people are disproportionately at risk from extreme heat in the country.

Young people are dying of heat and their risks could grow, study finds

Scientists have pointed out that extreme heat is particularly dangerous for older people. A new study shows that young, healthy people are also dying too often in extreme weather.

Lawsuit: A chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits

Two families are suing AI chatbot company Character.AI for allegedly encouraging harm after the kids became emotionally attached to the bots. One chatbot allegedly exposed a child to sexualized content.

Björk's soundscape, Nature Manifesto, is currently playing for visitors who travel on the escalator at Paris' Centre Pompidou.

A new installation lets you hear extinct and endangered animal sounds, thanks to Björk

The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what's lost and what we stand to lose as a result of human-caused climate change.

Turkeys at a farm as California declares state of emergency to prevent new public health crisis on Bird flu in Pescadero, California, in December.

Bird flu Q&A: What to know to help protect yourself and your pets

Each week some revelation about bird flu seems to flutter through the news cycle. Here's what the latest research is saying about how it is spreading and how to keep yourself and your pets safe.

How Syria's revolution could reshape the Middle East

The swift downfall of Bashar al-Assad is reverberating throughout the Middle East. Countries are urgently reassessing how to deal with a nation seeking to rebuild itself after years of civil war.

What did Trump secretly send Putin, according to a new book? Find out in the quiz

Also, who is playing Trump in a movie? Who's hitting the podcast circuit? Will any of this matter in 80,000 years? Plus: TWO questions about Nobel Prizes!

Development of Elon Musk's rocket to Mars will likely take off under Trump

Regulators have slowed the pace of Starship launches over environmental concerns, but that may be about to change.

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