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"Marte Um (Mars One)" is one of the Sundance Film Festival features screening at Digital Gym Cinema at the end of January.

Digital Gym Cinema reopens with special Sundance programming

Micro cinema hosts festival films Jan. 28 through 30 at new downtown venue

Medical staff transport a patient from a COVID-19 ward to the intensive care unit to be put on a ventilator, at the Willis Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, La., Aug. 17, 2021.

COVID case counts may be losing importance amid omicron

The explosive increase in U.S. coronavirus case counts is raising alarm, but some experts believe the focus should instead be on COVID-19 hospital admissions. And those aren’t climbing as fast.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a media briefing at the Pentagon, Nov. 17, 2021, in Washington.

Navy blocked from acting against 35 COVID vaccine refusers

The injunction is a new challenge to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to make vaccinations mandatory for all members of the military.

In this Jan. 21, 2020, file photo, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif.

California lawmaker ends bill to limit intersex surgeries

State Sen. Scott Wiener said the bill does not have a viable path forward this year.

The Stollmeyer family work on used bicycles outside of their San Marcos, Calif., home to later donate to refugee families. December 30, 2021.

North County volunteers repair bikes for refugees

A group of volunteers in North County is helping those refugees in a unique way.

Members of Women of the Wall gather around a Torah scroll the group smuggled in for their Rosh Hodesh prayers marking the new month, at the Western Wall where women are forbidden from reading from the Tora.

Western Wall prayer site's future is in doubt under Israel's fragile government

Israel's refusal to recognize liberal Reform and Conservative streams of Judaism has long been a point of tension with American Jews.

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez rallies workers for the passage of Assembly Bill 5 she authored that would limit when businesses and companies could classify employees as independent contractors, Aug. 29, 2019.

Lorena Gonzalez resigns from Assembly, returns to labor roots

The lawmaker headed the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO, before being elected to the Assembly in 2013.

2 years after the U.S. killed Iran's Qasem Soleimani, tensions remain

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the impact of the U.S.'s assassination of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

In this Nov. 2, 2018, file photo, people walk past the Earl Warren Building that houses the California Supreme Court in San Francisco.

California court rejects early releases for violent crime

The high court ruled that the parole opportunity does not apply to prisoners serving sentences for a combination of violent and nonviolent felonies. That applies even to those whose primary offense is considered nonviolent under state law.

New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner, left, takes a pen from then-presidential candidate Joe Biden after he filed to have his name listed on the New Hampshire primary ballot on Nov. 8, 2019.

New Hampshire's longtime guardian of its early presidential primary is stepping down

Secretary of State William Gardner, who earned a national reputation as gatekeeper of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary, has held the office since 1976.

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