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Poder Latinx canvasser Humberto Orjuela helps Andres Navarro register to vote in a Presidente Supermarket parking lot in Orlando on April 20. New restrictions in Florida have made voter registration work more difficult for Poder Latinx and other third-party groups.

Groups that register voters are feeling besieged by new state laws

New Republican-backed laws in several states add large fines or criminal penalties for minor mistakes in voter registration work. As groups pull back, they're reaching fewer voters.

Rescue workers take Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot and injured, to a hospital in the town of Banska Bystrica, in central Slovakia, on Wednesday.

Slovak authorities charge 'lone wolf' with assassination attempt on the prime minister

Slovak authorities charged a man Thursday with attempting to assassinate the populist Prime Minister Robert Fico, saying the suspect acted alone in a politically motivated attack.

The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Louisiana's redistricting plan

A federal district court ruled that the new map drawn by the state legislature violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the Black vote. A group of conservatives challenged the legislature's map.

The San Diego skyline is shown from the San Diego Bay, July 3, 2021.

Port fights invasive algae as another patch found in San Diego Bay

The algae, Caulerpa prolifera, was discovered in the bay in September 2023 and additional patches have been found near Coronado Cays.

Angelica Popoca pours melted wax into a container. She recently quit her fulltime job to build her candle making venture. She now has more time to spend with her three children and enjoys running her own business in Waxahachie, Texas.

Latinas are succeeding, but feel pressured to playing traditional roles for women

Report from the Pew Research Center says Hispanic women in general continue to face pressure to play traditional roles, despite advances in educational attainment and entrepreneurship

A portion of De Anza Cove and a beach area is shown on March 8, 2023.

San Diego City Council votes to restore 143 acres of habitat, wetlands in Mission Bay

The De Anza Natural plan would also maintain space for camping and other recreational activities in the northeast corner of Mission Bay Park.

A sunny sky shines over downtown San Diego on July 25, 2020.

San Diego Foundation approves AANHPI fund to aid nonprofits

The San Diego Foundation has started an Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Fund to "support leadership in and the visibility of the local AANHPI community," it was announced on Wednesday.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom makes an announcement on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in San Mateo, Calif.

California to make $3.3 billion available for mental health, substance use treatment centers

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday the state will make $3.3 billion available by July for counties and private developers to start building more behavior health treatment centers.

A burial team in Liberia awaits decontamination after performing "safe burials" for people who died of Ebola during the 2014-15 outbreak. Strains of the virus are harbored by bats and primates. A new study looks at how human activity affects the transmission of infectious diseases like Ebola.

What's worse for disease spread: animal loss, climate change or urbanization?

Scientists are looking at the ways humans change the planet — and the impact that has on the spread of infectious disease. You might be surprised at some of their conclusions.

Fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone pills are flooding U.S. streets, but other street drugs, including methamphetamine and cocaine, are killing more and more people.

U.S. drug deaths declined slightly in 2023 but remained at crisis levels

Powerful synthetic opioids and drugs like meth and cocaine still flood U.S. communities, fueling historically high overdose deaths.

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