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Interstate 15 is shown from Rancho Penasquitos on Sept. 2, 2022.

Amid scorching heat, busy Labor Day travel weekend underway

AAA said the vast majority of travelers are getting to their destinations by car.

View of a damaged classroom in a school in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 2, 2017, after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. Maria set off a years-long stretch of interrupted schooling for Puerto Rico's children.

In the 6th-largest U.S. district, natural disasters have disrupted schooling for years

Puerto Rico, the nation's sixth-largest school district, is in crisis. It's both uniquely vulnerable to natural disasters and unusually ill-equipped to help children recover from them.

A congressional report found financial technology companies, or fintechs, largely fueled PPP loan fraud. Bluevine, a fintech noted in the report, told NPR it adapted to threats of fraud better than other companies mentioned.

A congressional report says financial technology companies fueled rampant PPP fraud

Fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, which gave potentially forgivable loans to small businesses during the pandemic, was largely due to financial technology companies, according to a new report.

State tax deadlines extended to October for most Californians after storms

The tax relief applies to nearly all of the state's 58 counties, including San Diego.

Ilya Ponomarev is the founder of February Morning, an opposition Russian-language online newscast aimed at viewers in Russia. Behind him is a flag symbolizing the "free Russia of the future," created following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ponomarev calls it the "Russian tricolor without the blood."

A scrappy newscast in Kyiv aimed at Russians counters Putin's propaganda machine

February Morning, an online TV channel broadcast in Russian, offers its audience a different take on the war in Ukraine. Its founder says his goal is nothing less than the end of the Putin regime.

Activists gather to protest against a planned release of water from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in Japan, in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday.

As Japan prepares to release Fukushima wastewater, anxiety grows across South Korea

As Japan plans to release treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea this summer, concerned South Koreans are stocking up on sea salt.

San Diego Italian Film Festival founder Victor Laruccia at the Museum of Photographic Arts. Laruccia died on March 17, 2022 at the age of 80.

San Diego Italian Film Festival pays tribute to its late founder

"Loose Cannons" screens at MOPA as a fundraiser in honor of Victor Laruccia.

Volodymyr Korchevsky, center, stands with his son Bohdan, 18, and wife, Hanna Korchevska, outside their temporary home in Lviv. The Korchevsky family left the middle-class life they'd built in Mariupol and now months later, jobs gone, savings depleted and unable to afford rent, they are living in what's essentially a short shipping container, sandwiched between others, in a Lviv city park.

Millions of Ukrainians have escaped the war. Many still can't find enough work

Sixty percent of Ukrainians who fled their homes for other parts of the country have lost their jobs, as Russia's invasion has upended industries and destroyed businesses.

The first Oscar presentation and banquet was held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, Calif., in May 1929.

The first Oscars lasted 15 minutes — plus other surprises from 95 years of awards

A lot can happen in 95 years. Ahead of the Academy Awards on Sunday, we take a look back at the surprises, the scandals, the slap and — yes — even the streaker.

Ramsey Archibald (left) and his father, John Archibald.

Meet the father-son journalists from Alabama who won a Pulitzer and changed laws

Their series exposed how the police force in the town of Brookside preyed on residents to boost its revenue.

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