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The Trump administration has suggested bringing the U.S. Postal Service under White House control, and having mail carriers conduct the census. Here's what to know about the controversial ideas.

Levin visited Feeding San Diego, which stands to lose $1 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture funding.

Mary Mattingly is an interdisciplinary artist who cares deeply about water and believes in the power of public art. Mattingly founded "Swale", an edible landscape on a public barge in New York City. Recent public art projects include "Limnal Lacrimosa" in Glacier National Park in Montana; "Public Water" with +More Art in New York; "Vanishing Point" with Metal Southend and "Focal Point Gallery" in the UK. Mattingly has exhibited sculpture and photography at the Cuenca, Istanbul, and Havana Biennials; Storm King Art Center in New York; the International Center of Photography in New York; the Seoul Art Center; the Brooklyn Museum in New York; and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. She has received grants from the James L. Knight Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Art Matters Foundation, among others. Her work has been featured in Aperture, Art in America, Sculpture, The New York Times, Le Monde, and on Art21, and included in such publications as Nature – part of the Whitechapel/MIT Press Documents of Contemporary Art series– and Henry Sayre’s A World of Art (8th edition), published by Pearson Education, Inc. In 2022, a monograph of her work, What Happens After, was published by the Anchorage Museum and Hirmer Verlag. Co-sponsored by the Nature, Space and Politics working group of the UCSD International Institute, this lecture is introduced and moderated by Dr. Pinar Yoldas, an infradisciplinary designer/artist/researcher and Associate Professor and head of the Speculative Design Area in the Department of Visual Arts. Respondents: Joe Riley and Sarah Rose of the PhD Program in Art History, Theory and Criticism with a Concentration in Art Practice. Mary Mattingly on Facebook / Instagram

Homicides are falling dramatically in many U.S. cities, after a surge in 2020 and 2021. Analysts say a reinvestment in communities from local government after the pandemic's disruption is a key reason.

California lawmakers revisit a state audit that found California was unprepared to help people with disabilities escape wildfires.

The reports are from 2023, in states where abortion is banned. They contradict what doctors and researchers say is happening on the ground, raising concerns about data integrity.

Until recently, the long-running British show was too often content with iteration. Actor Ncuti Gatwa brought an unapologetic queerness to the character of the Doctor.

At CinemaCon, a yearly convention for movie theater industry leaders, cinema owners say they're experimenting with events to bring in customers.

In recent months, the list of the nation's top songs has been remarkably unchanging — Shaboozey has had the No. 1 song for 18 weeks — but this week, a brand new name makes a splash in the Top 10.

UC San Diego Health laid off 230 workers — about 1.5% of its workforce — across its clinics and hospitals last week. The cuts include many frontline workers.