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The launch comes just weeks after Pyongyang tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile. The Department of Defense says the missile traveled about 620 miles before landing in the Sea of Japan.

Show compliments Cygnet Theatre's 'Shockheaded Peter'

The Amtrak Cascades train that derailed near Tacoma on Monday left three people dead and dozens injured.

Airs Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

The San Diego Housing Commission will appear before a council committee later this month to explain its decision to opt out of a federal program aimed at desegregating cities.

The 1970 Boundary Treaty requires that U.S. and Mexican officials on the International Boundary and Water Commission be in agreement before building structures that might affect the Rio Grande's flow.

The island nation is one of the world's biggest exporters of tea, an industry that employs a sizable part of the population. We visit one organic tea farm that shares revenues with its workers.

In 2012, a Justice Department probe shut down law firms that helped Chinese asylum-seekers fabricate or inflate claims of persecution. The clients were left alone, but now 13,500 may have to leave.

The idea of using leeches to treat ailments is ancient — and no longer in favor. But now these blood-suckers are gaining new respect as a doctor's helper during surgery.

The candidates for the 49th congressional district, Republican Diane Harkey and Democrat Mike Levin, squared off in their first televised debate this week on NBC.