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Hannah Allen attends Hudson County Community College and is the mother of three children. "First you put your kids," she says. "Then you put your jobs, then you put your school. And last, you put yourself."

College is hard enough — try doing it while raising kids

More than 5 million college students are also parents. But many colleges do little to support them. Most don't even offer child care.

A man riding his bike through a homeless encampment in downtown San Diego, May 31, 2022.

San Diego leaders have mixed reactions to Supreme Court’s homelessness ruling

Some elected officials are calling it a victory for public safety, while homeless service providers say it criminalizes homelessness.

The palms of a patient with mpox during an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. The country is now seeing a dramatic spike in mpox — with a strain that is deadlier than the one that sparked the global outbreak in 2022.

Major mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a worry to disease docs

With a dramatic jump in cases — and a strain of mpox that is deadlier than the virus that went global in 2022 — specialists are scrambling to rein it in.

A protester with red paint on his hand marches through the streets after demonstrating outside the Israel Defense Forces headquarters on Friday in Tel Aviv, Israel. Earlier, the IDF had said its forces accidentally killed three hostages being held in Gaza when it mistakenly identified them as potential threats.

Israel's military says hostages waved a white flag before being killed by a soldier

The three Israelis held by Hamas were shot and killed after an Israeli soldier misidentified them as a threat as they exited a building in Gaza, according to a preliminary report by Israel's military.

Chloe Schauermann, 17, ASB President and a senior at Kearny High School, is shown in front of a mural at the school in San Diego, Calif., Feb. 14, 2024

FAFSA delays leave students in limbo, waiting on financial aid and college acceptance letters

Technical glitches and delayed data have left students in limbo.

A New York Medical Examiner's car is parked outside the Metropolitan Correctional Center where financier Jeffrey Epstein was being held in New York. Epstein committed suicide in prison.

DOJ watchdog finds 187 inmate suicides in federal prisons over 8-year period

The watchdog's reporting comes in the wake of several high-profile deaths in federal lockups in recent years, most notably the murder James "Whitey" Bulger and the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein.

Access to the abortion drug mifepristone could soon be limited by the Supreme Court for the whole country. Here, a nurse practitioner works at an Illinois clinic that offers telehealth abortion.

Abortion pills that patients got via telehealth and the mail are safe, study finds

The study looks at 6,000 patients who got abortion pills after an online appointment. It found that 99.7% of those abortions were not followed by any serious adverse events.

Pallet homeless sleeping cabins are on display in front of the San Diego County administration Building, Feb. 2, 2024.

San Diego County’s homeless sleeping cabins need service providers and land to operate

The San Diego region has tried a number of different temporary solutions for homelessness. Now, the county will try tiny cabins.

Ross "Coop" Cooper and traders at a recent Pokémon card convention.

'Gotta gift 'em all.’ A Pokémon YouTuber tries to grow the community through kindness

Ross Cooper, 33, got into trading Pokémon cards in 2018, but he's less interested in making money than he is in building the community. He finds joy in simply giving the cards away, mostly to kids.

Dry brush is seen in Proctor Valley, Calif. July 20, 2023.

Land deal protects critical San Diego habitat

Conservation groups have worked out details to buy a critical parcel of land in San Diego’s Proctor Valley.

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