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The Chula Vista city council chambers are pictured on Sept. 19, 2023 with the KPBS VoterHub branding in the top left corner.

Primary Election 2024: Chula Vista City Council races

Meet the candidates and learn what's at stake with KPBS' primary election guide for the Chula Vista City Council races.

"I'm not haunted by him, even in the most benign sense," Nick Harkaway says of his father, John le Carré. "I grieve occasionally. That doesn't go away. It just gets manageable."

After John le Carré's death, his son had the 'daunting' task to revive George Smiley

Nick Harkaway grew up hearing his dad read drafts of his George Smiley novels. He picks up le Carré's beloved spymaster character in the new novel, Karla's Choice.

Alex Stamos, the former director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, during congressional testimony in 2014. The research team Stamos led came under fire from Republicans, who alleged that their research amounted to censorship.

A major disinformation research team's future is uncertain after political attacks

The Stanford Internet Observatory studied how social media platforms are abused. Now, its top leaders are out and future funding is uncertain amid attacks on its work by conservatives.

Divers with the Coral Restoration Foundation swim over bleached staghorn outplants at Horseshoe Reef in the Florida Keys in August 3, 2023. A year after the worst bleaching event ever recorded, the coral reefs off the Florida coast are slowly recovering.

Florida’s coral reefs are still ailing but doing better

A year after the worst coral bleaching ever recorded, Florida's reefs are slowly recovering. Despite elevated ocean temperatures, scientists say this summer they didn’t see significant bleaching.

Dozens of tents are seen on a lawn inside the Columbia University Campus after students refused to take down the encampment by the 2 p.m. EDT deadline given to students protesting by Columbia President Minouche Shafik.

As student protesters get arrested, they risk being banned from campus too

Students continue to protest at campuses across the country, despite the risk of arrest. Some schools now threaten demonstrators with disciplinary action, while others promise the opposite.

A Dia de los Muertos altar outside the John F. Tavaglione Executive Annex in Riverside county in honor of those killed in the custody of Riverside Sheriff's Department deputies, on Oct. 31, 2023.

California jails are holding thousands fewer people, but far more are dying in them

Gov. Newsom pledged to address a rise in jail deaths. Since then, fentanyl overdoses and suicides have death rates at historic highs.

An infant receives a routine vaccination at First Georgia Physician Group Pediatrics in Fayetteville, Ga., in 2021. Infectious diseases experts say children didn't stay up to date on their whooping cough vaccinations due to decreased in-person care during the pandemic.

Whooping cough cases spike in the U.S., after people missed vaccinations during pandemic

Infectious diseases experts say many Americans fell behind on their whooping cough vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic, which they say has compounded the recent uptick in cases.

Ruling party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum addresses supporters at the Zocalo, Mexico City's main square, after the National Electoral Institute announced she held an irreversible lead in the election, June 3, 2024.

Claudia Sheinbaum to be sworn in as the 1st female president of Mexico

The 62-year-old scientist turned politician campaigned on a promise to protect an expanded social safety net and fight for the poor like her predecessor, but she faces many pressing problems.

Robin Morgan of Washington State University's Bread Lab works to prepare fresh loaves of whole wheat bread. Morgan is part of a team of scientists and researchers searching for ways to make whole wheat bread resilient to a warming world — and more delicious.

Can better bread be a climate change solution? These bakers think so

A team of scientists and bakers in the Pacific Northwest is searching for ways to make whole wheat bread resilient to a warming world — and more delicious.

Eleanor Stein, law and human rights professor at State University of New York, was among hundreds of students protesting the Vietnam War in 1968 on Columbia University's campus.

What a 1968 Columbia University protester makes of today's pro-Palestinian encampment

A college professor who protested the Vietnam War in 1968 compares her experiences with the pro-Palestinian protests currently happening at Columbia University.

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