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Prescription drugs prices rose this year for many drugs, though the hikes were not as steep on average as some past years.

Drugmakers hiked prices for hundreds of drugs in early January

January is a big time for drugmakers to hike prices. This year saw higher prices for 575 medications so far, including Ozempic, drugs for HIV, cancer and many others.

NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at one Walmart in Georgia over multiple years.

NPR shopped for 96 items at Walmart to track how prices are really changing

NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at the same superstore in Georgia, including eggs, T-shirts, snacks and paper towels. Here's what got cheaper over the past year, and more expensive.

Cleta Mitchell, head of the Election Integrity Network, speaks during a May 2024 news conference outside the U.S. Capitol to introduce the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who's at left.

Despite Trump's win, 'election integrity' activists still seek sweeping voting changes

Republican voters say they trust the 2024 election was administered well, yet pro-Trump conservatives are pushing some sweeping reforms to voting systems.

Samantha begins her New Orleans trip at City Park, enjoying chicory coffee and beignets from Cafe Du Monde.

SAMANTHA BROWN'S PLACES TO LOVE: New Orleans, Louisiana

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. It’s an all-new season of one of our favorite travel guides and this time one episode brings Samantha Brown back to Louisiana. She begins her New Orleans trip at City Park, enjoying chicory coffee and beignets from Cafe Du Monde. Biking down the Tammany Trace Rail Trail leads her to Abita Springs, where New Orleans’ famous beer is brewed. She also visits the National WWII Museum.

Benito Bautista and Emma Francisco introducing a film at last year's San Diego Filipino Film Festival. Oct. 3, 2023.

Couple brings Filipino storytelling to San Diego through film and food

Benito Bautista and Emma Francisco launched San Diego Filipino Cinema in 2018 and will be hosting the 4th Annual San Diego Filipino Festival in October.

Three works of art by Carlos Castro Arias from his forthcoming solo exhibition, "The Splinter in the Eye," are shown side-by-side.

5 art exhibits to see in San Diego this fall

Our top picks for visual art in San Diego this season: Roman de Salvo; Carlos Castro Arias; San Diego Design Week; "Picturing Health"; and a region-wide exploration of science and art in the Getty's PST ART initiative.

MCASD senior curator Jill Dawsey is shown standing near art from "For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability" in an undated photo. The works shown are Judith Scott's 1997 mixed media and string sculpture, "Untitled," and Jay DeFeo's 1989 series of graphite on paper, "Untitled (Reflections of Africa series)." Jill is wearing black pants and boots, a pink shirt, and a black cardigan. She has her hands tucked in her pockets, and she is looking at the camera and smiling slightly. She has brown hair and light skin.

Art, disability and learning to hold on

"For Dear Life" opens at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, featuring American art about disability, medicine and health from the 1960s until the onset of COVID-19. For co-curator Jill Dawsey, this one is personal.

Natasha Kozaily of Baby Bushka is shown in an undated photo.

A 7-year Kate Bush experiment comes to a close

San Diego's Baby Bushka is embarking upon their final tour and playing their final show in San Diego on Sept. 15. For the women involved in this highly theatrical "Kate Bush experience of your dreams," it was nothing short of life-changing. "I don't think any of us will ever be the same," said band leader Natasha Kozaily.

A record 24 million people now get Obamacare health plans. Will it last under Trump?

Enrollment in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans has grown every year of the Biden administration, leading to a record high rate of people with insurance.

Tilda Swinton plays a war correspondent who is dying of cancer in The Room Next Door. The film is based on the 2020 novel, What Are You Going Through, by Sigrid Nunez

Tilda Swinton thinks about death and says you should, too

Swinton plays a woman dying of cancer in Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door. "A life spent considering how we're going to spend our end is not wasted time," Swinton says.

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