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With COVID-19 cases spiking in San Diego, county Supervisors took the pre-emptive step of closing bars, breweries and wineries that do not serve food, before the Fourth of July weekend. Plus, with calls to defund the police happening nationwide, there’s a petition on Change.org to defund San Diego Unified School District’s police department. Critics say the presence of police in schools disproportionately exposes students of color to the criminal justice system at a young age. Also, the recent Supreme Court ruling banning discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation gives transgender people hope the military will soon lift its transgender service ban. And, a recent report shows that one-third of essential health, food and agricultural workers in the city of San Diego are immigrants. Finally, San Diego Black Panther Party Chairman Henry Wallace V gives historical context to today’s racial injustice protests.

County health officials announced Tuesday the region's houses of worship, hair salons and barbershops could reopen.

The coronavirus pandemic has laid waste to end-of-the-year events for high school seniors. So valedictorians will have to impart their wisdom online.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to journalist Jon Wertheim about tennis star Naomi Osaka's decision to withdraw from the French Open after facing penalties and fines for her decision to boycott media.

The country is reeling after a recent earthquake and is in need of humanitarian aid. Osaka, whose father is Haitian, and other celebrities like Cardi B are trying to draw attention to the crisis.

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.

The annual Vista Viking Festival will remain online this year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Mistakes and alleged abuse of power by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies have already cost taxpayers almost 2-million dollars this year. As reported by the San Diego Union Tribune, county supervisors have paid out settlements to claims ranging from excessive force to unlawful arrest to being injured in SD County jail. And the lawsuits keep coming...15 of them filed in the last year. Many of the claims reportedly contain the same types of allegations against the sheriff’s department.

The virus that causes COVID-19 can cause strokes, inflammation, oxygen deprivation and infection in the brain. And each of these may lead to long-term neurological problems.

Ali Nazary, the National Resistance Front's head of foreign relations, denies that the last holdout against the Taliban has fallen, calling such reports part of the "Taliban propaganda machine."