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With a presidential campaign and historic demonstrations unfolding, the country's youngest voters and activists are navigating the power of direct action versus electoral politics in real time.

Rural Yakima County, east of Seattle, has the most COVID-19 cases per capita among West Coast states. The largely Latino agricultural workforce helped secure the backbone of the local economy.

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Thursday, Oct. 30 at 9 p.m. and Friday, Oct. 31 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV. Do you believe in ghosts? Learn about the ghostly tales of San Diego's most historic haunts. Starting with the William Health Davis House, a former County Hospital where dozens died; the Whaley House in Old Town, said to be the most visited of all historic haunts; a walk-through of El Campo Cemetery; and finally the Del Coronado Hotel, where the ghost of Kate Morgan is said to roam the hallways.

Yes, the sweet potato is a nutritional giant. Who can resist when it's topped with marshmallows? From the NPR archives, a Kenyan researcher explains why the sight of the tuber makes her go "heck, no!"

Lyndsay Tucker, who works at a Sephora beauty store in San Jose, Calif., has tech billionaire Elon Musk's old cellphone number. So every day, she fields calls and texts intended for him.

Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. We'll visit Glencoe, Inverness, the Culloden battlefield — and keep our eyes peeled at Loch Ness — as we work up an appetite for modern Scottish cuisine and traditional folk music.

Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS app + YouTube. Glasgow, once an industrial powerhouse, offers a fun look at Scotland's vibrantly gritty urban side - full of edgy street art, trendy dining, and the striking architecture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Leaving town, Rick taps into Scottish passions as he tours historic Stirling Castle, enjoys a bagpiping lesson, samples a dram at the land's most beloved distilleries on the Speyside Whisky Trail, and struggles to lift the Manhood Stone at a Highland Games.

Activists occupied four of London's landmarks and thoroughfares and, on Wednesday, targeted the city's rail service. The organizers want a zero-carbon Britain by 2025.

Hotel rooms would be "ideal" for housing an overflow of evacuees from shelters practicing social distancing, but few towns have them lined up in the southeast, where coronavirus infections are raging.

Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Follow historian James Holland on his quest to understand how the use of amphetamines affected the course of World War II and unleashed the first pharmacological arms race.