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President Biden wants to focus midterm arguments on the threat of political violence and risks to rights and freedoms. It's a strategy that worked for Democrats in a recent special election race.

Tanzanian authorities installed the high-speed broadband network on the slopes of Africa's tallest mountain last week and say it should reach the summit by the end of this year.

Latinos have been part of Hollywood since the silent film era but are still underrepresented in front of and behind the camera.

It's a summer of macro at Planet Money. Celebrate hot econ summer with our playlist.

Monday, July 25, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand with PBS Video App. In Maniitsoq, Greenland, the U.S. aluminum giant Alcoa Corporation has been planning to build a smelting plant for years. With the promise of economic renewal, this film follows the lives of the area's loyal aging population and its stymied youth. Pictured against immense, isolating landscapes, the people await their plant and with it, the nation's possible first step towards sovereignty.

As the Delta variant spike in Covid 19 cases continues, the move toward requiring proof of vaccination is growing. On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom said state employees and health care workers must submit evidence of vaccination or be subject to regular Covid 19 testing. Across the nation the VA hospitals will also require proof of vaccination from all health care workers. These latest moves are expected to open the flood gates for private companies to start asking employees for vaccination proof as well.

The San Diego City Attorney is proposing using outside legal counsel to help draft an updated ordinance that will create the city’s Commission on Police Practices.

Oceanside will soon have its first year-round homeless shelter. Meanwhile, state windfall money is giving a major boost to San Diego’s budget. Plus, the median home price here hits a record $750,000.

Councilmembers are set to vote on whether to keep using a system that detects and tracks when gunshots are fired. Advocates want to delay the vote - saying the technology is flawed and increases community distrust. Meanwhile, a new hospital opens up in North County specializing in rehabilitation for patients with strokes, amputations and spinal cord damage. Plus, veterans who served in Afghanistan say that the situation on the ground there is hard to understand if you haven’t been there.

Bannon had refused to testify or produce documents for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. His lawyers say he just made a mistake about the subpoena dates