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The co-founder of the San Diego chapter of the Black Panther Party, died last month at 72. Trunnell Price helped start the local chapter while a student at SDSU in the 1960s. Meanwhile, California’s vaccine rollout has not been equitable, according to early data. And, a new seed library is helping San Diegans plant native plants.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his finance minister are being fined for attending parties prohibited during the pandemic lockdowns. Opposition members called on them both to resign.

The United Arab Emirates' long-ailing ruler, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, died Friday, the government's state-run news agency announced in a brief statement. He was 73.

The spate of cancellations arrived as air travel is rebounding from the pandemic, with strong demand for spring-break flights.

Regulators including the SEC are investigating a planned merger between a shell company and former President Donald Trump's social media startup.

A degree too warm, or a room too bright, all problems that could render a vial of Covid-19 vaccine ineffective at a time when shipment delays and shortages plague the distribution system. Meanwhile, after a suicide death at a COVID-19 isolation hotel last year, San Diego County paid a private company millions of dollars to take over operations. Our partners at Inewsource check out the progress. Plus, student loan forgiveness is a hot political topic these days as the student debt crisis deepens.

Monday, March 28, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV. Meet the women journalists of India's only all-female news network, who risk everything in a male-dominated world to uncover their country's political inequities.

Five states hold primaries Tuesday. The top race is in Pennsylvania, where the GOP Senate primary will be another test of Trump's influence, while Democratic voters seem to favor John Fetterman.

New data shows the median home price in San Diego County dropped by 2.9% last month, to $825,000.

The IRS is delaying the 2020 tax filing deadline until May 17. How will provisions in the latest stimulus bill will affect your taxes? Plus, Moderna has begun testing its COVID-19 vaccine in children under 12, another step to getting everyone protected. Then, San Diego’s freeways and public transportation were empty in the early days of the pandemic. Traffic and transit ridership are now recovering, but will they ever come back all the way? And, Carlsbad’s GenMark Diagnostics, developer of rapid COVID-19 testing kits, was sold for $1.8 billion — a testament to the San Diego region’s biotech industry innovation during the pandemic. Also, the controversy over how to safely move millions of pounds of nuclear waste from the shuttered San Onofre power plant is back in the headlines. And, efforts to improve the environment around the Salton Sea were widely expected to begin at Red Hill Bay in 2015 but the project remains undone. Finally, KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando speaks with Turner Classic Movies host Eddie Muller about contextualizing classic films that might be problematic and often downright offensive for contemporary audiences.