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Hundreds of Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel workers picketing in front of the hotel on July 20, 2022.

Hilton San Diego Bayfront workers strike as Comic-Con gets underway

Roughly 600 workers walked off the job after negotiations between the workers' union and hotel broke off Tuesday.

President Biden on Wednesday announces the signing of a $95 billion military assistance package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Ukraine says the aid is critical as it seeks to regain momentum on the battlefield from Russia.

Biden signs $95 billion military aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

Ukraine will get most of the weapons as it struggles to combat Russia's overwhelming firepower. The bill also includes more arms for Israel, and humanitarian help for Gaza.

Angie Atkins, 37, lives with her two kids in an apartment in northwest Philadelphia. She's been on a waitlist for a federal housing voucher, which would help subsidize her rent, for about seven years.

Rents are high and housing vouchers are hard to get. So Philly is giving renters cash

The pilot program chose people on the city's long waitlist for housing vouchers to test how much direct cash payments can help. HUD, the federal housing agency, is interested in the possibility.

A green sea turtle swims near coral in a bay on the west coast of the Big Island near Captain Cook, Hawaii, on Sept. 11, 2019.

Hawaii's lawmakers mull imposing fees to pay for ecotourism crush

Hawaii lawmakers are considering legislation that would require tourists to pay for a yearlong license or pass to visit state parks and trails. They're still debating how much they would charge.

The palms of a patient with mpox during an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. The country is now seeing a dramatic spike in mpox — with a strain that is deadlier than the one that sparked the global outbreak in 2022.

Major mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is a worry to disease docs

With a dramatic jump in cases — and a strain of mpox that is deadlier than the virus that went global in 2022 — specialists are scrambling to rein it in.

Leon Christiansen, 82, sits in his apartment in San Diego, Calif., on March 28, 2024. Christiansen is one of thousands of seniors living alone with family support in San Diego County.

San Diego's senior population to increase in coming years, raising concerns for elder orphans

San Diego County's senior population is projected to rise by 21%.

Evacuated Green Valley Mobile Home Park resident, Denise Dougi, stands outside her home in Vista. March 22nd, 2023

Some residents at Vista mobile home park still unable to return

It’s been a week since some residents of a mobile home park in Vista were forced to leave due to a sinkhole.

Thousands of mosquitoes, encased in cardboard tubes, are loaded into a helicopter by Aidan Callahan, Layla Rohde and Nicole Ferguson of the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project, part of a novel strategy to save Hawaii’s endangered birds.<br/>

Hawaii's birds are going extinct. Their last hope could be millions of mosquitoes

Hawaii's unique birds, known as honeycreepers, are being wiped out by mosquitoes carrying avian malaria. The birds' last hope could be more mosquitoes, designed to crash their own population.

Gasoline prices at a Chevron station in Chula Vista, Calif., on Aug. 31, 2023.

Prepare to pay more at the pump this Labor Day weekend

The average price for gasoline in the county is $5.367, which is more than 13 cents higher than what it was a year ago.

Tax paperwork is spread across a table, April 8, 2022.

Federal tax deadlines extended for storm-affected San Diego County residents

Federal tax deadlines have been extended until June 17 for San Diego County residents affected by last month's rainstorms, the Internal Revenue Service announced Tuesday.

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