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It is 92 days till Halloween and I know this because I am eagerly counting them. One sign that Halloween season is in full swing is the arrival of Midsummer Scream, a Halloween and haunt convention in Long Beach.

With former President Donald Trump out of office, progressive groups are attempting the tricky pivot from fighting Trump's agenda to pushing a new one.

The Mission Valley Community Plan is getting an update. It calls for increased mixed-use development that is pedestrian-friendly and helps residents make better use of public transit. Firefighters face a number of dangers on the job, but they’re also at an increased risk for developing cancer. And, for years, a distinguished UC San Diego economist has wanted to stop young girls in Kenya from undergoing genital mutilation by offering their families money to college. The study keeps getting rejected. Also, members of the Trump administrations got a firsthand look at Los Angeles’s sprawling homeless problem and the efforts to control it as the president directed his staff to find solutions to address homelessness. And, new research finds California’s network of Marine Protected Areas is doing exactly what it was designed to do — allow marine life to rebound. Plus, going on a guided hike while listening to meditative music is a thing and it’s coming to San Diego.

San Diego’s rate of inflation is the third highest in the U.S. Also, what does Hunter’s trial postponement mean for his re-election bid? A San Diego tenants union fights for refugees and other low-income renters, a draft of California’s ethnic studies curriculum stirs controversy, and Thumbprint Gallery presents the Hitchcock Group Art Show.

A Honduran asylum-seeker, whose attorneys said became the first person on Tuesday to gain refugee status in the U.S. under the “Migrant Protection Protocols” policy, may be sent back to Mexico while the government considers appealing the immigration judge’s decision.

The attack on the Capitol continues to cast a shadow over Congress as both a building and an institution, as it remains either the subject or subtext of most every political discussion in Washington.

Alexander Lukashenko declared a landslide victory in Aug. 9 polls widely seen as fraudulent. He was sworn in for a sixth term Wednesday in a secret ceremony in the capital, according to state media.

The credit reporting agency will pay up to $700 million in fines and monetary relief to consumers over a 2017 data breach that affected nearly 150 million people.

A San Diego State University basketball player lost a cousin and her cousin's husband in the killing spree. Plus, a newly improved permit will provide much needed improvements to the bluffs and train tracks in Del Mar and asylum-seekers sent back to wait in Mexico rarely return to court with an attorney.

Parents and students are planning to protest cuts to bus routes and laptops in the Sweetwater Union High School District. Also, a Congolese asylum-seeker has been reunited with his family in San Diego after almost two years apart, a look at how the city of Santa Monica is ramping up rental subsidies for seniors, a two-hour trek for some kids from City Heights to the beach highlights San Diego inequities, and San Diego marks the 99th anniversary of women getting the right to vote with a march and rally.