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NPR spoke with Appalachian fiction and nonfiction writers about this moment and how they are building a tapestry of what they know as home.

The novel is an ambitious project, written by 36 authors yet achieving a unified voice of sorts, as every character narrates their story simply, casually, allowing themselves digressions and asides.

Premieres Monday, Aug. 19 - Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS app. Tonight: In part 1 of a two-part interview, legendary Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein reflect on their early careers and how they came to report on the Watergate scandal that ultimately led to President Nixon's resignation 50 years ago.

Unionized pediatric nurses have ratified a new three-year contract, avoiding a planned five-day strike beginning Monday.

NPR was able to produce depictions that appear to show ballot drop boxes being stuffed and of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump holding firearms.

LIVE at the Howard Brubeck Theatre! Back on Stage and In Person! Palomar Performing Arts Proudly Presents CONCERT HOUR Every Thursday at 1 p.m. Emilia Lopez-Yañez is an award-winning singer and oboist. Raised in a musical family, Emilia began performing at a young age and proceeded to continue her musical journey professionally. After earning her Bachelor’s Degree at Chapman University in both vocal and oboe performance, she went on to receive her Masters in oboe performance at the University of Southern California while simultaneously starting a career as a freelance performer. Lopez-Yañez has performed up and down the west coast with the Pacific Symphony, Bay Philharmonic, San Diego City Ballet Orchestra, and Palimpsest, in addition to international performances in Mexico, the Czech Republic, and India. As a Grammy member, Emilia has collaborated on projects with international artists Dan Aykroyd, Julian Lennon, Ricky Kej, Rupam Sarmah, and Allan White of YES. She was the featured oboist on the Chill instrumental single, Distorted Time which charted on the Billboard Charts. Through these recordings, she hopes to expand the musical genres in which oboe can be found, including Jewish-Indian fusion, Chill, House, and Children’s Music. Emilia is an adjunct faculty member at Palomar and Mira Costa Colleges and maintains a large private teaching studio. Ruth Weber has performed internationally as a pianist and been an accompanist/coach with numerous organizations including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, Opera Aguascalientes, and California State University, Northridge. She was a recording artist with the Music-Minus-One division of the Marantz Corporation, and an Artistic Director/coach for operatic productions presented by Jean Will Presents. Ms. Weber is the director of the award-winning and Billboard charting San Diego Jewish Men’s Choir, and an accomplished composer whose music has won the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, the Global Peace Song Awards, the Shalshelet Music Festival, the Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and more. Her compositions have appeared on recordings, in films, in print music with Alfred and Hal Leonard publishing companies, and have been performed by the Omaha, Virginia, Rochester and Nashville Symphonies. Ruth is presently the Applied Music Coordinator and an adjunct faculty member at Palomar College in addition to teaching music courses at S.D. Miramar College.

About the exhibition: Unconscious Research features paintings and sculpture in which Takal explores exterior and interior expressions of the self. Predominantly working with oil on canvas, the paintings represent a shift in her work as she fully embraces the elemental language of abstraction, while her sculptural works showcase a collection of more linear and legible subjects. A Rolodex piece will be included in homage to the Athenaeum’s card catalogs, inviting visitors to peruse lists of personal feelings, collected from Takal’s friends and colleagues over the COVID-19 pandemic. Takal’s interests in the dissonance between our inner and outer consciousnesses and our human attempts to organize ourselves within that space are highlighted in this showcase of collective emotions and the inner workings of her artistic practice. About the artist: Marisa Takal (b. 1991, Montclair, New Jersey) received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2013. She has shown in numerous solo, duo, and group shows at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; White Columns, New York; Page Gallery, New York; Del Vaz Projects, Santa Monica; Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles; Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, New York; Nicodim Gallery, New York; Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River; Jeffrey Stark, New York; and Loyal Gallery, Stockholm. In 2016, she was named the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Award and the Stanley Hollander Award. This is the artist’s first exhibition in San Diego. Related events: Opening Reception: Friday, April 19, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Gallery Walk-through: Saturday, April 20, 2 p.m. Artist Talk: Tuesday, June 11, 6 p.m. reception/6:30 p.m. talk Related links: Athenaeum Music & Arts Library: website | Instagram | Facebook

The band was behind such hits as “Once Bitten Twice Shy,” “The Angel Song” and “Rock Me.”

In the latest salvo in the fight over the hit app’s future in the U.S., lawyers for TikTok say the government’s push to ban TikTok is unconstitutional and lacks proof that TikTok is a real security risk.

The Harris campaign says she'd give families $6,000 when they have a new baby, and would restore the pandemic-era child tax credit, too. It's part of an economic plan focused on the cost of living.