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A Creative Borrowing Boom: Poway Not Alone In High-Interest Financing

The Poway Unified School District may be California’s poster child for exotic school bond financing, but it is by no means alone in San Diego County.

'Flats Are For Quitters': RuPaul Talks Drag, 'All Stars' And Identity Politics

Guest judges on this season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars include designer Marc Jacobs and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Host Jorge Meraz feeds the cute little monkeys at the Parque del Niño Jersey Zoo, Valle de Guadalupe, Baja Calif.

CROSSING SOUTH: Parque del Niño Jersey Zoo

Airs Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Monday, Feb. 11 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS 2

Trump Signs Law Giving States Option To Deny Funding For Planned Parenthood

The legislation rolls back an Obama-era rule that prohibited states from withholding certain federal funds from organizations that provide legal abortions.

CANADA - OCTOBER 01: Author - Kazuo Ishiguro (Photo by Rick Eglinton/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro Once Wrote A Screenplay About Eating A Ghost

Written in the '80s, The Gourmet is an absurdist satire exploring the politics of food and the hedonistic culture of consumerism that treats it as a recreational drug. It's still strikingly relevant.

Sam Friedman (Josh Gad) and Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) are young activist lawyers in the new film "Marshall."

San Diego International Film Festival Opens With Thurgood Marshall Film

Festival serves up multiple film tracts through Sunday

In Granite City, Ill., 500 laid-off steel workers are being called back to work following President Trump's steep tariffs that go into effect Friday on imported steel.

Illinois Town Tries Hard To Wean Off Of Steel

Residents of Granite City, Ill., are celebrating the new tariffs on imported steel, which are jump-starting the local economy. But they also worry about being too dependent on that steel mill.

An Indian villager wades through floodwaters in West Bengal on Aug. 23.

Local Aid Groups Are Key To Disaster Relief. So Why Are They Overlooked?

Community-based charities are at the front lines of the flood response in South Asia. But global charities get almost all the attention — and money.

A trainer with her dog and a toy. "Canine Soldiers" explores the intimate bond between military working dogs and their handlers-combat soldiers who make life-and-death decisions based on the instincts and behavior of the dogs who lead their patrols.

Canine Soldiers: The Militarization Of Love

Airs Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Thomas Sung. “Abacus: Small Enough To Jail” tells the little-known story of the only U.S. bank prosecuted after the 2008 financial crisis, and chronicles the Chinese immigrant Sung family’s fight to clear their names.

FRONTLINE: Abacus: Small Enough To Jail

Airs Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

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