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Public transit officials and supporters hold posters promoting Free Ride Day, Oct. 2, 2023.

Free Ride Day returns Oct. 4 to MTS and NCTD

Buses, trolleys and trains will be free all day on Wednesday, Oct. 4 to mark California Clean Air Day.

Between 400 and 700 people pass through San Diego County's migrant welcome center every day. The majority of them use San Diego as a temporary stop before moving on to a final destination somewhere else in the United States.

San Diego migrant welcome center provides needed services, but could close soon

San Diego County Supervisor Nora Vargas is touting the new county-supported center while asking the federal government to provide more funding.

Michigan judge rules yes to possible life-without-parole sentence for teenage shooter

A judge rules a life sentence without parole is possible possible for the teen who shot and killed four classmates at Michigan's Oxford High School in November, 2021.

Voters of color in Nassau County, N.Y., a segregated suburb of New York City, are waging an unprecedented redistricting fight under a state voting rights act, an emerging tool for protecting voting rights at the local level.

A voting rights battle in a New York City suburb may lead to a national fight

In one of the most segregated U.S. regions — New York's suburbs — voters of color are waging an unprecedented redistricting fight with an emerging tool for protecting voting rights at the local level.

In this April 16, 2007, file photo X-ray technician Martina Rosenow, right, and assistant medical technician Marianne Warnholz, demonstrate a mammogram screening process in Berlin.

Breast cancer is not a 'pretty pink disease'

October is recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and reminds people to get breast cancer screenings or to donate to breast cancer research and treatment.

As House Republicans bicker, the government shutdown threat grows

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is working to contain a revolt by hard-line members of his party that could threaten his job as speaker and a potential government shutdown.

In a still frame from video law enforcement officers investigate the scene of a shooting late last month in Burlington, Vt. The suspect is accused of shooting three young men of Palestinian descent who were attending a Thanksgiving holiday gathering near the University of Vermont campus.

For years, the FBI quietly stopped tracking anti-Arab violence and hate crimes

When the FBI developed its program to collect hate crime data, it included a category to track anti-Arab incidents. But this code was dropped, masking the scale of the problem.

Teresa Butler visits Trish and Glen Johnston at their home in Christchurch, New Zealand, to support Trish, 79, who gave up smoking four years ago. Trish is Māori and Glen is pākehā — a white New Zealander.

It's one of the world's toughest anti-smoking laws. The Māori see a major flaw

New Zealand has declared war on tobacco with a remarkable new law. The indigenous Māori population, with the country's highest smoking rate, has a lot to gain. But they have a bone of contention.

This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife. Alabama plans to put him to death by nitrogen hypoxia, an execution method that is authorized in three states but has never been used.

Alabama's upcoming gas execution could harm witnesses and violate religious liberty

Alabama plans to execute a prisoner using nitrogen gas. NPR obtained a Department of Corrections document showing the method may pose risks to others in the room and impede religious liberties.

People look out from a rooftop last week as displaced Palestinians who fled Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip set up camp in Rafah, farther south, near Gaza's border with Egypt.

Why Egypt doesn't want Palestinians in Gaza to cross the border

Hemmed in by Israeli forces and the Mediterranean Sea, Palestinians in Gaza seemingly have only one place left to go — across the border to Egypt. But Egypt is resistant to letting them in.

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