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In light of national and local events surrounding the issue of purported police brutality against people of color, San Diego Police Chief David Nisleit and local elected officials announced Monday that the SDPD would immediately stop using carotid restraints as a use-of-force procedure.

Mexicans are sharing spectacular videos of bursts of blue lights seen streaking across the skies after a 7.0 earthquake rattled the country's Pacific coast on Wednesday.

Ketamine has shown promise in derailing suicidal thoughts among patients resistant to other treatments. The San Diego VA has started pulling veterans off the drug to treat them instead with a controversial nasal spray promoted by President Trump.

Get a first look, I mean, listen, to Troma Entertainment's latest film "#Shakespeare's Sh--storm." Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman talks with me about finally being old enough to play Prospero in his 100% Troma-tized adaptation of the Bard's "The Tempest." We also talk about being kicked off YouTube, starting a streaming channel, and surviving more than four decades outside Hollywood as a truly independent film studio. But be warned, this podcast contains potentially offensive material because, well, it's all about Troma, which specializes in gross-out, gore-filled, politically incorrect yet somehow endearing z-grade films. But if you don't know Troma, maybe don't listen. You've been warned!

An agreement with prosecutors spared John T. Earnest the death penalty in Thursday's sentencing. But the hearing gave victims and families their first opportunity to address the killer in San Diego Superior Court.

While major parts of the economy are reopening amid relaxing health measures, policies along the border-- first put in place during the pandemic-- remain extended indefinitely.

Local protests against police brutality continued yesterday. Also on KPBS’ San Diego News Podcast: The San Diego Police Department will cease choke holds as a method of restraint, members of San Diego's black community and allies called out the police response to protests this weekend, a group raises nearly $100,000 for vandalized businesses in La Mesa and more local news you need.

As demonstrators marched and chanted in downtown San Diego late Sunday evening to decry the in-custody Memorial Day death of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis, large numbers of people moved through the streets, smashing windows and breaking into stores.

More than 12,000 parents have signed a petition asking TikTok CEO Vanessa Pappas to introduce "mirror" accounts so parents can track how their kids are influenced on the platform.

Ketamine has shown promise in derailing suicidal thoughts among patients resistant to other treatments. The San Diego VA has started pulling veterans off the drug to treat them instead with a controversial nasal spray promoted by President Trump.