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The passenger flight carrying Roman Protasevich, the former editor of an opposition social media channel, made an emergency landing after reports of a bomb on board. No explosives were found.

Today on San Diego news Matters: Local Faith leaders come together to demand an end to police brutality. We have the third and final installment of our investigative series on Police Use of Force. And from our KPBS film critic: a review of an old-new movie, PBS’ American Playhouse ‘The Killing Floor’ (1984).

A workplace investigation was underway Friday into a Valhalla High School security staffer's actions while breaking up a student fight at the eastern San Diego County campus this week — notably, kneeling on a Black teen's neck while detaining her.

More than 24 hours after a fire started on the USS Bonhomme Richard at Naval Base San Diego, the blaze is still raging. Officials are monitoring the air quality and advising residents to stay indoors where smoke is present. Plus, with the start of peak wildfire season, we check in with Cal Fire about how the COVID-19 pandemic may change the way fires are fought. Meanwhile, the pandemic continues to highlight long-existing health disparities in the Black and Hispanic communities. We trace back some of that history. Also, Border Patrol agents gave an asylum-seeking mother a harrowing choice: give her newly U.S.-born child to social services or return together to Mexico while her asylum case winds through U.S. courts. Finally, Comic-Con had to cancel its annual convention but it is still giving fans a taste of the action, all for free at home.

Fast-rising home prices are creating opportunities for some longtime Black homeowners. Those high valuations can also raise big questions about the best way to tap into that wealth.

It’s been an extraordinary week around the country and here in San Diego, as we’ve seen police take action against largely peaceful protests and some long-held police tactics begin to crumble in the face of public outrage.

Advocates for nursing home residents say there’s a connection between poor safety records and the number of COVID-19 cases, and they are calling for more oversight. Meanwhile, industry representatives say there is no correlation.

We’ve talked a lot on Midday Edition about what needs to change so tragedies like what happened to George Floyd stop happening. It’s not just about changing police practices but also about examining our own private biases.. and teaching our children about racism and bias. What are schools doing to raise self awareness ? The most common program in San Diego County schools is called No Place for Hate offered free by the san diego chapter of the anti defamation league.

It's not academic for University of San Diego sociology professor Cid Martinez, who studies the relationship between urban poverty, policing and gun violence in California.

San Diego Unified School District’s plan is to open full-time, in-person learning this fall, and also offer parents who don’t feel comfortable sending their kids to school a distance-learning option. Also on KPBS’ San Diego News Matters podcast: Under intense pressure to defund the police, San Diego City Councilmember Monica Montgomery responds to criticism over her vote to increase the police department budget and more of the local news you need.