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A case of the coronavirus variant that led to a major outbreak in India has been detected in San Diego. Plus, a growing group of vaccine skeptics, appear to be changing their minds and getting the shot. Also, President Biden announced his administration would raise the nation’s refugee cap to 62,500 individuals after facing a blowback for his delay in lifting Trump’s 15,000 limit. And, as the first class of female Marines is set to graduate boot camp, they and their instructors say the time has come for continued co-ed training on the West Coast. In addition, we talk to one of the three educators within San Diego Unified who were honored for their excellence in teaching throughout a year of unprecedented change. Finally, it’s tough for kids with learning disabilities to get the help they need at school, and that the pandemic has made things even harder for them.

The first case of the Covid virus variant that has led to a major outbreak in India has been detected in San Diego. Because of the lag time between a positive test and viral sequencing, the variant was not detected until last week.

The pandemic’s impact on education had a profound effect not just on students and their parents, but on educators as well. Tuesday, three educators within the San Diego Unified School District were honored for their excellence in teaching throughout a year of unprecedented change.

Domestic issues like abortion and guns have followed President Biden abroad, where he's meeting with G7 and NATO leaders.

Lacy Crawford's is a searing story of injustice. Sexually assaulted at 15 years old, the author investigates her own past as society grapples with gender, power, and privilege - and the roiling depths of shame and guilt used to silence victims like herself. Crawford's 2020 book, "Notes on a Silencing," caused a storm of media coverage and an apology from her elite New England boarding school thirty years later. On September 30, the Coronado Public Library in partnership with Warwick's will host Crawford to discuss her book in the Winn Room. Admission is $40 and includes a luncheon and signed copy. Buy tickets at cplevents.org. Use credit card or PayPal. Proceeds benefit the Friends of the Library.

Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft are taking steps to curb Russian propaganda, but they don't want to be kicked out of the country and limit Russians' access to their platforms.

We asked people who immigrated to the United States what the day meant to them — and how their feelings about the holiday have changed since they first arrived.

Ongoing wars in, say, Yemen or Ethiopia get minimal attention compared with the media focus on the fighting in Ukraine. And there are ramifications on the humanitarian front.

Struggles in accessing and using rent relief programs in California, a San Diego lawmaker wants to give fast-food workers more of a voice in the industry, and how San Diego's largest newspaper plans to cover the upcoming recall election.

In the arts this weekend, we have art made by construction equipment, a virtual baroque concert, several art opening receptions in the Barrio Art Crawl, and a final week of a play that imagines Martin Luther King Jr's final night.