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President Biden gives Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., the pen he used to sign The Inflation Reduction Act with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in the State Dining Room of the White House on Aug. 16, 2022.

Despite infighting, it's been a surprisingly productive 2 years for Democrats

Despite more than a handful of setbacks, President Biden has delivered on several major promises since 2021, some with bipartisan support. Those compromises could be harder with the new Congress.

TikTok would be banned from most U.S. government devices under a government spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday, the latest push by American lawmakers against the Chinese-owned social media app.

Biden approves banning TikTok from federal government phones

A ban on the Chinese-owned app on federal devices is in a spending bill signed by President Biden. It won't affect most of the app's 100 million U.S. users, but it is an anti-TikTok escalation.

Lt. Jonathan Lowe of the San Diego Police Department addresses the media under the pride flag in Hillcrest on July 7, 2022.

Police say they're ready to keep huge events such as San Diego Pride and Comic-Con safe

San Diego Police have plenty of experience in providing security for huge public events, and they say they're ready to do it again this year.

Passengers from the Moscow-Belgrade flight, operated by Air Serbia, pass through the airport in Belgrade, Serbia, on Wednesday.

Russians rush for flights out amid partial reservist call-up

Flights filled up and ticket prices sky-rocketed, apparently driven by fears that Russia's borders could close.

The Federal Justice Center in downtown San Diego in this undated photo.

GirlsDoPorn operator pleads guilty to sex trafficking

The San Diego Union-Tribune's enterprise editor, Kristina Davis, joined Midday Edition to talk about her latest reporting on the federal case.

Mayor Todd Gloria speaks at a press conference outside of Young's Mart, Nov. 23, 2021.

San Diego small businesses get a $6 million boost from COVID-19 relief funds

More than a thousand small businesses have benefitted from a city grant program.

That Loretta Lynn sang about women's struggles while masterfully projecting the image of an uncorrupted country girl made her all the more convincing as an artist.

Personifying a country ideal, Loretta Lynn tackled sexism through a complicated lens

Rather than extol Lynn in ways she rejected, we should appreciate the agency with which she so impressively crafted her identity in country music.

A boy works in a coal mine north of Kabul. Afghanistan's state-run coal industry is going strong in an otherwise shattered economy. Many underage workers are the ones who are extracting the coal.

In Afghanistan, coal mining relies on the labor of children

Since the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan's coal exports have increased — and so has child labor. At a coal mine in Baghlan province, boys earn between $3 and $8 for a day's work.

This is one of 194 homes The Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority bought this year. The purchase is a first for the agency, which wanted to prevent investors from buying the homes and possibly increasing rent or evicting tenants.

It's harder to buy a house. This city fought back by outbidding corporate landlords

A Cincinnati agency says large investors are taking some of the most affordable homes off the market, exacerbating the racial wealth gap. It's now helping its new tenants buy the homes themselves.

Deforestation is a major threat to the survival of orangutan. Here a baby sumatran orangutan plays around in a tree as they train at Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme's rehabilitation center in Indonesia.

A U.N. biodiversity convention aims to slow humanity's 'war with nature'

Delegates from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Canada to try to fix humanity's relationship with nature. The convention comes during an emerging extinction crisis.

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