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U.S. Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA 52nd District) gives a tour of the capitol building, Tuesday, to the delegation from the San Diego Community College District, Washington, D.C., February 6, 2024

San Diego Community College students go to Washington, DC on a legislative mission

The San Diego Community College District takes student leaders on an annual trip to Washington, D.C. to advocate for legislation to support them.

U.S. President Joe Biden, left, speaks at an event marking the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in the East Room at the White House on June 18, 2024, in Washington, D.C. Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, right, speaks at a campaign event at 180 Church, Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Detroit.

Tonight Biden and Trump will have their first debate of 2024. Here's what you need to know

President Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 general election on Thursday night in Atlanta.

Actors and writers George Takei, at left, and John Cho are shown in side-by-side headshots.

New UC San Diego initiative features Star Trek stars, new Clarion masterclass and housing during Comic-Con

UCSD's Comic-Con offerings include Star Trek's George Takei and John Cho, a special sci-fi writing masterclass and several campus lodging options.

After a car crash, Lilah Clevey was comforted by an unlikely stranger.

She was 19 and caused a car crash. It was the other driver who came to her aid

As Lilah Clevey pulled out of a gas station, she slammed into another car. The driver then became the unexpected source of comfort in Clevey's moment of panic.

Police officers stand at a cordon in the city center in the early morning in Solingen, Germany, on Saturday, following Friday's deadly attack at the city's 650th anniversary celebrations.

German police detain a suspect in knife attack that killed 3

The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the knife attack in Solingen, Germany, that killed three people and wounded eight others at a crowded festival.

The $1 billion donation from Dr. Ruth Gottesman to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is one of the largest ever charitable gifts to an educational institution in the United States.

Tuition will be free at a New York City medical school thanks to a $1 billion gift

Ruth Gottesman is a professor emerita of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Gottesman's late husband, David, left the money to her upon his death.

Left: President Lyndon B. Johnson announcing he will not seek or accept the nomination for re-election and orders a halt to the bombing of North Vietnam, March 31, 1968. Image is a screen grab. Right: US President Joe Biden delivers a prime-time address to the nation in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, July 24, 2024.

Biden's withdrawal from the race has echoes of LBJ

Both men brought an end to their presidencies by declining the nomination of their party for another term.

A view of the destruction caused by demonstrators outside the presidential palace in Mexico City on Wednesday, during a protest over the disappearance of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa teaching training school in 2014. The group of demonstrators knocked down one of the doors of building with a pickup truck.

Protesters ram a truck into Mexico's presidential palace over missing students

Protesters broke down the door of Mexico's presidential palace with a truck on Wednesday, demanding answers for 43 college students who went missing a decade ago.

American activist Mark Rudd, center, president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), addresses students at Columbia University on May 3, 1968.

In Columbia University's protests of 1968 and 2024, what's similar — and different

There are parallels between the two high-profile events, most starkly the proliferation of similar protests around the country. But key differences set them apart.

Bolivian skateboarders show off their moves at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., in June. In addition to doing demos, they taught skateboard basics to kids as young as 3.

Whatever happened to ... the Bolivian women who skateboard in Indigenous garb?

Skateboarding women of Bolivia wear Indigenous garb to pay homage to the strength of their mothers and grandmothers. Their motto: When you fall, you have the power to get back up.

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