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Amazon is looking at drastically reducing its delivery times -- to 30 minutes or less -- as it plans a new service called Prime Air that it says could debut in a few years. In an interview on CBS' 60 Minutes, CEO Jeff Bezos said the giant online retailer plans to use semi-autonomous drones to carry purchases to customers.

The walls of the warehouse complex in Queens were once covered with ever-evolving spray-painted art. But the graffiti museum (of sorts) has been painted over in preparation for demolition, and artists are mourning the loss.

Fifteen years before the first East London warehouse party, young Brits congregated in dancehalls and partied all night to rare American R&B music.

At a meeting on Monday, San Diegans will have their chance to talk about the reality that waste will be staying at the San Onofre Nuclear Generation Stations for decades—and possibly centuries.

My parents moved away from Lincoln, Ill., two decades ago, when I was in college. I hardly ever get back there. But my mom still works in Lincoln, and it was to Lincoln I headed to meet her this fall, after returning to the U.S. from the Middle East.

More than 600,000 have been left homeless and hungry by the devastating storm. In response, humanitarian agencies are mounting the largest relief operation since the Haitian earthquake in 2010. The biggest challenge right now is getting the basics — clean water and food — to the hardest hit areas.

The non-profit International Relief Teams is working with aid groupsl to provide clean water and water purification tablets, rice and canned fish to devastated communities, including Bohol, in the central Philippines.

There are plenty of memoirs of China's Cultural Revolution written from the perspective of elite intellectuals. But Hong Ying's story is different; in her youth, the writer was the sixth child in a crushingly poor family. Novelist Karen Ma says Hong Ying's memoir, Daughter of the River is unflinching, unapologetic and incredibly powerful.

San Diego artists and musicians kick in to help local Burmese refugees. The community is trying to reunite families as the U.S. ends refugee status for Burma.

A controversial proposal to jack up the fees that the city of San Diego charges developers — which go into a fund for affordable housing — was tentatively passed Monday by the City Council on a 5-4 party line vote.