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Advocates for prisoners have long argued that confinement conditions in prisons violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. On Tuesday, they made their case before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, complete with a replica prison cell in the hearing room.

The operator of California’s troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant told state regulators the damaged reactors may restart by the end of the year, according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Press.

A University of Chicago professor won a share of the Nobel Prize in physics Monday. Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. citizen, shares the prize with two Japanese scientists. Nambu gets half the prize for the discovery of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.

Who says books are doomed? Photos celebrate not only books but also the shelves we put them on.

Young Stars Talk About Acting In A Supernatural Love Story

Much of what Americans learned from the news media Friday about the events in Newtown was wrong. Journalists know early accounts of crisis events are often misleading and incomplete, but often are compelled to pursue them without waiting for authoritative confirmation.

Airs Saturdays, Feb. 16 - 23, March 30, April 6-27, May 4-25, 2013 at 1 p.m. on KPBS TV

Why Don't They Just Say No?

Many Rural Veterans Still Go Without Treatment

"Superior Donuts" may not be profound stuff, but it is a funny, touching play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts. Encinitas actor and Old Globe veteran Robert Foxworth talks about his role as the owner of an uptown Chicago donut shop.