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Premieres Monday, March 25, 2024 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Follow the people dealing with economic uncertainty and the healthcare crisis in rural America. Learn about the mental health and isolation of Midwestern farmers and the Appalachian communities left with limited or no access to healthcare.

A new Indiana law requires professors to promote "intellectual diversity" to receive tenure. Critics worry the measure will dissuade academics from staying in the state.

Like many countries in Africa, The Gambia has a law criminalizing the practice of female genital mutilation. Now, amid a religious backlash, it could become the first country to repeal its ban.

Several gunmen wearing camouflage burst into a concert venue and opened fire. A fire broke out and some were trapped inside. Eleven people have been detained, Russian officials said.

California workplace safety rules for indoor heat protection are five years late, and the Newsom administration wanted to delay them again over state prison cost concerns. But the safety board rebelled and passed the rules anyway.

Las normas de seguridad en el lugar de trabajo de California para la protección del calor interior tienen un retraso de cinco años y la administración de Newsom quería retrasarlas nuevamente por preocupaciones sobre los costos de las prisiones estatales. Pero la junta de seguridad se rebeló y aprobó las reglas de todos modos.

The former Kate Middleton said she was in the early stages of chemotherapy treatment in a video announcement Friday. Her health has been subject to public speculation in recent months.

Dos semanas después de las primarias de California, sólo 12 de 58 condados han terminado de contar los votos. Si bien los funcionarios electorales dicen que necesitan tiempo para verificar las papeletas, dos nuevas leyes podrían ayudar a acelerar el conteo.

"Gas prices are likely to continue trending upward this spring as in prior years," said Doug Shupe, the Automobile Club of Southern California's corporate communications manager.

"We want answers, accountability, and safer planes" — and a federal investigation will help, an attorney representing passengers who were on the plane that lost its door plug tells NPR.