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  • 'A Train Wreck In Slow Motion': San Diego VA Takes Suicidal Vets Off Treatment 2
    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.
  • With the help of Margaret Costantino of the Center for Refugee Services, a group of Afghans who have resettled in San Antonio fill out forms with the names of their family members in Afghanistan.
    With Few Options Left, Afghans Who Helped U.S. Troops Hope For ‘A Miracle’ To Save Their Families
    Now that American troops have left Afghanistan, Afghans in the U.S. face long odds as they try to help their family members escape the Taliban.
  • Trump Administration’s ‘Unprecedented’ Asylum Restrictions Look To Outlast Pandemic
    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.
  • San Diego Protests Persist
    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.
  • The Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization are among the groups that have warned against the use of ivermectin (shown here in India) in treating COVID-19 patients.
    An Ohio Judge Reverses An Earlier Order Forcing A Hospital To Administer Ivermectin
    Doctors at West Chester Hospital were forced to give ivermectin to a COVID-19 patient after his wife went to court. A judge has reversed the order, citing lack of medical support for the treatment.
  • First Look: Troma Takes On The Bard
    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!
  • San Diego-Area Neighborhoods Clean Up Following Weekend of Violent Protests
    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.
  • People opposed to COVID-19 vaccines often embrace ivermectin, a drug that's been touted as an effective prevention and treatment for COVID-19, which they think is not getting the attention it deserves. Here, an anti-vaccination protester takes part in a rally against vaccine mandates, in Santa Monica, Calif.
    How Ivermectin Became The New Focus Of The Anti-Vaccine Movement
    Scientists are still studying whether the deworming medicine could have any effect on COVID-19. But the frenzy over the drug has far more to do with politics than science. Here's how that happened.
  • Human Rights Campaign has ousted Alphonso David as its president, citing his efforts to help former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's staff respond to sexual harassment claims against Cuomo. David is seen here in May.
    Human Rights Campaign Fires President Alphonso David Over Report That He Helped Cuomo
    David's exit is contentious, with both sides accusing the other of falsehoods. Last month, the New York attorney general's report said David shared confidential files with Cuomo's administration.
  • 'A Train Wreck In Slow Motion': San Diego VA Takes Suicidal Vets Off Treatment
    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.
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