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Medical device company Medtronic is merging with another firm and moving its legal headquarters to Ireland. The move is a tax-saving strategy called "inversion," and it's growing more common.

Of the hundreds of migrants that U.S. border agents catch daily in the Rio Grande Valley, 20 percent are unaccompanied minors. Instead of catching lawbreakers, the agents say, they're babysitting.

Breweries have been providing farmers with free or discounted grain to feed their animals for centuries. But a proposed FDA rule intended to make food safer could disrupt that relationship.

Friday, June 27, 2014 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Kwolek, a DuPont scientist, invented the remarkable fibers — lightweight, flexible and five times stronger than steel — that are used around the world in bulletproof body armor.

A new contract leaves the Metropolitan Transit System as the regulator of the taxi industry. Drivers hoping for reform will have to turn to the city.

SDG&E promised a group of electric-car owners a reduced rate through the end of 2014 to be part of a study, then doubled their rates without warning.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed the state's $156 billion budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year at a ceremony in San Diego. He says the spending plan is a sign that the majority can actually govern in California.

The Sunni militants of ISIS have raised their black flags in towns they've captured in northern Iraq. But they've had help, and share a goal, with former members of Saddam Hussein's security forces.

Just hours after polls closed in Afghanistan's presidential election, candidate Abdullah Abdullah claimed the vote was rigged in favor of his opponent, Ashraf Ghani.