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Bernardo Arevalo, presidential candidate with the Semilla Movement, shows his finger dyed with electoral ink after voting in the run-off presidential election in Guatemala City, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023.

Progressive Arévalo moves to decisive lead in Guatemala's presidential election

Outsider Bernardo Arévalo appeared to be the "virtual winner" of Sunday's election to be Guatemala's next president after voters made a decisive choice for change.

Voters braved a rare San Diego rain storm to vote in the border community of San Ysidro, Nov. 8, 2022.

How healthy is democracy in San Diego? Depends on where you look

As the world celebrates Democracy Day, we examined how some pillars of democracy are holding up in San Diego County.

In this image from video provided by Rebecca Barger, festival-goers are helped off a truck from the Burning Man festival site in Black Rock, Nev., on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023.

Burning Man festival organizers lift driving ban and allow people to leave

Organizers of the Burning Man festival lifted a driving ban on Monday as muddy roads that had stranded thousands of attendees in the Nevada desert had dried up enough to allow people to begin leaving.

Garland names special counsel in Hunter Biden investigation

David Weiss, a Trump appointee as U.S. attorney who was retained during the Biden administration, has been investigating Hunter Biden since 2019.

Newspapers with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by Iran's morality police, are seen in Tehran, Sept. 18, 2022.

In Iran, women's resistance defies state clampdown a year after Mahsa Amini's death

The death of a young woman in Iranian morality police custody sparked months of protests and a violent crackdown by the government. A year later, a more subdued defiance endures.

Twenty years after 9/11, the first responders who rushed in to save lives at the World Trade Center suffer higher rates of cancer than the general public. And many have died of cancers linked to the exposure to toxins in the air. But research suggests they're surviving at higher rates too.

9/11 First Responders Face A High Cancer Risk But Are Also More Likely To Survive

The cancer risk is linked to exposure to toxins at ground zero. But the group is also more likely than the general public to survive, perhaps because of the comprehensive care they receive.

Port of Entry

These are cross-border stories that connect us. Border people often inhabit this in-between place. From KPBS and California Humanities, “Port of Entry” tells personal stories from this place — stories of love, hope, struggle, and survival from border crossers, fronterizxs, and other people whose lives are shaped around the wall. Rooted in San Diego and Tijuana, we are a transborder podcast for transborder people. We live life on la linea.

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<em>The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth</em> by Elizabeth Rush

An author's journey to Antarctica — and motherhood — in 'The Quickening'

In The Quickening, author Elizabeth Rush grapples with what it means to have a child in the midst of a changing climate.

President John F. Kennedy delivers the commencement address to the graduating class of 1963 at San Diego State College.

60th anniversary of President Kennedy's trip to San Diego

The former president arrived on June 6, 1963, with two major tasks to accomplish in San Diego.

Kurt—the world’s first successfully cloned Przewalski’s horse—is thriving at his home at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and learning the language of being a wild horse from Holly, a young female of his own species on Sep. 15, 2022.

Cloned horse could secure future for endangered species

A cloned horse living at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park could play a crucial role in helping an endangered wild horse species survive.

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