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The high school dropout rate for American Indians is almost twice the national average. Educators in Flagstaff have tried to turn that trend around. And they’ve had some success at a place you wouldn’t suspect -- the Coconino County Juvenile Detention Center.

A private school in Malibu Canyon supported by director James Cameron and his wife is set to go vegan. Meanwhile, Congress is debating whether to delay healthy school lunch rules for the rest of us.

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Told by those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists and a former mayor of New York, and featuring a rich trove of archival footage, this film revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout America, and homosexuality itself was seen as a form of mental illness.

In a new novel, David Gilbert tells the story of a famous, aging writer whose children do not feel as warmly toward him as his readers do. Gilbert wrote the book as his own father was getting older and his son was approaching his teen years.

One of the largest and potentially most damaging hurricanes to hit the East Coast in decades is heading slowly north. The storm is expected to pass right over New York City and into New England later this weekend. At least four storm-related deaths have been reported, and more than 630,000 homes and businesses are without power.

Across New York City, much of New Jersey and other places hit hard by Superstorm Sandy, power remains out today and the long, hard process of digging through debris and starting to rebuild continues.

Thousands of shoppers lined up at Macy's, Best Buy and other stores nationwide to buy everything from toys to tablets on Black Friday despite the economic downturn and some planned protests of the shopping holiday.

Saturday night on CBS in 1973: All In The Family, M*A*S*H, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show and The Carol Burnett Show. The pioneering comedienne was a capstone of American television for more than a decade. Now, a new DVD collection compiles 16 of Carol Burnett's favorite episodes.

Daily Report: WWII Hero Dies, Wounded Warriors, PTSD Legislation, Military Families Meeting, TBI Test, and more

When Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party's presidential nomination on Thursday, he presented the choice facing voters as one "between two different paths for America." Earlier, Vice President Biden made a vigorous defense of the administration's first term.