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Visitors watch an orca performance at SeaWorld in San Diego this year. The company has seen attendance slip in the year since the release of a documentary film critical of the company's captive whale program.

SeaWorld Hopes New Orca Habitats Will Stem A Tide Of Criticism

The theme park says a 2013 documentary critical of its captive orca attraction has hurt its bottom line. Now, it's pushing back with a social media campaign and plans for new habitats for its whales.

A woman who said she heard on the radio from The Mike Slater Show that the petition drive to overturn the minimum wage increase was nearing its end rushed to Albertsons in Allied Gardens on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014 to sign.

Petition Drive To Put Minimum Wage Hike On Ballot Nears Deadline

There are six days left for opponents of San Diego's minimum wage increase to gather signatures to force the issue onto the ballot.

A young Iraqi on Thursday stands amid the debris of a double car bomb attack in Baghdad. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. President Obama's plan to attack Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria will require help from partners on the ground in both countries.

Obama's Plan: The Pros And Cons

The president has opted for an open-ended air campaign to fight the Islamic State. A look at what it will take to make the plan work and the risks that could cause it to fail.

WATCH: Carney, McCain Spar On CNN Over ISIS Strategy

The former White House Press Secretary went toe to toe with the Republican senator after President Obama's address to the nation about the Islamic State.

Soldiers, sailors and marines roamed the streets of Los Angeles in the summer of 1943 looking for men wearing zoot suits, jamming traffic and stopping streetcars during their search.

Sagging Pants And The Long History Of 'Dangerous' Street Fashion

For adults, "sagging" has long been a marker of slovenliness or something more sinister. But the style might just be the latest iteration of fashion freighted with some old anxieties.

Handsome Zhang — that's his real name in Mandarin -- runs a shipping company, one of many supporting businesses spawned by East Wind village's furniture industry. The shipping business helped Zhang, 25, buy this Kia sports car.

The Alibaba Effect: How China's eBay Transformed Village Economics

At first, Sun Han made a staggering 100-percent profit margin on his furniture. Soon everyone in his village was opening a furniture factory — and didn't need to raise pigs anymore.

Obama Vows To 'Ultimately Destroy' Islamic State Militants

KPBS Midday Edition asks two San Diego-area experts on the Middle East their reaction to President Barack Obama authorization of airstrikes inside Syria to "degrade and ultimately destroy" the terrorist group ISIS.

Theodore Roosevelt, seen here in 1885, was haunted by the fact that his father didn't fight in the Civil War.

Ken Burns' 'The Roosevelts' Explores An American Family's Demons

In a new PBS documentary series, Burns turns his lens to Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and how each triumphed over adversity.

Prop H: Escondido Golf Course Dispute To Be Decided By Voters

Escondido voters will decide the fate of the Escondido Country Club property when they head to the polls in November.

U.S. Air Force Airmen assigned to Nellis and Creech Air Force Bases, Nev., take the Oath of Enlistment during a reenlistment ceremony Dec. 4, 2013.

Airman Won't Say 'So Help Me God' And Is Denied Reenlistment

"So help me God." Those four words are at the center of a controversy brewing for an atheist airman who refuses to say them as part of his reenlistment oath, and thus has been denied the opportunity to remain in the Air Force.

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