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Chula Vista City Hall, October 21, 2021.

Chula Vista’s Tenant Protection Ordinance takes effect March 1

Chula Vista's Tenant Protection Ordinance sets a precedent in San Diego County.

Smoke rises from a derailed cargo train in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 4.

Health concerns grow in East Palestine, Ohio, after train derailment

Air monitoring continues in East Palestine after the crews released a number of toxic chemicals in what officials called a "controlled explosion" last week.

The exterior of the San Diego County Central Jail in downtown San Diego is shown on April 26, 2022.

Community demands transparency after another jail death

The latest in-custody death comes on the heels of news that a sheriff’s deputy was arrested for allegedly having illegal drugs on county jail property.

The solar panels of the International Space Station (ISS) are just one example of the many kinds of fragile scientific instruments that require inventive packing and deployment tricks.

UCSD institute to study blood stem cell aging aboard ISS mission

The UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute will launch blood stem cells into space aboard a NASA support mission to the International Space Station Tuesday in an effort to study the impact of lack of gravity on human cellular aging.

This satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Ian over the central Caribbean on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (NOAA via AP)

Tropical Storm Ian is tracking toward Florida and may soon hit hurricane status

Authorities and residents in Florida were keeping a cautious eye on Tropical Storm Ian in the Caribbean on Sunday, expected to continue gaining strength and become a major hurricane.

Fox Corp. executive chairman and CEO Lachlan Murdoch is not expected to apologize for the company's $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems when he addresses investors on Tuesday. He's shown here at a Sun Valley, Idaho, conference in 2017.

Fox isn't in the apology business. That could cost it a ton of money

When Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch addressed investors on Tuesday, he did not apologize for the events that led to a $787 million settlement over the broadcasting of election-related falsehoods.

U.S. infectious disease experts fear a winter surge of respiratory illness, like the one that overloaded E.R.s with COVID patients in January 2021, could yet materialize this winter, with several circulating viruses wreaking havoc. So far, though, it looks like early peaks of RSV and flu are receding.

RSV recedes and flu peaks as a new COVID variant shoots 'up like a rocket'

RSV and the flu appear to be receding in the U.S., but COVID is on the rise, new data suggests, driven by holiday gatherings and an even more transmissible omicron subvariant that has become dominant.

London's White Cube shows 'fresh and new' art at first New York gallery

London's White Cube opens its first New York art gallery with a show focused on how contemporary art can reference and distort prior creations to resist established power and value systems.

The city center of Jableh is home to older buildings as well as newer, less regulated construction. An image of President Bashar Assad hangs over a street cart with the slogan "We continue with you" in Arabic.

Photos show double blow of war and earthquakes in regime-held Syria

NPR gained rare access to parts of Syria after last month's devastating earthquakes, photographing what life is like for people who were already coping with a years-long civil war.

Two boys walk through a small tent encampment in Gaziantep, Turkey, on Thursday, Feb. 16. People have set up makeshift tents since they are too afraid to return to their homes after the earthquake.

Tent camps are everywhere now in Turkey's earthquake zone. Here's one

Tent cities have been constructed in Turkey for displaced earthquake victims and because families are afraid to return to their homes. More than 40,000 buildings are at risk of collapse.

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