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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. picks more new vaccine advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, days before a two-day meeting to consider COVID and hepatitis B shots.

Los legisladores estatales de California concluyeron su sesión legislativa de 2025 el sábado, enviando cientos de proyectos de ley al escritorio del gobernador Gavin Newsom.

Trymaine Lee spent years reporting on the deaths of men who look just like him. His new memoir, A Thousand Ways to Die, chronicles the impact of gun violence in Black communities.

Europe is warming faster than any continent. That's speeding up glacial melt, which is already threatening Europe's largest rivers.

Social media influencers claim that using lotion with magnesium promotes sleep. But there's little evidence magnesium taken in this way is effective.

Prominent Democratic lawmakers and influencers are encouraging their fellow Democrats to embrace social media and online video to reach voters or risk being left behind.

Wherever you are in the writing process, submitting your work can be a helpful light at the end of the tunnel. But the world of literary magazines and small publishers is so expansive and diverse, it’s hard to know where and how to send your work out for publication. In this workshop with Dennis James Sweeney, author of "How to Submit: Getting Your Writing Published with Literary Magazines and Small Presses", we’ll talk about the landscape of literary magazines and small presses, strategies for achieving your publication goals, and how to navigate the vulnerability of sending out the writing you’ve worked so hard on. You’ll leave the class with next steps for submitting your latest piece of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, or hybrid work. This informational class will also include written reflection, group discussion, and Q&A time. Join us if you’d like company in the exciting but daunting process of sending out your writing. Visit: https://writeyourstorynow.org/classes-workshops/2025-06-14-how-to-submit-with-dennis-james-sweeney/ SD Writers Ink on Instagram and Facebook

Ready to expand your writer’s toolkit? This workshop dives into figurative language—similes, metaphors, personification, synesthetic language, and more—as powerful techniques to add flair and dimension to your prose. Through creative exercises and practice with reverse engineering examples, you’ll analyze figurative language on a technical level and study what makes it successful. Using what you learn, you’ll practice creating your own examples. Learning objectives: By the end of the workshop, participants will… Have a framework for developing their own figurative writing style Learn to how to analyze effective figurative writing Be able to identify different types of figurative writing techniques Ideal for creative writers of any genre who want to broaden their stylistic options and elevate key moments in their work. Visit: https://writeyourstorynow.org/classes-workshops/2025-06-22-beyond-the-literal-with-jamie-li/ SD Writers Ink on Instagram and Facebook

World’s First Dancing Advice Column Previewing in San Diego Saturday July 19 at 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. City Heights Performance Annex Bound for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025! "Best Worst Advice" is a bold, hilarious and deeply human experimental dance-theatre show created by rebellious women choreographers Anne Gehman, Emily Aust, and Erin Tracy who met and started making work together over a decade ago. Now in their 40s they’ve reunited, blending decades of performance experience, life lessons, and embodied wisdom into a show that literally moves with meaning. The Operators are the world’s first dancing advice-columnists who are radically celebrating bodily autonomy while offering antidotes to overwhelm, and the endless scroll of questionable internet wisdom. It’s intimate, absurd, and fiercely relatable. Tired? Yes. Retired? Not even close. "Best Worst Advice" runs approximately 50 minutes and is appropriate for audience members who are 16 and over. Warning: shows may contain strong language/swearing, nudity, and challenging or triggering themes. Audience participation is strongly encouraged. Bring your juicy questions and join The Operators as they relocate, protest, undermine, and go on the offensive, dancing the "Best Worst Advice" they can give!

Recommended for ages 2-5, this storytime program includes books, songs, games, and early literacy fun! A to-go craft will be provided at the end. Audience: Young children Location: Community Room Visit: https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/locations/mission-valley-library Mission Valley Branch Library on Facebook