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In 1989, Iran's leader issued an edict that sentenced Salman Rushdie to death for writing the novel The Satanic Verses. Rushdie reflects on the fallout from that order — from the years spent in hiding to the alias he created to avoid detection — in a new memoir called Joseph Anton.

Claireece "Precious" Jones is living a nightmare: she's morbidly obese, twice impregnated by her father, mentally and physically abused by her mother. But just as her life seems entirely untenable, fate offers a way out — and slowly, with a mulish persistence, Precious starts to come into her own. (Recommended)

California has met the first target set by federal courts to reduce its inmate population as a way to improve health care in the nation's largest state prison system, prison officials said Tuesday.

When defending the heavy focus on curfew sweeps in neighborhoods like City Heights, a tactic we've been exploring lately, proponents often say that most violent crime happens during curfew hours.

A sampler of the many genres — garage, techno, house and bass music — that made a mark (and made us want to move) in 2012.

Airs Wednesday, June 22, 2011 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

The nation's high unemployment rate is straining many marriages, a new survey finds. At the same time, many unhappy couples say they feel trapped, unable to afford a breakup. Experts say that's a dangerous combination that can increase the risk of domestic violence.

A new bipartisan survey shows a surge for Mitt Romney in a key voter group following the first presidential debate Oct. 3. He leads President Obama in rural swing counties by 22 percentage points.

An artist who grew up in the east San Diego neighborhood of City Heights has turned that childhood experience into art. KPBS arts reporter Angela Carone says the work features the sounds of urban life in the 1980s, at the dawn of video games and hip hop.

Now for the Best Animated Film of 2010!