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UC San Diego Health announced Wednesday it will join a second, national clinical trial to develop a vaccine designed to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, by the end of the year.

A California law taking effect Jan. 1 could make pork harder to find and more expensive. Voters in 2018 overwhelmingly approved the law, which requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves.

The West Virginia Democrat, who holds a crucial centrist position in the divided Senate, has offered a new series of voting and election provisions he said he'd support.

Formula E is an all-electric auto race — like Formula 1, but battery-powered. And some of the innovation seen on the race track could eventually make it to your driveway.

President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday.

With above-normal temperatures in the forecast, particularly in Northern California, the manager of the state's power grid issued a Flex Alert that will take effect Wednesday afternoon, calling for voluntary electricity conservation.

Author Kaitlin Greenridge joined KPBS Midday Edition on Tuesday to discuss the book. She will be speaking Saturday during the second weekend of this year's virtual San Diego Writer's Festival.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with South African political analyst and broadcaster Eusebius McKaiser about the roots of the looting and protests currently playing out in the country.

The federal agency that examined the twin towers' collapse on 9/11 is one of many that are probing what went wrong at Champlain Towers South.

In an exclusive interview with NPR, the IAC chairman laments the state of the movie industry, saying the rise in streaming has upended both the business model and the quality of films being made.