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The City of San Diego and landowner D.R. Horton have begun tearing down makeshift migrant shelters in McGonigle Canyon on the edge of Rancho Penasquitos. KPBS reporter Amy Isackson has details.

Many San Diegan’s may not realize that undocumented people living in this community suffered the biggest loss in this firestorm. Eight people were severely burned in the Harris fire as they made the

American and Afghan officials will probably never agree on what happened in a remote village earlier this month, when up to 140 civilians were killed by what many say were U.S. airstrikes. But both sides agree that without the U.S. warplanes, the nearby capital of Farah province might now be in the hands of the Taliban.

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Refugee camps in Sudan's Darfur region are underfunded and desperately in need of supplies. Carlos Veloso, The World Food Program's Emergency Coordinator for the region, talks with Renee Montagne about camp life.

We'll hear about a long-time community farm in Southeastern San Diego that is caught up in red tape.

Hurricane Dean weakens after slamming into the Mexican coast as a Category 5 storm. The eye of the storm made landfall near Majahual, a popular port with cruise liners located about 40 miles east-northeast of Chetumal and the Belize border, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

Nawabi cuisine is part of a centuries-old Indian tradition, where dozens of spices are used and unexpected dishes are created. This involved style of cooking is a fading tradition in India.

Luis Alberto Urrea, one of today's most critically acclaimed writers, talks with us about his new novel "Into the Beautiful North," which is set in a Mexican village and in the Tijuana-San Diego border region.

While people of good faith dithered again about calling Christmas by its name, I made a list of Christmas travels with my wife Judith, among those of other faiths - Hindus and Buddhists included, most of whom seemed conscious of the day, and its associations for so much of the world.