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This May 2, 2022, photo shows the AES Huntington Beach Energy Center in Huntington Beach, Calif. The AES facility, the proposed site of the Poseidon Huntington Beach Seawater Desalination Plant will face a critical vote by the California Coastal Commission (CCC) on May 12. The highly contested project has been debated for more than two decades. The commission's staff issued a scathing report recommending the agency reject the project due to concerns about the impact on marine life, the cost to ratepayers, and the impact of sea-level rise on the low-lying area where it would be built. Business and labor groups argue it will provide another source of much-needed water.

Amid drought, California desalination project at crossroads

Environmentalists oppose the plant and say it will damage marine life and is vulnerable to flooding from sea level rise.

People sit outside a bakery, hoping someone will buy them bread, in Kabul in July.

In the Taliban's Afghanistan, the near-broke central bank somehow still functions

A recent visit to Afghanistan showed a country facing an economic crisis. The banking system has seized up. Credit cards aren't working. Afghans abroad struggle to send money to relatives back home.

Juan Verduzco, the owner of 24/7 Movers Vista pumps gas in Vista, Calif. June 15, 2022

Average San Diego County gas price drops for 30th consecutive day

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County dropped Friday for the 30th consecutive day.

DJ Art Laboe sits in his studio and talks about his 75 years in the radio business in 2018, in Palm Springs, Calif. Laboe, a pioneering disc jockey who hosted a syndicated oldies show for decades, died on Friday.

Pioneering DJ Art Laboe, who coined 'oldies but goodies,' dies at 97

Laboe is credited with inventing the "oldies, but goodies" phrase, as well as with helping end segregation in Southern California by organizing live DJ shows that attracted a diverse audience.

Trevor Noah announced Thursday that he'd be leaving The Daily Show after seven years. "My time is up," he said. "But in the most beautiful way." Noah is pictured above in Los Angeles in September 2021.

Trevor Noah's 'Daily Show' departure hints at deeper problems in late night TV

Noah increasingly looked like a performer who was growing beyond the grind of a late-night Comedy Central show. If he doesn't find a new perch in the genre, the industry will be all the worse for it.

Sheep and goats stand together on Monday in Schneverdingen, Germany, as they form an approximately 330-foot syringe to promote vaccinations against COVID-19.

700 sheep and goats were arranged in the shape of a syringe to encourage vaccinations

A shepherd in Germany arranged her animals into a 330-foot syringe to encourage people to get vaccinated.

Dinosaur footprints found at restaurant courtyard

A diner in China spotted what looked like dinosaur footprints in the stone patio of a restaurant. Paleontologists have now confirmed the discovery and say the tracks are roughly 100 million years old.

Yurii Skubin, 65, shows pieces of spent ammunition collected in a vacant lot in Tavriiske, a village just a few miles from Russian-occupied areas in Zaporizhizhia. The annexation, largely dismissed by the international community as a sham, will likely have real implications for Ukrainians on the front lines who are staring down Russian forces.

On the edge of Russia's illegal annexation, Ukrainians grapple with uncertainty

Villagers on the Ukrainian side say it's already hard to stay in touch with friends and family across the front lines. They fear it will get worse.

De La's absence from streaming sites has effectively erased their presence from the contemporary musical landscape and threatened to minimize their historical import. Now legally available on the internet for the first time, we revisit the classic catalog and its restored legacy.

De La Soul Is Streaming

The iconic group's early music releasing online at last comes with a renewed interest in its career arc. Take a guided tour through one of the most distinguished runs in hip-hop history.

I grew up gazing at fossils in natural history museums. When I discovered that I could find them myself, the prehistoric world of my childhood dreams was suddenly more accessible. Some of my favorite finds are these Cambrian trilobites from Utah.

Bones, teeth and really old rocks: How finding fossils takes me out of myself

Fossils are a humble, hidden constant in the city's bustling ecosystem. And in my overstimulated life, seeking out a few constants in the world sounded pretty good.

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