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A Día de Los Muertos altar honoring those who passed in ICE detention centers at Otay Mesa Detention Center on October 28, 2021.

Día de los Muertos vigils to honor those who died in ICE detention

Community groups are hosting the vigils across California. San Diego's is being held outside the Otay Mesa Detention Center.

Kuwaiti trans woman got 2 years in prison for 'impersonating the opposite sex'

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with activist Badriyyah Alsabah about Maha Al-Mutairi, a trans woman in Kuwait who was sentenced to two years in prison for "impersonating the opposite sex."

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pictured in an April 2020 photograph.

California governor cancels trip to UN climate conference

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has suddenly canceled his trip to the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Traffic on Interstate 5 freeway at Sea World Drive on Nov. 24, 2020.

SANDAG transportation plan takes carrot-and-stick approach to climate action

Updates to the agency's regional transportation plan include a goal of making public transit free by 2030.

Marge Loennig, 87, says her hometown of Baker City, Ore. has become divided during the Covid-19 pandemic, a far different time than during the polio crisis when she was younger.

Vaccinated seniors navigate life in mostly unvaccinated rural America

Vaccination rates in much of rural America remain low. But there's one consistent holdout demographic: seniors, many of whom remember lining up eagerly as children to get the polio vaccine.

President Biden shakes hands with Pope Francis as they meet at the Vatican on Friday.

Biden, Pope Francis discuss climate change and global vaccine sharing

President Biden's meeting at the Vatican with the pope is one of several gatherings scheduled with global leaders over the next week.

"Some of the work is deliberately remaining outside of the structure," says musician and advocate Lilli Lewis of the efforts of Black musicians to make it in country and roots music industries. "We want to center different values and it's really difficult to do that from inside." Lewis just released a new album called <em>Americana.</em>

New roots: Black musicians and advocates are forging coalitions outside the system

The mostly white country and folk music industries remain frustratingly difficult for Black musicians to enter. During one of Nashville's biggest events, one group envisioned a new pathway in.

Like many seniors, William Stork of Cedar Hill, Mo., lacks dental insurance and doesn't want to pay $1,000 for a tooth extraction he needs. Health advocates see President Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to provide dental coverage to people like Stork who are on Medicare. An unlikely adversary: the American Dental Association.

Getting dental coverage added to Medicare faces pushback from some dentists

Without dental insurance, William Stork has put off getting his rotten tooth pulled; Medicare doesn't cover the $1,000 procedure. Dentists can't agree on whether all seniors should get that benefit.

A San Diego Mesa College building is shown, May 16, 2018.

San Diego Community College program to waive thousands of students' debt

The San Diego Community College District is forgiving $3.9 million in student debt for thousands of students.

House climate crisis chair says spending plan is 'transformative,' despite cuts

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Rep. Kathy Castor, D-Fla., who chairs the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26.

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