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A city of San Diego fire fighter gets a vaccine dose ready, Feb 26, 2021.

Hundreds of San Diego City workers get vaccine exemptions, some still face termination

The city of San Diego announced a vaccine mandate for employees last year and this week hundreds of city employees are having exemptions granted.

Don Lemon attends the 16th annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute at the American Museum of Natural History on Dec. 11, 2022, in New York City.

CNN announces it's parted ways with news anchor Don Lemon

Lemon, a 17-year veteran of the cable network, said he was "stunned" when his agent told him Monday morning that he had been terminated.

How do you stay optimistic in spite of it all? 6 hopeful souls share their secrets

They're activist and advocates from Brazil, Colombia, India, Kenya, Lesotho and the U.S. We wanted to know: How do they stay positive in the face of the world's many problems and woes?

Cruz Urias Beltran collapsed because of heat-related illness while working in a cornfield near Grand Island, Neb., in 2018. He is one of at least<strong> </strong>384 workers who died from environmental heat exposure in the U.S. in the last decade, according to an investigation by Columbia Journalism Investigations and NPR.

Heat is killing workers in the U.S. — and there are no federal rules to protect them

Heat has killed hundreds of workers in the U.S., many in construction or agriculture, an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations found. Federal standards might have prevented them.

EXTRA LIFE: A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER

Stream or tune in Wednesdays, May 12 - June 2, 2021 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV + Mondays, May 17 - June 7 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2

In this May 23, 2019 file photo, the U.S. Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Supreme Court won't hear arguments Title 42 case as planned

A court spokeswoman provided no explanation and the case hasn't been dismissed.

Kristina Kvien is the U.S. charge d'affaires in Kyiv, the top American official on the ground in the Ukrainian capital. She estimates that there are more than 100,000 Russian troops at the border to Ukraine, and that number is growing.

Russia has just two options in front of it, says the top U.S. official in Ukraine

It Russia takes the path of aggression, it will face "extremely severe consequences immediately," says the U.S. charge d'affaires Kristina Kvien.

This black Jeep was almost entirely submerged in Lake o' the Pines in Marion County, Texas. It wasn't until a tow truck started to pull it from the water that a woman was spotted inside.

Police came to pull a Jeep out of a lake. They found a woman inside, alive

It wasn't until after a tow truck came that anyone realized someone was in the vehicle, some 40 feet from shore in a Texas lake.

New father Yappe Pako gets help with his kangaroo care carrier from midwife Marie-JosÃ©e Miezan. His newborn son is named Ambo Crisostome. They're in the kangaroo care ward at the University Hospital Medical Center at Treichville in the Ivory Coast. A new program teaches the technique to moms â and dads. It's especially beneficial for preterm and low birthweight babies.

There's a global call for kangaroo care. Here's what it looks like in the Ivory Coast

Can the warmth of a parent's chest be a boon to babies, especially premature births? In the 1970s, Colombian researchers found it did. The technique has gone global. Ivory Coast is the latest convert.

A woman sits on the rubble as emergency rescue teams search for people under the remains of destroyed buildings in Nurdagi town on the outskirts of Osmaniye city southern Turkey, on Feb. 7. Now, nearly a week later, many people in Osmaniye are still living in tents and other makeshift shelters.

As aid trickles in, earthquake survivors in southern Turkey adjust to downsized life

In the southern Turkish city of Osmaniye, people squeeze into tents or sleep in cars near their damaged homes nearly a week after the massive earthquake struck.

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