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Even though the public largely supports it and the Supreme Court has upheld it, just 27 people have been executed this year, almost the same number of fatalities from lightning strikes.

Private groups keeping tabs have wildly different numbers, ranging from 353 to four. There's no consensus on a definition, and advocates point to the data that supports their arguments.

Travelers at Lindbergh Field will soon come face-to-face with 50 refugees and immigrants living in San Diego through a mural by The AjA Project.

All schools in the Lakeside Union School District were in lockdown this afternoon while police responded to a nearby shooting that left one person dead.

The mass shooting this week in San Bernardino has again rocked the national psyche. KPBS asked you to share your reaction to the incident. Here's what you said.

An attack at a Southern California social services center Wednesday became the latest mass shooting in the United States.

The protest began around noon Sunday as a march near the Albuquerque Police Department's downtown headquarters. It spread as it continued into the night; police used tear gas to disperse crowds.

The decision by a Belfast High Court judge puts pressure on lawmakers to reconsider the near-total ban on pregnancy termination.

The city braces for the trials of six police officers charged in the death of the unarmed black man who suffered a fatal spinal injury after his arrest and transport in a police van last April.

A sailor was shot and killed aboard a guided-missile destroyer USS Mahan before Navy security guards killed the suspect.