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SEAL Charged With War Crimes, City Hall Archives, Top Weekend Events

A U.S. Navy Seal charged with war crimes will not be released before his trial. Also, a look at the archives below San Diego City Hall and this weekend’s top art events.

LOST LA: Coded Geographies

Stream now or tune in Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Karen Watkins is vice chair of the school board of Gwinnett County, a suburban county north of Atlanta. She is surprised that she has become a target for a political culture war. "I just didn't realize that it would impact the local school board," Watkins says. "Our main focus is towards student achievement and ensuring that we are producing children that are thriving."

What it's like to be on the front lines of the school board culture war

Karen Watkins ran for her local school board because she wanted to be involved in her children's education. Since her election in 2020, she's been yelled at, threatened and followed to her car.

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is seen leaving the U.S. Capitol after a Senate vote on October 20, 2021.

Manchin says he offered to change political parties if he was a 'problem' for Dems

The saga over Sen. Joe Manchin's party affiliation comes after an article claimed the West Virginia Democrat had plans to become an independent. Machin has denied the report.

Rochelle dos Santos embraces her daughter, who was born with microcephaly in 2016 after dos Santos contracted Zika during her pregnancy in midwest Brazil.

Remembering Zika: Parents offered their kids for studies, then say they were forgotten

Years after agreeing to take part in research, families of children with congenital Zika syndrome are feeling abandoned.

Charged with capital murder, William George Davis listens to closing arguments in court on Oct. 19, 2021, in Tyler, Texas, as he stands trial for the deaths of four patients at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler in 2017 and 2018.

Texas nurse convicted of killing 4 men with air injections

The jury deliberated for about an hour before finding William George Davis guilty of capital murder. Davis was accused of injecting air into four patients' arteries after they underwent heart surgery.

A contact tracer checks-in via phone with a patient self-quarantined at home in February.

San Diego County's Contact Tracing Struggles Explained

COVID continues to spread through our region, and contact tracers are only contacting on average 2.2 people for each person who tests positive. An epidemiologist talks about why it's so hard.

Inside a house of the ancient Viking village, 10th-11th century, L'Anse aux Meadows Newfoundland, Canada.

Researchers pinpoint when the Vikings came to Canada. It was exactly 1,000 years ago

It has long been known that the Vikings arrived in the Americas sometime before Christopher Columbus. Now, a new article in the journal Nature concludes the exact year was 1021.

The Evolution Of Jon Batiste, Music Consultant Of Pixar's 'Soul'

Jon Batiste was born for show business. Hear him play an intimate set in New York and on our radio show as we trace his story to his current gig as band leader of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

The underground world of debt collection in South Korea

In the show Squid Game, the poor compete to the death for money to pay their debts. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with L.A. Times reporter Victoria Kim on the underground world of South Korea's loan sharks.

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