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Meet the candidates and learn what's at stake with KPBS' Nov. 5, 2024 election guide for the San Diego City Attorney race.

A worker manipulates a block of aluminum in a French smelter in 2022. President Trump has increased tariffs on imported aluminum from 10% to 25%, while also removing exceptions from tariffs on steel. Both metals are crucial raw materials for the automotive sector.

Automakers brace for higher costs as steel and aluminum tariffs kick in

Tariffs on steel and aluminum are increasing to 25% — not the 50% that President Trump had recently threatened, but high enough to be a headache for automakers.

The Trump administration's plans for mass firings are sparking protests and challenges in court. Here, supporters of the U.S. Agency for International Development join Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., outside USAID's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 3 after Elon Musk, who oversees the Department of Government Efficiency, said he and President Trump would close the foreign assistance agency.

How does the U.S. federal workforce compare with those in other countries?

President Trump's administration has fired more than 20,000 federal workers. How does the federal workforce compare with those of other countries?

A security guard poses during a media tour of the Port Isabel Detention Center hosted by ICE in Los Fresnos, Texas in 2024. The Trump administration seeks to reopen family detention centers in the state.

President Trump brings back practice of detaining families together

President Trump also detained families during his first term in an effort to deter migration through the southern border.

8 kitchen hacks from 'Baking Show' judge Prue Leith: No points docked for using 'em!

In her new cookbook, "Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom," chef and TV host Prue Leith reveals clever cooking tricks and shortcuts from her 65-year culinary career.

California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed the nation's first state-wide ban on single-use plastic bags. Here, mixed plastic items are seen at a recycling plant in Vernon, Calif., earlier this year.

The impact of plastics and corporate responsibility

The state of California is suing ExxonMobil, alleging the company created a pollution crisis.

A line of unsold electric vehicles sit at on a dealership lot in 2024. Some customers who bought electric vehicles in 2024 are not able to access an EV tax credit now, because their dealers did not report the sale to the IRS using a new system.

Why some EV buyers are getting their tax returns rejected this year

The federal EV tax credit, worth up to $7,500, saw big changes in 2024. For buyers, the credit typically became easier to get. But if their dealers skipped a step, it was a different story.

From his hospital bed, Pope Francis stays in touch with Catholic parishioners in Gaza

Even while Pope Francis is hospitalized, he still keeps in touch with a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza City, making near-nightly phone calls to the priest and congregation there.

Anti-abortion protesters march past the Planned Parenthood in Bloomington, Ind., after the Rally for Life march in January 2023. The facility offers birth control and testing for sexually transmitted diseases now that abortion is banned in Indiana.

Abortion providers — and patients — are on the move, as state laws keep shifting

Clinics in states where most abortions are legal, such as Kansas and Illinois, are reporting an influx of inquiries from patients hundreds of miles away — and are expanding in response.

Simón Guzmán, the North County LGBTQ Resource Center's program manager, holds a sign saying "Reproductive Justice Project," Nov. 19, 2024.

New program expands reproductive & gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ community

The program includes one-on-one case management and accompanying people to intimate medical procedures such as abortion and gender-affirming care.

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