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UAW Local 4811 members join the statewide strike of academic workers at UC San Diego. La Jolla, Calif. June 3, 2024.

UC San Diego unionized workers strike as result of protest crackdowns

Workers hit the picket lines Monday morning at UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, with UC Irvine workers joining the lines Wednesday.

A woman walks before dawn in Toksook Bay, Alaska, in 2020. Congress approved millions of dollars to connect the community to the new site for the village of Newtok, which was forced to move because of erosion related to climate change. Many scientists who worked on climate-related projects struggled to continue their work under the Trump administration.

Why many scientists fear a second Trump term

Federal scientists work on everything from agriculture and housing to weather forecasts and electricity generation. Many worry they will face censorship if Trump wins in November.

A fluorescent image of a human body louse with <em>Yersinia pestis</em> infection — that's the cause of the plague — depicted in orange/red in the glands.<br>

Don't just blame rat fleas. Lice may have helped spread 'black death' plague

The mystery: How did bubonic plague spread so rapidly? Could rat fleas have done it all? A new study points the finger at lice as possible accomplices.

The view from the cockpit during a Hurricane Hunter training flight over the Gulf of Mexcio out of Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., on May 28, 2024.

Hurricane Hunters spread thin heading into Atlantic Hurricane Season

Heading into what's forecast to be an extraordinary season, the Air Force’s Hurricane Hunters weather reconnaissance squadron is stretched to meet increasing demands to respond to climate disasters.

Traffic flows on Interstate 805, which divided communities in Southeast San Diego, May 31, 2024.

State budget deficit threatens to gut Caltrans 'Reconnecting Communities' program

The latest budget proposal out of Sacramento would cut the program to a third of its original size.

The image of the protein spike hemagglutinin created by crystalizing and x-raying the molecules. Hemagglutinin is part of the flu virus that allows it to enter human cells and the green shape inside it is the molecule tested by Scripps Research to stop the flu.

New molecular therapy by Scripps Research could stop many strains of flu

The therapeutic molecule targets and disables a part of the virus that allows the flu to enter human cells.

Hunter Biden, the president's son, goes on trial this week on federal gun charges in Delaware.

Jury selected in Hunter Biden gun trial

The trial, which opened Monday in federal court in Delaware, is the first of two cases brought by Justice Department special counsel David Weiss against the president’s son.

Chef Dieuveil Malonga runs the show at Meza Malonga.

This chef in Rwanda wants to create a revolution in African cuisine

Meza Malonga, a restaurant in Rwanda's capital Kigali, serves innovative Afro-fusion cuisine. Chef Dieuveil Malonga opened it in 2020, after years of working in high-end European restaurants.

Amy Wilson, a conductor and artistic director of the Atlanta Philharmonic suffered from brain cancer but isn't able to get medicaid which makes it diffucult to pay her hospital bills.

$30 too much a month keeps a cancer patient in Georgia from cheaper care

Georgia hasn’t expanded Medicaid. Some people suffer more than others because of that coverage gap.

A priest honors the nun who demonstrated 'the ministry of presence'

When Father James Martin's dad was dying, a nun named Sister Janice Farnham went out of her way to visit him.

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