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'The Covenant of Water' tells the story of three generations in South India

Much will be written about Abraham Verghese's latest novel in the coming months and years; it's a literary feat that deserves to be lauded as much as those of the likes of Dickens and Eliot.

Close up of a doctor hand with blue glove giving support and love to a patient at hospital. Undated image.

Most local hospices aren't transparent about their aid in dying policies

A California law requires health care providers to post their position on medical aid in dying.

A view of vehicles in a dust storm that cut visibility to near zero and triggered a series of chain-reaction crashes on a highway in Springfield, Ill.

A sudden dust storm in Illinois led to car crashes that killed 6 and injured dozens

Police said more than 70 vehicles were involved in the crashes that left parts of Interstate 55 closed and more than 35 people injured. Injuries ranged from minor to life-threatening.

Gordon Lightfoot, seen here performing at the Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards in 2012 in New York City, has died at the age of 84.

Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian folk legend, dies at 84

The Canadian singer-songwriter wrote classics like "If You Could Read My Mind," "Early Morning Rain" and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

"I was told by the world I wasn't allowed to write classic country, even though I'd written so much of it and I loved doing it," Mya Byrne says of her new album, <em>Rhinestone Tomboy</em>, which melds her punk sensibility with polished songwriting.

How Mya Byrne paved her long, winding road to country music with grit and sparkle

Mya Byrne loved country music since her childhood in New Jersey. But it took years of searching and traveling to lead to the place where she could make her new album, Rhinestone Tomboy.

Jin Liqun, AIIB's president, addresses journalists at a Beijing press conference in 2016.

Tracking the impact of U.S.-China tensions on global financial institutions

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks the president of a China-led development bank about the impact of the friction between the U.S. and China.

PacArts artistic director Brian Hu calls "Forever A Woman," directed by actress Kinuyo Tanaka, "a stone cold masterpiece" that has been too long overlooked. It screens April 24 as part of San Diego Asian Film Festival's Spring Showcase.

Spring Showcase offers 'fresh Asian cinema, from then and now'

PacArts hosts more than two dozen films ranging from animation to documentary, science fiction to lush melodrama.

It's a big week for Kendall (Jeremy Strong), who finds there's no place like Hollywood to embrace being a total fake.

'Succession' season 4, episode 6: 'Living+'

The Waystar Royco team travels to L.A., where Kendall pitches eternal life (kind of), Shiv reconnects with the most unlikely of men, and Roman can't stop firing women.

Law enforcement officers search for Francisco Oropesa, who is suspected of shooting and killing five people in a Cleveland, Texas, home early Saturday.

Authorities are offering $80K for information about the suspected Texas shooter

Police say 38-year-old Francisco Oropesa shot five people to death in a home in Cleveland, Texas, early Saturday and then fled the area. Investigators are still searching for the suspect.

Sixth graders from Habu Primary School in Botswana on a safari. The trip is the high point of a multi-pronged effort by the nonprofit Wild Entrust to resolve a chronic conflict between rural villagers and the wild animals that destroy their crops.

Elephants are a menace for these 6th graders. Then they went on a safari ...

Botswana has one of the last thriving elephant herds – and a history of human-elephant conflict that threatens both sides. A nonprofit has a program to shift that dynamic. Will it work?

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