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Jessica Calix stands on the steps of her RV on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024.

She’s still recovering from the January floods. But like most survivors, she doesn’t qualify for local funds

The San Diego Housing Commission's flood recovery program is limited to people still using county hotel vouchers on May 23.

There's a severe kidney shortage. Should donors be compensated?

More than 90,000 people in the U.S. are waiting for a kidney transplant. But a kidney shortage means many die on the waitlist or become too sick for a transplant. A new plan would compensate donors.

Unredacted documents show TikTok is aware of the dangers caused by its app.

TikTok executives know about app’s effect on teens, lawsuit documents allege

In communications newly revealed, TikTok executives discuss being aware of the harms caused by their app. TikTok officials were warned of the app’s dangers to minors.

The California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus announces legislation at a press conference on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, to ban school districts from forcing schools to notify parents if their child requests to change their gender identification in Sacramento, Calif. The California Senate has approved a bill, Thursday, June 13, that would ban school districts from forcing teachers to notify parents if their child asks to go by a new pronoun at school.

California Senate approves ban on schools notifying parents of their child's pronoun change

The legislation applies to any policies that require school staff to disclose a student's gender identity or sexual orientation to anyone else without the child's permission.

How AI-generated memes are changing the 2024 election

Donald Trump has repeatedly shared AI-generated content on social media in the latest example of how artificial intelligence is showing up in the 2024 election.

This illustration shows how the thin film of sensors could be applied to the brain before surgery,

This new brain-mapping device could make neurosurgery safer

A flexible film bristling with tiny sensors could make surgery safer for patients with a brain tumor or severe epilepsy.

Many women experience pain with the insertion of an IUD or intrauterine device used for birth control. Doctors can do more to manage that pain, according to new recommendations from the CDC.

IUD insertions can hurt. The CDC advises doctors to do more to reduce the pain

Women have been complaining that doctors don't warn them how much an IUD insertion can hurt — or offer pain relief. Now the CDC is recommending that doctors do more to help.

A magnification of the head of a midge larva. Midges — biting flies — and mosquitoes are spreading the Oropouche virus in Latin America, which is reporting higher numbers in 2024.

Oropouche virus 101: A guide to a little-known virus that's raising concern this year

The virus has been confined to certain areas of the Amazon but is moving into new turf as climate change enables the insects that spread it to spread out. Here's what we know.

14 pro-Trump electors linked to efforts to reverse his 2020 loss are back for 2024

The return of 14 Republican presidential electors linked to efforts to reverse Donald Trump's 2020 loss raises questions about what they will do if Trump loses again in their states.

The Federal Communications Commission announced its plans to launch a new nationwide alert code for missing and endangered Indigenous people who do not fit the criteria for an Amber Alert or Silver Alert. Here, family and friends of the missing and murdered march around the California State Capitol at the second annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Summit and Day of Action in Sacramento, Calif., on Feb. 13.

FCC adopts an alert system for missing Indigenous people

The agency announced it is launching a new alert system similar to Amber Alerts for missing children. California and some other states have already adopted alerts for missing Indigenous persons.

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