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A truck carrying a limited delivery of fuel crosses into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Israel has agreed to allow in a greater amount of fuel for humanitarian use.

Israel says it will allow limited deliveries of fuel to Gaza for aid needs

Israel will allow 140,000 liters of fuel into Gaza every two days for the United Nations' use to distribute aid and for telecommunications provider Paltel to keep phone and internet service available.

The Return to Nature funeral home is marked off with police tape on Oct. 6 in Penrose, Colo.

Colorado funeral home owners arrested following the discovery of 190 decaying bodies

Police searched the Return to Nature funeral home after receiving reports of an "abhorrent smell." The owners are now facing charges of theft, forgery, money laundering and the abuse of a corpse.

Lloyd Kaufman celebrates 50 years of Troma Entertainment on Saturday at Comic-Con.

Comic-Con Panel Recommendations

Cinema Junkie Beth Accomando picks her favorite panels.

Smadar Tzimmerman (right) helps push a cart with donations into the community center in Lod, Israel.

The space for peace and Jewish-Arab solidarity is shrinking in wartime Israel

Activists pushing for peace, a shared society and solidarity between Jews and Arabs say that speaking out has become dangerous in Israel right now.

The Oscar for best picture went to <em>Oppenheimer </em>at the 96th Annual Academy Awards.

Oscars 2024: 'Oppenheimer' wins best picture, Emma Stone takes best actress

It was a night of few surprises, but felt triumphant nonetheless. Here's what NPR pop culture critics had to say as they watched the 96th Academy Awards — from red carpet to the final winners.

Gas is pumped into a car at a Shell station in Rancho Penasquitos, Calif. Nov. 16, 2021.

Average San Diego County gas price rises for seventh day in a row

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in San Diego County rose Monday for the seventh consecutive day, increasing nine-tenths of a cent to $5.06.

Crystal Perez Lira, from the "Colectiva Bloodys y Projects," gives an interview at her office where the wall reads in Spanish "My body, my decision," in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. Lira is one of dozens of Mexican volunteers who support women wanting to terminate a pregnancy, offering virtual guidance through an abortion protocol in which no clinics or prescriptions are needed.

As Mexico expands abortion access, activists support reproductive rights at the U.S. border

While some legal and religious barriers remain in place in the mostly Catholic country, several organizations of “acompañantes,” or volunteers who support women wanting to terminate a pregnancy, feel ready to take the next step.

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Oranges grown at a commercial citrus farm in Valley Center, Calif., Dec. 4, 2023.

Orange trees with citrus greening disease found in Valley Center, quarantine expands

The state detected the tree-killing bacterial disease during routine inspections. It is a major threat to San Diego County's $138 million annual citrus crop.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks about mental health crisis before signing off on two major pieces of legislation to transform the state's mental health system and to address the state's worsening homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, on Oct. 12, 2023. Roughly 100 petitions to fast-track people with untreated schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders into housing and medical care under an alternative mental health court program created by Newsom have been submitted in seven California counties as of Dec. 1, 2023.

New California mental health court sees more than 100 petitions in first two months

The state believes between 7,000 and 12,000 people statewide will eventually be eligible for “CARE Court."

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