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Kidney patient Steve Brown has been on dialysis at UCSD for nine years. March 14, 2017.

Quality Of Care For Kidney Dialysis Improved In San Diego County

More than about 468,000 people in the nation — roughly 5,000 in San Diego County — are in stage 4 or 5 kidney failure, or end-stage renal disease, and must go through an ordeal called dialysis.

Sen. Rand Paul says the House Republican health care plan is "Obamacare lite."

GOP Leaders Begin To Pitch Health Bill, Facing Skeptics In Both Parties

Two House committees will take up the replacement plan for the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, but many in the rank and file have doubts.

Vice President Mike Pence, seen here at a Feb. 24, speaking engagement in Las Vegas, was the highest-ranking administration official to attend the Gridiron Dinner on March 4.

Trump Skips Gridiron Dinner As His Staffers Get Roasted

At a time when tensions between President Trump and the press are as high as ever, Trump declined his invitation, instead spending the evening at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Georgia Democratic House candidate Jon Ossoff addresses supporters and volunteers at his Marietta office on Saturday.

Can Democrats Turn Activism Into Votes? Special Elections Might Be A Clue

A victory in a Delaware legislative race has Democrats enthused, and some think they can pull off an upset in a Georgia House special election, giving evidence of growing anti-Trump sentiment.

Inside Beijing's Gao'antun incinerator plant, garbage piles past the 25-meter (82-ft.) mark inside an arena-sized garbage container where engineers operate giant claws to sift through it.

The Burning Problem Of China's Garbage

China produces 520,000 tons of garbage a day. To get rid of it, the government favors burning it, which harms the environment. One answer: sorting garbage and recycling. But that's proved challenging.

Chance the Rapper accepts the award for Best New Artist during the 59th GRAMMY Awards, on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles.

Grammy Awards 2017: The Full List Of Winners

Nominated against Beyoncé in all three of the major categories, Adele won a surprise (even to herself) sweep: Record, Song and Album of the Year.

American writer, abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass edits a journal at his desk, late 1870s. Douglass was acutely conscious of being a literary witness to the inhumane institution of slavery he had escaped as a young man. He made sure to document his life in not one but three autobiographies.

Frederick Douglass On How Slave Owners Used Food As A Weapon Of Control

Hunger was Douglass' constant companion as a boy. As a young man, he escaped slavery and became a heroic abolitionist who revealed how food was a key tool in the immoral mechanics of slavery.

Review: Alison Krauss, 'Windy City'

Krauss' first solo album since 1999 shows off her intelligence and good humor in versions of classic songs that are delightfully down to earth.

Eero Saarinen with model and sketches of St. Louis’ Gateway Arch, ca. 1958.

AMERICAN MASTERS: Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw The Future

Airs Tuesday, December 27, 2016 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Students interview Arie Carpenter, a widow known simply and affectionately as Aunt Arie, on her front porch. She dispensed bits of wisdom such as "Livin' by yourself ain't all roses — and it ain't all thorns." Her stories inspired playwright Susan Cooper and actor Hume Cronyn, whose collaboration resulted in the 1982 Broadway production <em>Foxfire.</em>

In The Mountains Of Georgia, Foxfire Students Keep Appalachian Culture Alive

For 50 years, high school students in Rabun County have chronicled their region's disappearing traditions and mountain people, from blacksmiths to moonshiners, in publications and a living museum.

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