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San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria is shown at a press conference in San Diego, Calif. Feb. 23, 2023. Gloria told reporters that he is directing city workers to repair streets seven days a week.

California's Big City Mayors announce support for mental health reform laws

The California Big City Mayors, a bipartisan coalition of mayors of the state's 13 most populous cities, offered its full support of two bills authored by Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) intended to "make it easier for severely mentally ill people to get the help they need."

In this photo provided by the Fraser Coast Regional Council, a blue barrier helps hold back flood water in a section of Maryborough, Australia on Tuesday.

Thousands evacuate worst Australian floods in decades

Local authorities have placed up to 300,000 people under evacuation warnings in one of the country's worst flooding incidents.

Large numbers of workers from different sectors protest against inflation and in favor of higher wages in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Aug. 17, where inflation has soared.

An economic perfect storm is battering emerging markets. Debt crises loom

With a strengthening dollar and rising commodity prices, developing nations are having a hard time paying their debts.

A cargo ship anchored in the Marmara Sea awaits access to the Bosphorus Straits in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 13, 2022.

Ukraine, Russia agree to export grain, ending a standoff that threatened food supply

The deal allows Ukraine to resume shipments from the Black Sea to world markets and Russia to export grain and fertilizers, clearing the way for millions of tons of desperately needed materials.

A hippo cow lifts herself from the water.

NATURE: Hippo King

Premieres Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sunday, April 10 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Follow the life of an old hippo, a king of its kind, and discover the true character of one of Earth's largest land mammals.

Deaths from motor vehicle crashes in the U.S. jumped 10.5% in 2021 from the year before.

A New Jersey city achieved 0 traffic deaths in 4 years with quick, high impact ideas

Traffic fatalities are on the rise across the United States. Yet in some parts of the country, efforts born from both tragedy and political will have seen the numbers move in a different direction.

In this undated file photo, a San Diego Police Department cruiser with its lights on.

SDPD cites staffing shortages, violent crime as reasons for increased overtime

SDPD said it will exceed its overtime budget by an estimated $9.2 million by the end of the fiscal year.

The Washburn Fire burns in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park on Friday.

A wildfire threatens giant sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park

More than 500 mature sequoias were threatened but there were no reports of severe damage to any named trees, such as the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant.

Jelani Day went missing on Aug. 24. LaSalle County Coroner Richard Ploch says Day's official cause of death was drowning.

Jelani Day's death is ruled a drowning, the coroner says

Day, a Illinois State University graduate student, was reported missing on Aug. 24. LaSalle County authorities say the manner in which he went into the Illinois River is currently unknown.

This photo taken on April 25 shows the top of Lake Mead drinking water Intake No. 1 above the surface level of the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam. The intake is the uppermost of three in the deep, drought-stricken lake that provides Las Vegas with 90% of its drinking water supply.

A barrel containing a body was exposed as the level of Nevada's Lake Mead drops

Police predict that as the water level drops because of drought, more bodies will be found.

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