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The Sweetwater Union High School District will ask South San Diego voters to approve Proposition O next Tuesday. The 644-million-dollar school bond would help to modernize and repair aging classrooms.

Thirty years ago this month, enactment of the Endangered Species Act helped foster the notion that people could stop the extinction of animals and plants. In the latest National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR's Christopher Joyce visits what one biologist calls "Florida's attic" to measure the act's impact on a little blue bird.

Hou Hsiao Hsien is quite simply one of the world's premier filmmakers yet his films are lucky to play a few festival dates here in the U.S. The San Diego International Film Festival used to champion his work and Madstone Theaters brought in Hou's

San Diego voters living in the 50TH Congressional district vote today on who will complete the unfinished term of convicted congressman Randy Duke Cunningham. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

The Donna Frye rebellion in our chaotic city election earns its own chapter in history.

Anthony Glees, director of Brunel University's Center for Intelligence and Security Studies, discusses what can be done to improve anti-terrorism intelligence in Britain.

The west Baghdad neighborhood of Amiriya is one of the city's most dangerous. There are daily sectarian killings, which has included people being pulled off buses and shot, others burned alive in their homes. Residents are gathering arms, and new militias have sprung up.

The Prestige

NASA scientists are increasingly confident they will retrieve useful scientific data from the crushed remains of the Genesis spacecraft. The recovery effort is something approaching archeology, as scientists dig shards of equipment out of the ground. NPR'S Howard Berkes reports.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist dies after a battle with thyroid cancer, ending his 33-year tenure on the Supreme Court. He served as chief justice for 19 years and helped lead the high court's move to the right.