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An iPhone screengrab of Snapchat's speed filter, which allows users to record and share how fast they are moving. Snap told NPR that it is eliminating the tool.

Snapchat Ends 'Speed Filter' That Critics Say Encouraged Reckless Driving

The messaging app popular with teens is dropping a feature first launched in 2013. After several deadly car crashes involving the filter, Snap was the target of numerous lawsuits.

Snapchat Ends 'Speed Filter' That Critics Say Encouraged Reckless Driving

The messaging app popular with teens is dropping a feature first launched in 2013. After several deadly car crashes involving the filter, Snap was the target of numerous lawsuits.

3 late-summer books in translation that stand out individually

Iraqi poet Faleeha Hassan's memoir War and Me, Mexican novelist Brenda Lozano's Witches, and Uyghur novelist and social critic Perhat Tursun's The Backstreets have a few broad commonalities.

Spotlight on local tourism during National Travel and Tourism Week

Industry leaders and local officials gathered to assess the state of the travel and tourism industry in San Diego.

An iceberg is seen off Ammassalik Island in Eastern Greenland. Denmark, together with Greenland, will claim around 350,000 square miles of the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean, in an area around the North Pole.

Melting ice from Greenland will raise sea level 10 inches

Greenland has more than 120 trillion tons of ice, sometimes called Zombie ice, that's going to raise sea level globally by at least 10 inches.

4-year-old Max Martinez getting tested at the school district COVID-19 Testing Center in Chula Vista, Sept. 20, 2021.

San Diego County reports 819 new COVID cases, 12 deaths

San Diego County public health officials reported 819 new COVID-19 cases and 12 additional deaths associated with the virus in their latest data.

People walk past vehicles trapped in a heavy snowfall-hit area in Murree, some 28 miles north of the capital of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday.

In Pakistan, 22 die in subfreezing temperatures as their cars are stuck in heavy snow

Most of the victims died of hypothermia, officials said, as overnight temperatures fell to 17.6 Fahrenheit amid heavy snowfall at Pakistan's mountain resort town of Murree.

Nurses checked on a patient in a Jonesboro, Ark., ICU in August., as the delta variant sparked yet another surge of serious COVID-19 cases in the region. The pandemic has only added to a longstanding nursing shortage in the U.S., statistics show.

The U.S. needs more nurses, but nursing schools don't have enough slots

Across the country, hospitals are desperate for RNs and specialty nurses.

Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, reads her orders during a change of command ceremony held on the flight deck with the previous commanding officer Capt. Walt "Sarge" Slaughter looking on.

San Diego Navy captain becomes 1st woman to command US nuclear carrier

The USS Abraham Lincoln deployed this week from San Diego under the command of Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, the first woman to lead a nuclear carrier in U.S. Navy history.

Sarah Cameron Sunde will produce the finale to her "36.5: A Durational Performance with the Sea" on Sept. 14 in New York City.

This artist gets up to her neck in water to spread awareness of climate change

Sarah Cameron Sunde brings her tidal cycle performance to New York City to cap off a nine-year global tour to spread awareness of sea level rise.

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