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New San Diego Padres baseball team manager Bob Melvin, center, shakes hands with Padres CEO Erik Greupner as general manager A.J. Preller looks on during a news conference at Petco Park, Nov. 1, 2021.

Bob Melvin gets 3-year contract to manage Padres

The San Diego Padres announced the hiring of Bob Melvin as manager.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is embarking on an effort to draft legislation that would put guardrails around rapidly evolving artificial intelligence.

Congress wants to regulate AI, but it has a lot of catching up to do

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is trying to lead an effort to craft groundbreaking legislation to install safeguards around artificial intelligence. But lawmakers have a lot to learn.

A Journey in the Folk and Traditional Music of Iran

A Journey in the Folk and Traditional Music of Iran: Khosro Soltani: Persian Wind Instruments Mohammad Ghavihelm: Tombak and Daf Tickets can be accessed here. General Public: $25 | PCC members: $20 Free for UC San Diego students, staff and faculty.

Queen Titile Keskessa poses during an interview on Feb. 13 in Memphis, Tenn. Keskessa moved from Ethiopia to the U.S. at 15 and quickly realized that the racial landscape in the two countries would be quite different.

Reporter's notebook: The South is home to a growing Black immigrant population

What's it like to be a Black immigrant or refugee in America? We had a hundred or so conversations with people in Tennessee — one of the Blackest states in the country — to find out.

American artist Jon Bok's mixed media work, "Hobbs III," which is part of "This is Our Story" at the Mingei, opening Saturday, July 23, 2022.

San Diego weekend arts events: Folk art, 'Cabaret,' City Ballet, zine swap and more

This weekend in the arts: "This is Our Story"; Katherine Brannock; "Cabaret"; "Lempicka" closes; City Ballet's "Reimagined"; Libélula Books' zine swap; Encinitas Art Night; The Chicks; and lots of Comic-Con recommendations.

A fan of the late Rita Lee pays his respects at the public wake in São Paulo, Brazil. His sign makes reference to "Ovelha Negra" (or black sheep in Portuguese), a song from 1975's <em>Fruto Proibido</em>.

Rita Lee, Os Mutantes singer and Brazilian rock pioneer, is dead at 75

The singer and co-founder of the psychedelic group died at home in São Paulo.

E. Jean Carroll (center) departs the Manhattan courthouse where a jury awarded her $5 million after finding former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her in the mid-1990s.

A jury finds Trump liable for battery and defamation in E. Jean Carroll trial

Jurors believed that Carroll's allegation of sexual abuse in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s was more likely true than not. They awarded her $5 million in total damages.

E. Jean Carroll arrives at court in Manhattan on Monday.

A jury hears final arguments in E. Jean Carroll's claims against Trump

A lawyer told a jury Monday that Donald Trump should be held accountable for sexually attacking advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996 because even a former president is not above the law.

Jin Liqun, AIIB's president, addresses journalists at a Beijing press conference in 2016.

Tracking the impact of U.S.-China tensions on global financial institutions

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks the president of a China-led development bank about the impact of the friction between the U.S. and China.

Larry Jordan, 74, served 38 years in an Alabama prison and is in poor health now. One reason the U.S. trails other developed countries in life expectancy, experts say, is that it has more people behind bars and keeps them there far longer.

When a prison sentence becomes a death sentence

As U.S. life expectancy falls, experts say incarceration has serious health impacts. The U.S. has one of the highest rates of people in prison or jail in the developed world.

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