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Instructor Kevin Baross leads a bike safety course as students stand mounted on their bikes in front of the Copley-Price Family YMCA, March 10, 2018.

Class Aims To Keep City Heights Bike Riders Safe On Dangerous Streets

The monthly course at the YMCA location near City Heights provides instruction in a classroom and on the road.

U.S. Attorney for District of Massachusetts Andrew Lelling announces indictments in a sweeping college admissions bribery scandal, during a news conference, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, in Boston.

Business Report: The Price Of Higher Education

This week in business news, we look at the fallout from the college admissions scandal, the $4.7 trillion spending plan from the White House and two new reports offering a snapshot on the state of San Diego housing.

When Is It OK To Wear The Clothing Of Another Culture?

The line between appreciation and appropriation can be hard to pinpoint. Experts weigh in on the writer's dilemma: Should her husband have worn a Filipino barong to a family party?

A map shows Canyon Crest Academy in Carmel Valley, March 6, 2018.

17-Year-Old Student Arrested For Alleged Shooting Threat

A 17-year-old Carmel Valley student was in custody Tuesday for allegedly making social media threats referencing a school shooting.

Newlyweds Saumil and Zarina Shah stayed at a safe house in New Delhi run by the Love Commandos, a group that rescues interfaith and inter-caste couples from potential violence and helps them hide from their families.

When India's Interfaith Couples Encounter Threats, 'Love Commandos' Come To Their Aid

Couples who marry against their parents' wishes sometimes risk their lives in doing so. That's where the Love Commandos come in. They run 500 safe houses and help couples elope or hide from relatives.

Beck Bennett as Sen. Mitch McConnell, Heidi Gardner as Dana Bash on Saturday Night Live on Saturday.

'Believe Women, Until It's Time To Stop': Republican Senators Celebrate In 'SNL' Open

Republican senators were in full party mode in Saturday Night Live's cold open, the day of Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation. Here's a look at the show's political parodies this week.

Don't Count Them Out Just Because They Can't Cast A Ballot

This election season, groups that are unable to vote — like youth and undocumented people — are solidifying their impact on America's democratic process.

"Women are just 32 percent of newsrooms, but the percentage of women of color is even more dire," Cristal Williams Chancellor, director of communications at the Women's Media Center, told NPR.

Women Of Color Are Severely Underrepresented In Newsrooms, Study Says

They make up just 7.95 percent of U.S. print newsroom staff, 12.6 percent of local TV news staff and 6.2 percent of local radio staff.

Gert Berliner's Swedish ID card with which he eventually entered the U.S. in 1947. He lived in Berlin until he was 14 years old. Gert escaped the Nazi death camps because his parents got him on a children's transport to Sweden in 1939.

The Cost Of Courage: The 2 Couples Who Rescued My Family From The Nazis

Two couples sheltered Uri Berliner's family when the Nazis came to power. One thrived; the other paid a terrible price.

Novelist Jin Yong — the pen name for writer and journalist Louis Cha — has died, triggering tributes and mourning from his fans. Here, a customer reads a book at a memorial section at a bookstore in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

Louis Cha, Who Wrote Beloved Chinese Martial Arts Novels As Jin Yong, Dies

He's been called China's Tolkien, its Martin, its Rowling — all in one. With his adventure stories rooted in ancient China, Louis Cha gave life to decades' worth of martial arts films.

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