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It's hard to raise money for charity these days, so fundraisers are looking for new ways to attract donors. From a machine that churns out seemingly handwritten fundraising letters to games that help nonprofits raise money, it's clear plenty of for-profit businesses are eager to help.

As the East Coast bakes in triple-digit heat, you can bet it's even more stifling in the asphalt and concrete jungles of cities like New York and Washington than in nearby rural areas. So cities nationwide are increasingly turning to "cool" building materials to ease what's known as the urban heat island effect.

A San Diego cancer biologist will explain how a late night in a Salk Institute laboratory lead to a eureka moment with a gene connected to breast cancer.

In the nine months since being given the legal right to serve openly in the military, gay service members are increasingly speaking out about the double lives they led under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law.

Construction is still under way at ground zero, the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in New York. A memorial plaza is set to open a week from Sunday, 10 years after the attacks on the World Trade Center buildings.

Lee Ielpi, a retired New York City firefighter who lost his son on Sept. 11, 2001, is co-founder of the Tribute WTC Visitors Center at ground zero. The center, which celebrates the lives of the victims, has collected reflections of visitors in a new book.

The Supreme Court ruled last week that states and localities cannot ban handguns intended for self-defense. Washington, D.C., ended its gun ban two years ago, but some residents complain it's still too difficult to get a weapon. A D.C. councilman says the rules do what they're supposed to do -- identify the bad guys, and leave the good guys alone.

The days of one of Tijuana’s top crime fighters may be numbered. Though Tijuana’s Police Chief has survived assassination plots, he may fall victim to Mexican politics. A collaboration between KPBS and Tijuanapress.com.

The four-term Arizona senator's huge investment and hardened positions on issues like immigration have put him on a path that seems to head toward wins in next Tuesday's GOP primary and the November election.

From 1976 to 1983, a vicious military dictatorship ruled Argentina. Among its crimes: taking hundreds of babies from their biological parents — political prisoners who then "disappeared." A group of determined grandmothers has been seeking to identify these stolen orphans.