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The Turkana people and their southern neighbors, the Pokot, have been feuding for generations. But a spate of droughts in recent decades is exacerbating an age-old animosity, as they fight over the land's dwindling natural resources.

As children in the United States head back to school, many students in South Africa continue to face challenges, lacking even basic educational resources. Their struggle to pass a required graduation exam is chronicled in the new film, Testing Hope: Grade 12 in the New South Africa. Molly Blank, the film's director, is joined by student Mongamo Tyhalais to discuss the documentary.

The stagehands' strike on Broadway shut down more than two dozen shows over the weekend. Producers say the union forces them to hire people who do little or no work at wages that can hover around $100,000 a year. Union representatives say they are willing to offer some concessions.

Update: KPBS general manager Doug Myrland spoke about the cancellation on These Days . The last day of July marked more than the end of the month. It was…

The Roman Catholic Church in Poland and the Vatican suffered an embarrassment Sunday when the newly appointed Archbishop of Warsaw resigned. The reasons: revelations he had collaborated with the Polish secret police during the Communist era. Debbie Elliott discusses the story with John Allen, Senior Correspondent of The National Catholic Reporter.

of the title (and this is not really a spoiler considering how the book was promoted and what the trailers have revealed) is a kind of sea creature that looks like a cross between a dragon and a pleiseosaurus. And since the story is set in Scotland, the creature might be none other than the famed Loch Ness Monster.

One of the original Mercury Seven astronauts has died. Wally Schirra was the only man to fly in all three of NASA's early space programs — Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. He was 84.

On Tuesday, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito acknowledged a constitutional right to privacy and distanced himself from a memo he wrote two decades ago against the right to abortion.

A bill is being introduced in the House that would enact portions of the 9/11 Commission recommendations that haven't been voted into law. One provision would require screening all cargo that arrives at U.S. seaports.

President Bush visits the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans for the first time since late summer, saying the government has written a check for $110 billion — and now the challenge is getting that money to the people who need it.