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Advances in artificial intelligence, many coming from California companies, have led to new possibilities for life and work. However, concerns about its potential power persist as tech companies expand its capabilities.

Former Caltrans executive Jeanie Ward-Waller shares her story of getting fired after speaking out against a freeway project near Sacramento. She says Caltrans is driven by a "mindless impulse to add more freeway lanes," and that reform-minded people at the agency are often sidelined and dismissed.

San Diego voices calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war are also demanding action from U.S. Senator Alex Padilla. In other news, Rady Children’s Hospital allegedly secretly surveilled a bedridden teenager and her parents using at least one hidden camera in a hospital room. Plus, what you can expect at the 15th annual San Diego Beer Week happening now in the county.

This weekend the annual Pacific Islander Festival returns for the 30th anniversary celebration.

The streaming platform's convention was in Las Vegas last year, but San Diego has been its favorite home.

Black mothers and babies face higher rates of childbirth-related complications or deaths than any other race or ethnicity. San Diego County is expanding resources to help bring those rates down.

Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Judy Woodruff will moderate a panel with Katherine Cramer, a leading political scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, longtime political commentator Charlie Sykes, and Theodore Johnson, a Washington Post opinion contributor. The audience will be comprised of Wisconsin residents from around the Milwaukee area and across the political spectrum.

Speaking in Atlanta Friday, Vice President Harris called tougher abortion laws “immoral” and slammed Republicans for what she called “longstanding neglect” around maternal mortality.

Springfield has become a lightning rod in a pitched battle over immigration. Meanwhile, Dayton has welcomed immigrants for more than a decade, to fill vacant jobs and revitalize old neighborhoods.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 23, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. 2009 Atlantic City finds reevaluated in today’s market including a Walt Whitman inscribed Memoranda, 1906 – 1909 Buffalo Bill & Pawnee Bill posters, and an 1870 Cornelius Krieghoff oil painting. One is updated to $150K-$250K!