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Books by Roald Dahl are being edited to remove words that could be deemed offensive. Dahl wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

As fentanyl deaths soar, political pressure is growing to stop Mexican cartels that smuggle the drug. Experts on drug trafficking say trying to lock down the Mexican border is an impossible goal.

A Scripps Health doctor recently completed a shoulder replacement surgery using a new mixed reality program, aimed at improving view of operation with 3D images.

Mexican recording artist Natanael Cano is coming to San Diego for his brand new "Pero Si Caben O No?" Tour! See him live at San Diego Civic Theatre on Saturday, September 24 at 8 p.m. Get tickets here! - Prices ranging from $66-$837 Follow Natanael Cano on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. You may have seen computer-generated images of astronauts on unicorns or read about college students turning in term papers written by robots. But today's guest says that we have yet to see the full potential of "generative" artificial intelligence. Guest: Scott Galloway, NYU business school professor and tech expert.

Premieres Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV + encore Sunday, Feb. 26 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS App. Join scientists as they use NASA’s brand new James Webb Space Telescope to peer deep in time to hunt for the first stars and galaxies in our universe, and try to detect the fingerprints of life in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.

Artists in New Orleans and Cuba are exploring their shared heritage and similar sounds, and bringing high school musicians from both places together in a funky cultural exchange.

Too large? Too aggressive? The lions in a new, giant bronze sculpture of India's national emblem are prompting both praise and criticism. The statue was unveiled this week in New Delhi.

Monday, June 20, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Not available on demand. On a hot summer night in Detroit in 1982, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American engineer with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system. (released in 1988)

Researchers at UC San Diego estimate that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was likely circulating undetected for at most two months before the first human cases of COVID-19. Plus, distance learning during the pandemic has only worsened students' achievement gap from marginalized communities and those growing up in privilege. But could there be some long-term benefits to this experience? And this weekend in the arts: Cauleen Smith at the San Diego Museum of Art, outdoor Afro-Cuban jazz at Queen Bee’s, a year of virtual civic organ concerts and "There's Something About the Weather of This Place," at Best Practice gallery in Barrio Logan.