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UC San Diego Health laid off 230 workers — about 1.5% of its workforce — across its clinics and hospitals last week. The cuts include many frontline workers.

Tips on how to manage common texting conundrums, from dealing with a chaotic group chat to getting an unresponsive friend to message you back.

Premieres Monday, July 21, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Turning 21, Samuel wants his independence. Yet every rite of passage is fraught with challenges and social barriers. Seizures and uncontrollable movements. Inaccessible housing. Degrading ableist encounters. "No one tells you how to be an adult," he says, "let alone an adult with a disability." Can a community of disability activists help him follow his dreams?

In the past decade or so, actors and comedians have adopted D&D as a performance medium. Podcasts and web series have expanded into stadium tours – and fueled growing interest in the game more broadly.

A day after Sharp HealthCare announced it was laying off 315 of its employees, an additional 40 Sharp medical office workers voted unanimously to join SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West.

Actor Julianne Nicholson talks about balancing grief with humor on her show, Paradise. She shares with Rachel an early memory of "outhouse beauty" and her secret to social situations.

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! The documentary features the impact of service-dog agency K9s For Warriors on the lives of three American veterans struggling with trauma sustained in service overseas. Founded by Shari Duval and her son Brett Simon, who served two tours in Iraq, K9s For Warriors matches veterans Adam, Shilo and Louis with companion dogs. Each learns to manage issues such as flashbacks, hypervigilance, and invisible psychological damage.

The 900-page tax and policy package fulfills several key campaign promises but also makes cuts that could boot millions from health care and food assistance programs.

The City of Encinitas Senior Citizen Commission in partnership with the Encinitas Youth Commission is pleased to announce that they will be hosting a FREE Encinitas Tech-y Tutors event on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, from 9 a.m. - Noon, at the Encinitas Community & Senior Center, 1140 Oakcrest Park Drive, Encinitas, California 92024. Attendees are encouraged to bring their personal smart devices (phones, laptops, and tablets) to best receive support with everyday tasks such as attaching photos to text messages, managing contact lists, adding events to calendars, handling spam emails, and more.

Conservative groups challenged the program, contending that Congress exceeded its powers in enacting legislation that delegated to the FCC the task of operating the Universal Service Fund.