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President-elect Joe Biden Monday nominated San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten to the post of deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.

The comedian and activist is helping to launch a new campaign to fight for war veterans who say they are sick because of exposure to burn pits and other toxins in Afghanistan and Iraq.

People were dying of a disease that could be treated — but in poor countries, they did not have access to medicines that could help. That was the story of HIV — and now of COVID-19.

In May, NOAA will release its once-a-decade update for the 30-year weather averages that local meteorologists use. In many places, it will mean far fewer days that are "above normal."

A degree too warm, or a room too bright, could render a vial ineffective at a time when shipment delays and shortages mean back-up doses are practically nonexistent.

"Phosphôros," made in El Salvador, is on the shortlist for a World Health Organization short film competition. Winners will be named May 13. Until then, the public can tune in — and weigh in.

In Mercury Rising, historian Jeff Shesol recalls the early days of the U.S. space program, when Cold War fears ruled, and no one was sure Glenn would survive America's first orbital flight.

The researchers' findings, published this week in the academic journal "Nature Plants," show a regulatory mechanism in plants can help turn on an immune response after a pathogenic attack and can switch off hours later once the plant determines the threat is gone.

The industry contributed more than $300,000 in the most recent election cycle to candidates who support looser restrictions on cannabis operations in cities and county unincorporated areas.

Encore Monday, Sept. 27, 2021 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Wrap up ROADSHOW's first-ever visit to Delaware with incredible appraisals including: 1820 J.J. Audubon portraits, a Ming Dynasty Xiwangmu figure and Ric Binkley science fiction illustrations, ca. 1950.