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San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer meets with President Donald Trump at the White House, the origins of migrant caravans in Honduras, and the first week of testimony in the murder trial for a San Diego based Navy SEAL.

The U.S. Marine Corps ordered embattled Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, to stop using its emblem in his Islamophobic campaign mailers. Congresswoman Susan Davis, D-San Diego, is co-sponsoring a bill that will make it easier for military families to get food assistance. Plus, what led asylum-seekers from Cameroon to Tijuana? And a new experiment by UC San Diego researchers will send human brain organoids, or “mini-brains,” into outer space to find out what effect weightlessness has on a growing brain. Comic-Con celebrates its 50th show this week and has evolved into an event that attracts upwards of 130,000 attendees. But it wasn't always that big.

For the third time in three weeks, a metal monolith has appeared without explanation, this time in Central California. Yet answers are just as scarce as when authorities found the first one in Utah.

The president also issued an executive order aimed at cutting ties between the U.S. and the owner of the popular Chinese communications and social media app WeChat.

This week, the list of migrants waiting to enter the United States through the San Ysidro port of entry reached over 9,000. Plus, President Trump abandons his effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, Vice President Mike Pence visits San Diego navy bases and the family of a man who was shot and killed by San Diego police in 2015 has their suit reinstated by a federal appeals court.

The president was at his golf course in Virginia when a slew of networks announced Joe Biden had won the race for the presidency. Trump vowed he would go to court, but presented no evidence of fraud.

Recovery efforts are still underway one year after the West Fire destroyed 39 homes in Alpine. Also, a new report shows the Pentagon isn’t doing enough to protect military bases from sea level rise, and San Diego’s top weekend events feature tap dancing and hair metal.

California’s largest utilities have repeatedly staged power shutoffs this year to prevent their equipment from sparking wildfires during one of the worst fire seasons on record.

From the archive: As part of our First Person series, Nanda Mehta describes how speaking publicly about a taboo subject made her stronger and led her to encourage other South Asian women to share their own stories on stage. This episode originally aired April 30, 2019.

Only here can you find a San Diego photographer whose inspiration lies in the dark, crowded punk venues of Tijuana. All music in this episode is by Tijuana punk band San Pedro El Cortez.