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While the Ganges is India's most worshipped body of water, it is also the dirtiest.

Will Giving The Ganges Human Rights Protect The Polluted River?

A court in India declared its holiest river is entitled to the same rights as a person that would include the right to sue polluters. Still, many think the divine waters are unimpacted by pollution.

President Trump meeting with state and local officials on school violence Thursday, including Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Trump Appears To Read From The NRA's Script Hours After The Gun Lobby Chief's Speech

The president held another meeting on the subject of school safety after last week's after 17 people were killed last week in a shooting at a Florida high school.

Aerial view of the Seven Seas Explorer cruising in the Mediterranean Sea.

NOVA: Ultimate Cruise Ship

Airs Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 at 9 p.m. & Sunday, Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV + Dec. 16 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2

Walkers attack rebel forces in "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."

Spoiler-Free Fan Reaction To 'The Last Jedi'

New 'Star Wars' sequel gets the mythology right and back on track

Mel Brooks interviewed in "The Last Laugh."

INDEPENDENT LENS: The Last Laugh

Airs Monday, April 24, 2017 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., executive producer, host and writer of FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season 4, premiering Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 at 8 p.m. on PBS.

FINDING YOUR ROOTS: Season 4

Airs Tuesdays, Oct. 3 - Nov. 21 and Dec. 12 & 19, 2017 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

James Mattis speaks after his ceremonial swearing-in as secretary of defense on Jan. 17. In the Trump administration, Mattis and the Pentagon appear to have been given a freer hand.

The U.S. Is Ramping Up Military Engagement, Which Could Be A Risk For Trump

President Trump seems to have given the U.S. military a freer hand — but without apparent diplomatic or political strategies to accompany the increased military engagement.

The Navajo Generating Station located on the Navajo Indian Reservation, near Page, Ariz.

Navajo Workers At Coal-Fired Power Plant Brace For Its Closing

The largest coal-fired power plant in the Western U.S. will shut down 25 years earlier than expected. Environmentalists are celebrating, but hundreds of Navajo workers there are devastated.

Carlsbad City Hall as seen on Aug. 25, 2015.

Carlsbad, North County Cities Weigh Energy Collaboration

The city of Carlsbad may consider joining with other North County cities to explore a different energy future. A workshop introduced residents to the concept of “community choice aggregation.”

Escaping A World On Fire In 'Exit West'

Mohsin Hamid's new novel imagines a country, never specified, swollen with refugees from an ongoing conflict — and a series of mysterious doors that appear, offering escape, but also displacement.

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