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The number of job openings in the U.S. topped 9 million in May, according to Labor Department. The number of people quitting their jobs eased slightly from April but remains high.

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.

Boston University neuropathologists said Phillip Adams had chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a degenerative brain disease found in many former football players.

The amendment will allow the city and its residents to increase housing supply in space already zoned for residential use, said Councilman Scott Sherman.

The FDA announced the Pfizer vaccine is the first in the U.S. that is now fully approved. Here's what that means for vaccine mandates and convincing vaccine-hesitant people to get vaccinated.

Data released Friday show the state has now regained nearly 72% of the 2.7 million jobs it lost in the early months of the pandemic, when Gov. Gavin Newsom imposed the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order in spring 2020 to slow the spread of the coronavirus

Several not-quite-right claims have continued to linger about abortion since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

To advance health equity, the state is requiring insurers that offer public option plans to collect demographic data on providers, including race and sexual orientation, raising privacy concerns.

San Diego County health officials reported a record number of 1,087 new COVID-19 cases Sunday, the highest one day total yet. Plus, the Port of San Diego has been working on an update to its master plan, which will set the vision for future development on San Diego’s waterfront. Also, President-elect Joe Biden will inherit President Donald Trump’s border wall construction and all of the lawsuits that come with it. In addition, Biden has pledged that on his first day in office he will end Trump’s “travel ban,” which bars entry for most nationals from several Muslim-majority nations, including Iran. And, Scripps Institution of Oceanography is planning to deploy 500 new robotic floats to study what’s going on underneath the waves as the planet warms. Then, if you’re cooking a Thanksgiving meal for the first time because of the pandemic, we have some tips for you. Finally, if you ask people in the city of Mexicali, Mexico, about their most notable regional cuisine, they won’t say street tacos or mole. They’ll say Chinese food. Editor’s note: During the Thanksgiving dinner at home interview that appears in this podcast our guest said that defrosted cooked turkey bones are poisonous. According to the US Department of Agriculture, It is true that undercooking a turkey can lead to serious food-borne illness, as can leaving leftovers out too long. But we can find no source stating frozen turkey bones, if cooked properly, are poisonous. If you have questions about food safety for your Thanksgiving dinner, call the USDA Meat and Poultry hotline at 888-674-6854. We regret the error.

The updated data were announced Thursday, the same day a new testing site opened at North County Lifeline in Vista — one of several new sites opened this week as demand for tests rises while the virus continues to surge.