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  • Members of the U.S. team pose for NBC cameras during the closing ceremony on Sunday.
    NBC Touts A Silver Lining In Historically Low Viewership For The Tokyo Olympics
    Average prime time viewership was just 15.5 million people, down from an average 26.7 million for the Rio Games in 2016. But NBC's broadcast ratings ranked second only to its Sunday Night Football.
  • Melvin Van Peebles at a 2018 film festival in Hollywood.
    A Giant Of Black Cinema, Melvin Van Peebles Dies At 89
    The independent film director was best known for Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
  • Total County COVID-19 Cases Cross 18,000 As Daily Count Reaches 500 Again
    San Diego County public health officials reported 560 new COVID-19 cases and nine deaths Thursday, raising the county's totals to 18,402 cases and 415 deaths.
  • Lockdowns have been eased in the United Kingdom, but now there's a new variant called delta plus emerging. Will it take off the way delta did?
    People wonder if they should keep calm and carry on in the face of delta plus variant
    A new coronavirus variant — known as delta plus — has cropped up in the U.K. There's concern it could be more dangerous than the highly contagious delta variant. What does the science actually show?
  • Helping People In Crisis
    San Diego County is seeking to make a sea change in how it handles people facing mental health crises. Also on KPBS’ San Diego News Matters Podcast: a new daily high of 38 COVID- 19 positive patients were hospitalized in Wednesday's data, single-use plastic bags reappeared in California at the end of April because of the COVID 19 pandemic and more local news you need.
  • The Intersection Of Racism And Health
    The coronavirus pandemic's disproportionate impact on Black and Hispanic communities has highlighted long-existing health disparities. Also on KPBS’ San Diego News Matters podcast: eighteen sailors were hospitalized Sunday with minor injuries after a fire broke out aboard a ship docked at Naval Base San Diego, about 136 of every 100,000 San Diegans are testing positive for COVID-19 and more local news you need.
  • Workers Weigh In On The End Of $600 Unemployment Benefit, Eviction Crisis Looms In San Diego County, This Weekend In San Diego Art Events
    The extra $600 a week unemployment benefit under the federal CARES Act has helped over two million Californians make ends meet. Now that it's ending, nonprofits and the state look to help fill the gap. We hear from two San Diegans on how the end of the extra benefit will impact their livelihoods. Local and statewide moratoriums have kept a wave of possible evictions on hold for months. With those moratoriums expiring in the coming weeks, thousands of San Diegans could end up on the street if legislators don’t act. In San Diego art events this weekend: TwainFest kicks off a virtual festival, stories inspired by art at Lux Art Institute, youth actors present a classic, a poetry workshop with Gill Sotu and the Spreckels Organ Society continues its weekly webcasts.
  • From left, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., and Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, alongside other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, speak in front of the Senate chamber about their support of voting rights legislation at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022.
    Voting bill blocked by GOP filibuster, Dems try rules change
    The vote was expected, but is still a setback for President Joe Biden and his party after a raw, emotional debate.
  • New Swine Flu Concerns Scientists
    In 2009, San Diego scientists were the first to report the strain of virus that became known as the H1N1 swine flu. Not as deadly as the coronavirus, it eventually killed some 285,000 worldwide. Now scientists are concerned by a new strain of the same virus which is spreading quickly in China
  • Commuters wait in line for public buses as they leave work in the business district on Aug. 27 in Beijing. China's Supreme People's Court has ruled that it's illegal for companies to subject employees to the practice known as "996," or working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. six days a week.
    Employers Can't Require People To Work 72 Hours A Week, China's High Court Says
    In recent years, several worker deaths have been linked to grueling "996" schedules, which are common in the tech industry. The label is shorthand for working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for six days in a row.
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