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Horror explores themes relating to the brain be it about disembodied brains on a rampage or how someone can control your mind or what happens to your gray matter when you're zombified. Now COVID-19 is serving up real horrors about how it can affect the brain. UC San Diego Health neurointensivist Dr. Navaz Karanjia explains what the dangers are.

Small businesses are bleeding in San Diego County as the pandemic rages on. More coronavirus relief is likely in store, though, as congress works on another round of loans under the Paycheck Protection Program, known as PPP. NPR member station KPCC in Los Angeles mapped where loans were given out in San Diego and KPBS investigative reporter Amita Sharma found that businesses south of Interstate 8 had a tough time getting any money in the first round of PPP loans. San Diego News Matters is KPBS’ daily news podcast. Support the show: https://www.kpbs.org/

Young people are spending more time at home and on their phone, which makes them more vulnerable to human traffickers who lurk on social media.

Two aspiring women and scholars navigate parole, raising children, and self-healing to find acceptance, sisterhood, and hope for a new life in “Rebound,” a moving film debuting on KPBS on September 30 at 9 pm.

San Diego Unified School District is preparing to start off the 2020-21 school year with remote learning. However, children with learning challenges may be offered in-person sessions. Plus, 1986’s “Top Gun” inspired a boom in military recruitment. Will its 2021 sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick,” do the same despite the changing perceptions of warfare today? Also, this weekend in San Diego art events includes San Diego Festival of Books, surf rock duo Puerto livestreaming from the Casbah’s stage, The Rosin Box’s August Series and a tapestry by Carlos Castro Arias.

Negotiations on a huge COVID-19 relief bill are set to resume, but the path forward promises to be challenging. The Trump administration negotiating team and top Capitol Hill Democrats reported progress over the weekend even as they highlighted their differences.

California lawmakers say the state department responsible for paying out unemployment claims is failing Californians by making them wait weeks or months to receive benefits. Assembly lawmakers held a tense hearing Thursday with Sharon Hilliard, head of the state's Employment Development Department.

San Diego Unified School District's leaders and educators have announced they are planning an Aug. 31 remote restart to the school year during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of DACA recipients, COVID-19 cases surge in Imperial County, and how the Black Lives Matter movement is playing out on social media.

California's governor wants to know why the state power grid managers were forced to initiate rolling blackouts as a heatwave bakes the state. Also, after six straight days of a case rate of fewer than 100 positive COVID-19 tests per 100,000 people in San Diego, Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday said it was "very likely" the county would come off the state's monitoring list by Tuesday. Plus, California is ill-prepared to protect the nearly 2 million older Californians living in areas where wildfire is a formidable threat.