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Juan Manuel Montes, 23, is shown in the undated image.

Trial For First Known DACA Deportee Gets Green Light In San Diego

A federal judge who has been a frequent target of President Donald Trump's scorn on Tuesday urged a quick trial for a Mexican man who had been shielded from being deported from the U.S. and claims he was wrongly expelled.

Overlapping maps of the five boroughs of New York were combined in "Mapping Inequality," to show redlining across the entire city.

Interactive Redlining Map Zooms In On America's History Of Discrimination

In the early 20th century, the federal government categorized neighborhoods, based largely on race, to determine mortgage eligibility. A new site combines the maps — and their revealing backstories.

Antonio, Jarad and Juan hanging in the dayroom at the Compound, L.A.

INDEPENDENT LENS: They Call Us Monsters

Airs Monday, May 22, 2017 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will descend on the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on Wednesday night for their final presidential debate.

4 Things To Watch In The Last Presidential Debate

KPBS.org is streaming the debate at 6 p.m. along with live fact-checking from NPR

Lettuce crops are irrigated in Yuma, Ariz. In winter, Yuma typically supplies many of those bags of baby spinach and mixed greens Americans consume. It's But unusually damp conditions have forced growers to end the season earlier than usual this year.

Sorry, Salad Lovers: We May Have No Mesclun Mix (For Two Weeks)

The system that delivers fresh greens to supermarkets is having a hiccup. There may be a nationwide shortage of salad mix in a few weeks. You can blame wet weather in Arizona and California.

Japan meteorological agency officer Gen Aoki displays seismic readings that are apparently a result of a nuclear weapons test in North Korea on Friday morning. North Korea later confirmed it had conducted its fifth nuclear test.

North Korea Conducts Its 5th Test Of Nuclear Weapon

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff estimates the yield was 10 kilotons, which is almost twice that of a January test and would be the country's largest blast yet.

Jake Solomon, cofounder of Bold Brew, pours a cup of cold brew coffee, Feb. 3, 2017.

San Diego State Called Model For Teaching Entrepreneurship

Major gifts from the business community are fueling student start-ups at San Diego State University.

Physician assistant James Williams (right) describes the treatment of burn patients as "a very tactile type of medicine."

Civilians With Severe Burns Treated At Texas Military Hospital

The U.S. military's burn center in San Antonio is responsible for treating service members who are badly burned. But, to stay sharp, the medical teams there also treat civilians.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange raises his fist before addressing reporters from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Friday. In his speech, Assange said there are still plenty of legal battles still to wage: "The proper war is just commencing."

Sweden Drops Rape Investigation Of Julian Assange — But He's Not In The Clear

The WikiLeaks founder has been at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid extradition. Swedish prosecutors halted the probe, but London police quickly said they'd still enforce their arrest warrant.

On March 23, a man unloads fish from the U.S. fishing vessel the Sea Dragon at Pier 38 in Honolulu. According to an Associated Press report, Americans buying Hawaiian seafood are almost certainly eating fish caught by foreign workers hired through a U.S. government loophole that allows them jobs but exempts them from most basic workplace protections.

AP: Hawaiian Seafood Caught By 'Foreign Fishermen Confined To American Boats'

The Associated Press reports that Hawaiian fishing boats rely on hundreds of undocumented workers who can't step foot on shore and aren't protected by labor laws — all thanks to a legal loophole.

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