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People stand in front of a sign featuring Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at the United Center before the start of the Democratic National Convention Friday in Chicago.

The DNC starts today. Here's what you need to know

The Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago, just a month after the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and a few short weeks after Harris got in the running for president.

Balloons are dropped at the Registrar of Voters in Kearny Mesa. San Diego, Calif. March 5, 2024.

Live results: 2024 Primary Election - San Diego City Council District 4

District 4 encompasses southeast neighborhoods including Encanto, Paradise Hills, Valencia Park and a dozen more.

Melinda Mattocks-Ushry holds a photo of her brother Kelvin “Chuck” Mattocks at her home in New Bern, N.C., on Dec. 5, 2023.

Trench collapses have killed hundreds of workers in the U.S. over the last decade

More than 250 people have died since 2013 when trenches they were working in caved in. In most cases, the employers failed to follow basic government regulations for making trenches safe.

Raul Flores holds up a piece of lithium chloride at Imperial Valley Community College while explaining to his classmates how it is extracted and refined on Oct. 5, 2023.

‘White gold’ could revolutionize Imperial Valley. Will locals be included?

Vast lithium stores deep under the Salton Sea in Southern California are worth $500 billion.

At an LGBTQ+ shelter in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 7, 2022, a volunteer lights a candle during a vigil for Ahmad Abu Markhiya, a 24-year-old Palestinian man who was found decapitated in the West Bank city of Hebron.

An NPR investigation: A murder in Hebron

Was the murder of a young Palestinian man in the West Bank an anti-gay hate crime? NPR identifies the accused killer and explores the parallel systems of justice that have yet to resolve this case.

A Phoenix Herpetological Society rattlesnake class attendee moves to pick up a Western Diamondback Rattlesnake with snake tongs under the supervision of instructor Cale Morris at the Florence Ely Nelson Desert Park in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Lessons from rattlesnake class in the American Southwest

It's rattlesnake season in Arizona, where the number of bites has surged. And it turns out most of what you thought you knew about the reptiles isn't true.

Alaska Airlines planes are shown parked at gates at sunrise, March 1, 2021, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle.

Alaska Airlines grounds 737 Max 9 fleet after window blows out on flight from Oregon

Alaska Airlines grounded all of its Boeing 737-9 aircraft, hours after a window on one such plane blew out midair and forced an emergency landing in Oregon. The airline said the plane landed safely.

Rain hits the neighborhood of Chollas View in San Diego, Calif. Jan. 22, 2024.

Dry weather to move into San Diego County Tuesday

Dry weather is expected to move into Southern California Tuesday after a series of storms.

Honoré Prentice (in yellow shirt and glasses), who lives in Canada, met three of his birth siblings, who live in the U.S., in person on Dec. 13, 2021. The brothers were all born in Haiti.

When an adoptee reunites with birth siblings abroad: 'There's no instruction manual'

Reuniting with birth siblings after an international adoption is a challenging — and emotionally charged — mission. Here are stories from four families.

Hannah Allen attends Hudson County Community College and is the mother of three children. "First you put your kids," she says. "Then you put your jobs, then you put your school. And last, you put yourself."

College is hard enough — try doing it while raising kids

More than 5 million college students are also parents. But many colleges do little to support them. Most don't even offer child care.

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