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In a move to help address the region’s housing crisis, the San Diego City Council on Tuesday passed an updated affordable housing policy that requires builders to construct more low-income units or pay a penalty. A previous version was vetoed by Mayor Kevin Faulconer. At the U.S.-Mexico border, doctors are protesting in San Diego to demand they be allowed to vaccinate detained migrants against flu. Over the past year, three migrant children have died of flu while in Border Patrol custody. Plus, San Diego is getting 5G this week, but most cellular customers won’t see the increase in speed on their service. We’ll explain. As the baby boomer generation ages, the burden of caring for elderly parents fall on their children. A San Diego author examines the challenges this brings. And, the owner of San Diego’s Comickaze comic book stores died suddenly last week. KPBS arts and culture reporter Beth Accomando has a tribute to the man whose geekiness and pop-culture savant brought joy to many.

It's been almost a year since friends and family have been able to visit their loved ones in prison, due to the pandemic. Letters to the inside are always a lifeline. This year, more than ever.

KPBS Anchor Maya Trabulsi and author Kwame Alexander discuss his book “The Crossover” which was selected as KPBS’s One Book For Teens.

About 10 percent of San Diego County residents living with HIV don't know it. Hear about free testing opportunities this week to mark World AIDS Day. Plus, tomorrow is "Giving Tuesday," a global movement that encourages people around the world to give donations, time, or goods to charities. If you’re looking to give, hear some tips on how to ensure your donations go to a worthy cause. And, last week, a federal judge in Oregon blocked the Trump administration from denying visas to immigrants, if they lacked the ability to pay for healthcare. We explain how the proclamation would have drastically reduced legal immigration to the U.S. Also ahead on the podcast, 500 years ago, the Spanish Conquistadors arrived to the capital of the Aztec empire, igniting the European colonization of the continental Americas. For many, the encounter between the two worlds is a prevailing, painful clash.

In an interview with NPR's Morning Edition, Jen Psaki promises to restore the tradition of holding daily White House press briefings and to be "as fact-based as I can be."

We asked two scholars who have spent decades studying empathy and bias to discuss what they've seen in the past year. They offer their view of what has changed - and what has not.

Aaron Glantz is a senior investigative reporter at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and Pulitzer Prize finalist. His new book examines how members of President Trump's inner circle bet big after the housing bust and made billions of dollars keeping the American Dream out of reach for individual families.

The former president will headline the annual conservative conference with a Sunday address, his first speech since leaving office. His baseless election fraud claims could also get heavy play.

The California Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously Thursday to approve a funding mechanism for a wildfire fund. Utilities across the state can tap into it to help pay for wildfire damages.

Cal Fire is working to extinguish a brush fire that broke out Friday morning in Ramona and was moving at a moderate-to-fast pace, officials said.