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In Kenya, someone with symptoms of dementia may not be able to get a diagnosis — leaving both patient and family with no idea of what is going on. A program is trying to change that.

The country's theocracy, which came to power 43 years ago, faces one of its stiffest challenges amid weeks of widespread protests after the death of a woman arrested by the country's morality police.

Democrats are looking to keep Nevada voters in Biden's corner this year and they hope his policies do it. But communicating the federal dollars isn't the easiest way to excite voters.

From the gallery: Quint Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by San Diego-based artist Perry Vásquez from January 25-February 18, 2023. Some Palms centers the palm tree as a symbol for the idealism of California, simultaneously mythologizing and interrupting its appeal. Date palms, synonymous with the California landscape, were imported by Franciscan monks in the late 1600s as ornamental nods to the plant’s appearances in the bible, transforming Southern California from an arid desert into an oasis. These palms, with only one species native to California, provide neither shade nor fruit, and require vast resources of water from near and far watersheds in order to thrive. Vásquez has considered this ecological quandary to create paintings of palms engulfed in flames, an image which has become synonymous with accelerated rates of wildfires across the region. In other paintings, he further dissects the myth of the palm tree with paintings of Monopalms, the concealed utility structures that use synthetic materials to conform to the foliage that encapsulates the Southern California ideal. At times, Vásquez’s lone, burning palm confers quasi-religious comparisons to Roman-Catholic representations of purgatory and the anima sola (or lonely spirit). Prayed to in devotional art in Europe and Central America, the image of the anima sola depicts a woman breaking free from her chains in a fiery prison in between heaven and hell, marking her destiny to reach the afterlife. From this perspective, the artist explores the palm tree’s symbolic past and uncertain future as iconography of an increasingly unwelcome environment. Ultimately, Perry Vásquez reframes these icons as fixtures of cultural impermanence, moving between realist renderings to atmospheric gestural compositions emphasized by impasto flames against an otherwise flat surface. Perry Vásquez, originally from Los Angeles, has been working in the San Diego region since 1987 and earned his MFA in Visual Art from the University of California, San Diego. He is a recipient of the 2021 San Diego Art Prize. Vásquez has exhibited his artwork in group and solo exhibitions locally and internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Laguna Beach Art Museum, the City of San Diego and the County of San Diego. Vásquez is currently a Professor of Art at Southwestern College, CA. Related links: Quint Gallery on Instagram

Rady Children's Hospital hosts a Comic-Con panel on how its doctors and engineers use 3D printing and virtual reality in complex surgeries.

When stars hit it big just as a generation comes of age, it can create a unique, lifelong bond with their fans. Think: Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, and of course, Beyoncé. It goes way beyond nostalgia.

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A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a lower court order that says mailed ballots that arrive on time but in envelopes without dates handwritten by Pennsylvania voters should be counted.

Nearly a quarter of Americans believe that "patriots may need to resort to violence to save the country" while an overwhelming majority think democracy is at risk in a new PRRI survey.

Another six people who had been on the boat off New Zealand were rescued. A local mayor says the water was dead calm and the assumption was that a whale had surfaced from beneath the boat.