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Since the dawn of TV, presidents have used the setting to make some of their most important announcements. Tuesday night, President Obama takes his turn.

The glaciers atop Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro may be gone entirely in the next few decades. A new study shows that 85 percent of the ice cover that was present in 1912 has vanished, and the ice continues to melt rapidly.

The Oceanside Museum of Art remembers artist Italo Scanga, who lived and worked in San Diego for many years. We'll talk about the work and career of this internationally acclaimed visual artist.

Election day is one week away in one of the most historic races in American politics. How will Americans end up voting in the Presidential race? We'll ask one of the KPBS Citizen Voices bloggers wha

The Obama administration on Wednesday urged California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to call state lawmakers into a special session to deal with the state's water crisis.

One State lawmaker wants to require “climate change” to be taught in California schools. Democrat Joe Simitian says his measure would instruct the Board of Education and the Department of Education

Infants and preschoolers who don't get enough nighttime sleep have higher odds of being obese as they grow up. And napping isn't a substitute. Over the past three decades, obesity rates have doubled among children age 2 to 5, and tripled among 6- to 11-year-olds.

David Eagleman is a neuroscientist who has imagined multiple versions of the afterlife, and none of them resemble a devil in a big chair surrounded by flames, or pearly gates that greet you when you a

The spirit of the salon - a place for intimate artistic performance and intellectual discussion - lives on in different ways in San Diego.

American journalist David Rohde escaped last year from a Taliban stronghold in northern Pakistan after being held for seven months. It's the same region where the suspected Times Square bomber reportedly trained. Rohde, who is currently on leave from The New York Times, explains the conflicted history of the region.