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San Diego County educators got their first glimpse Wednesday of a new plan designed to improve student test scores on the English portion of the California High School Exit Exam. KPBS Reporter Ana Tin

In the 80 years between the beginning of the Mexican War and the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924, the American West was changing. Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924, organized by the National Portrait Gallery, chronicles those changes through photographs of the men and women who transformed the region's nature and identity.

The Supreme Court takes on carbon dioxide as it hears arguments over climate change and CO2 emissions. Madeleine Brand talks with Slate.com's legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick.

Alan Rabinowitz, a scientist from New York, felt compelled to walk 600 miles into the Himalayas to visit one of the last surviving Asian pygmies and show him a picture of Rabinowitz's baby son.

The Supreme Court surprised some court watchers Monday by declining to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act. One legal observer suggests that recent racist incidents involving Southern Republicans may have influenced the court's decision.

We'll discuss the case for mammography screenings for women beginning at 40 and find out the latest on breast cancer treatment.

We'll get the latest news about the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that hit Baja, California on Sunday.

KPBS auction winner says Indy still packs a punch. (Paramount) This year, KPBS offered three auction packages in which winners would have a chance to get…

Auction Winner on Indy 4

Tour de France champion Floyd Landis has waged an aggressive PR campaign to keep his title after drug tests showed that he had taken banned drugs during last year's race. Landis will get a chance to appeal the test results in a hearing at Pepperdine University in California.