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  • Twelve percent of second-generation Arizona Latino voters say they support the new law, according to a recent Latino Decisions poll. One second-generation Mexican-American in Arizona says illegal immigrants need to get in line for immigration papers, just like his family did.
  • The architect-designer of the new downtown central library explains what elements are included in the design: the tech center, the high-school, the city offices, the solar collectors.
  • For three decades, Christian Gerhartsreiter claimed to be someone else. After fleeing his German hometown, he developed a series of false identities, moving up the social ladder as he moved across the U.S. Ultimately, he married a lawyer who believed he was a Rockefeller. Journalist Mark Seal talks about the mystery man at the center of his new book, The Man in the Rockefeller Suit.
  • Southern California is a food lover's paradise — unless you live in a poor neighborhood and have no car. But that's the reality for residents of a community in East Los Angeles where the nearest supermarket is miles away. Some residents are speaking out in the hopes of attracting more healthful food options.
  • What are the hurdles to changing to new types of fuel and energy? Who should bear the costs for finding and developing alternative energy sources? As part of our monthly series on ethics in science and technology, we'll explore the benefits and costs for society of alternative energy sources.
  • Britain has been forced to seek a compromise between finding greener ways to fuel its economy and growing food to feed its population. A new law went into effect there Tuesday that requires 2.5 percent of all gasoline and diesel sold for any vehicle to come from biofuels.
  • It's day two of a clampdown at U.S. airports following reports of a foiled terrorism plot in the U.K. How are things going at Boston's Logan Airport? Are travelers prepared?
  • A spokesman for the British oil giant says its figure of 5,000 barrels a day leaking into the Gulf of Mexico has always been just an estimate, and that more oil is spewing out than BP has previously acknowledged. Heavy oil from the massive slick has reached marshes in Louisiana, which Gov. Bobby Jindal said represents a worst-case scenario.
  • Three weeks after Chicago's first-round rejection in the bidding for the 2016 Summer Games, Olympic athletes and sports executives are demanding major change in the U.S. Olympic Committee. At stake, some say, is support for American athletes and the quest to host Olympic Games in the United States.
  • Airs Monday, August 10 at 7 p.m. on KPBS TV
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