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Advocate: Loss of funding shows dwindling support for homeless services in Escondido

The Escondido City Council recently decided to pull funding from Haven House, a long-running homeless shelter in the city.

Former YouTube star Ruby Franke, pictured here in a video for her mental health counseling service ConneXions, was charged with six felony counts of child abuse.

YouTube vlogger Ruby Franke formally charged with 6 felony counts of child abuse

Ruby Franke, the YouTube mommy blogger behind the channel 8 Passengers, was arrested last week after her 12-year-old son climbed out a window and ran to a neighbor's house asking for food and water.

An aerial view of an area affected by an extratropical cyclone in Muçum, in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, on Tuesday. Authorities are warning there could be more flooding to come.

A cyclone has killed over 20 people in Brazil, with more flooding expected

The southern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul and neighboring Santa Catarina are reeling after a devastating cyclone killed 27 people and displaced thousands.

As oceans get hotter, scientists are looking for ways to safeguard coral species so they can be used to restore reefs in the future.

One way to save coral reefs? Deep freeze them for the future

As oceans get hotter, coral reefs are suffering. Scientists are working on ways to preserve coral by freezing and then reviving them to restore reefs someday.

Della Lilley visits with her mother, 89-year old Betty Whiteman at a nursing home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Biden administration proposes new federal standards for nursing home care

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, after the Biden Administration proposed a new national standard for staffing nursing homes.

The late Hasidic composer Ben Zion Shenker sings, wearing a yarmulke and holding a mic, at a male-only sing along known as a k<em>umzits </em>that took place in an Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn.

A new website reports on the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community

A new website, Shtetl.org, aims to provide an inside view and a critical look at the insular world of ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Franne Lee at the New York Public Library's Hal Prince exhibition in 2019. Lee designed the costumes for Prince's <em>Sweeney Todd</em> and <em>Candide.</em>

Franne Lee, who designed costumes for 'SNL' and 'Sweeney Todd,' dies at 81

From SNL's Coneheads to Killer Bees, Broadway's Sweeney Todd and Candide, we remember Tony Award-winning costume designer Franne Lee who died on Aug. 27.

Jesse McLaren, a staff writer for <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!</em> has monetized his former niche hobby, custom-making snow globes.

From snow globes to tutoring, strikes kick Hollywood side hustles into high gear

One comedy writer opened a snow globe business on Etsy. A showrunner's assistant is offering bar and bat mitzvah tutoring. As the strikes wear on, here's how Hollywood workers are getting by.

Jess Hegstrom, a public health worker for Lewis and Clark County in Montana, tries to start conversations about suicide risk at gun shows. "I'm not here to waggle my finger at you," she says.

Storing guns away from home could reduce suicides, but there are legal hurdles

New ideas like "safe storage maps" show gun owners where to put their firearms in safekeeping if a mental health crisis happens. The idea has support, but obstacles are in the way in some states.

An elementary student at Maryland Avenue Montessori in Milwaukee sits under an open window and fan. Milwaukee Public Schools dismissed students early Tuesday due to hot temperatures and lack of air conditioning in most schools.

A heat wave, and lack of air conditioning, disrupt school districts nationwide

A heat wave along the East Coast and in the Midwest leads to closings, shorter school days.

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