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This year's MacArthur Fellows — recipients of what's commonly called the Genius Grant — include artists, scientists, dancers and more. They'll each receive a no-strings-attached $625,000 award.

"This is what happens when people go crazy and get tested," Ohio state Rep. Nino Vitale wrote on social media.

The San Diego City Council will consider an ordinance Tuesday that would place a limited ban on residents sleeping overnight or living in their cars within city limits.

Washington state will offer a set of tiered health care plans by 2021 that will cover standard services and are expected to be up to 10% cheaper than comparable private insurance. These state plans will be available to all residents regardless of income.

The State Department's new listing of Chinese media escalates a tit-for-tat scrap over journalists that kicked off earlier in the year.

About one million San Diego residents will be 55 or older by the year 2030, that's a 194 percent increase from 2012, according to the San Diego Associations of Government.

Imperial Beach is closed after sewage-contaminated water runoff flowed into California from Mexico’s Tijuana River. Also, a report from ProPublica says carbon credits don’t fight climate change, the new chair of San Diego County Democrats talks about 2020s big races, inside San Francisco’s first-of-its-kind shelter for transgender youth and California Assembly members will vote on AB-392 this week.

How will pardoning servicemen accused of war crimes impact the U.S. military? Also, elder care homes rake in profits as workers earn a pittance, California’s aging population is growing quickly and what does it mean when the San Diego Museum of Man says it is “decolonizing” its collection of human remains?

The board wants the county’s planned freeway projects to move ahead unchanged.

In today’s San Diego News Matters podcast, the flu continues to spread among migrants at a downtown shelter with more people now under quarantine. Plus, meet a Marine Corps veteran dedicated to remembering his comrades with a special Memorial Day tribute. And, as the 2020 election cycle gears up, KPBS talks with newly elected chair of the County Democratic Party about his election strategy.