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Detectives are reviewing video footage that corroborates a teenage Syrian refugee's report of being attacked on a San Diego trolley by a man shouting epithets about the victim's ethnicity, a police spokesman said Thursday.

A health-care company doing business in San Diego County could face repercussions in coming weeks as a congressional committee overseeing the COVID-19 pandemic has opened an investigation over reports it administered vaccines to wealthy people who were not eligible to receive them.

Zhang Zhan was detained in May after reporting on the coronavirus response in China. Now, she faces years in prison as officials try to silence reports that differ from their own.

Vaping among teenagers is on the rise. A new government study found that more than a quarter of high school students currently use e-cigarettes. How San Diego Unified School District is confronting the growing public health issue. Plus, KPBS talks with author Aaron Glantz about his book “Homewreckers,” which details how banks and capitalists conned people out of their homes in the late 2000s, demolishing the American Dream. California schools are facing a teacher shortage and one big reason behind the shortage is the high cost of housing. Now some school districts are considering a radical plan — to build housing on district land.

A new state law requires Californians to have health insurance in 2020 or face a penalty on their state taxes. This follows the repeal of the individual mandate at the federal level, which took effect in 2019.

A boat builder was approached to build a custom catamaran for a wealthy Belgian man and his family and it turned into a 15-plus-year adventure that spans 118,000 miles to some of the remotest places on the planet.

Mahbubullah Muhibbi is the latest, and one of the highest-profile victims of shadowy assailants, who've killed journalists, police, security forces, judicial authorities and senior administrators.

California isn't the only region dealing with devastating wildfires. In Baja California, Mexican firefighters have squared off against quick-moving fires. We look at fires in Baja that have destroyed homes and left local residents with little time to get to safety. Plus, California's doctors are coming together to tackle homelessness. How the medical community is lobbying for change. And, San Diego is proposing new rules that would help churches, mosques and synagogues build housing on their parking lots. Some churches have been pushing for this change.

"Joker" arrives in theaters after nabbing the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. This standalone DC origin film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the iconic villain.

The officials testifying Tuesday resigned in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said, "None of the intelligence we received predicted what actually occurred."