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San Diego County's unemployment rate increased slightly in October to 4.7% from a revised 4.5% in August, and above the year — ago rate of 4.3%,according to figures released Friday by the state Employment Development Department.

It takes a village to make the music we love. We remember the singers, songwriters, composers, instrumentalists, producers and journalists that we lost in 2024.

The election was free of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere, like the United States and neighboring Argentina.

We are proud to announce the seventh San Diego Latinx New Play Festival will take place at La Jolla Playhouse, October 4 – 6, 2024. The Latinx New Play Festival expands the presence of Latinx stories and artists on the American stage, and spotlights the broad range of today’s Latinx experience. Four scripts will be selected to be rehearsed and developed at the Playhouse, culminating in a live public reading at the festival. The festival will be free for everyone to attend, and will include a schedule of in-person readings of new works, panel discussions and other events. Produced by Dr. Maria Patrice Amon, the Playhouse’s 2024/25 Artist-in-Residence, in partnership with La Jolla Playhouse, the Latinx New Play Festival was originally launched in 2016 by San Diego Repertory Theatre. La Jolla Playhouse is delighted to be able to provide this vibrant, important arts event a new home in San Diego. The submission period for the 2024 Latinx New Play Festival was from January to April 2024. Sign up for our newsletter to be the first to know when submissions for the 2025 Latinx New Play Festival open. The 2024 Latinx New Play Festival has been made possible in part by the Prebys Foundation. Visit: Latinx New Play Festival La Jolla Playhouse on Instagram and Facebook

Two families are suing AI chatbot company Character.AI for allegedly encouraging harm after the kids became emotionally attached to the bots. One chatbot allegedly exposed a child to sexualized content.

Saadia Faruqi, author of the popular Yasmin book series, has written a new book, The Strongest Heart, that mirrors her own life — growing up with a father who likely had undiagnosed schizophrenia.

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria Wednesday announced a tentative 30-year lease deal to transform a 65,000-square-foot commercial building in Middletown into massive homeless shelter and resource campus, but others aren't so confident it is the right move.

Pope Francis' condition remains critical but stable and he was able to do some work while still in the hospital with double pneumonia, the Vatican said in a Tuesday evening update.

Tufts University researchers took material from human and pig teeth and were able to grow a tooth-like structure. They hope their findings could lead to growing living tooth replacements for people.

They’re calling for a higher cost-of-living adjustment, reduced student-teacher ratios in transitional kindergarten and increased funding for special education.