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The U.S. and Mexico border wall is shown facing west from Otay Mesa, Sept., 20, 2022.

Border Patrol avoiding medical costs by releasing injured migrants, records show

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is avoiding skyrocketing medical costs by releasing injured people from federal custody, according to a KPBS investigation.

Photo of Douglas Badger, a Sexually Violent Predator, was recently released from the San Diego Superior Court and proposed to be placed in Borrego Springs, Calif. The photo was taken on July 5, 2022.

Sexually violent predator proposed for placement in Borrego Springs home

State hospital officials have proposed placing a 79- year-old man classified as a sexually violent predator at a supervised home in Borrego Springs, it was announced Wednesday.

A disputed document by one of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, depicted here in a painting by Thomas Rossiter, has been cited in a Supreme Court case about a once-fringe legal theory that could reshape federal elections.

A controversial election theory at the Supreme Court is tied to a disputed document

The reliability of a document by one of the U.S. Constitution's framers has long been under serious doubt. North Carolina Republicans cited it in a case that could upend election laws.

It cost $38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug

Lupron, a drug patented half a century ago, treats advanced prostate cancer. It costs a few hundred dollars in the U.K. — so why are U.S. hospitals charging so much more to administer it?

Climate activist and Pajaro Valley High School senior Denia Escutia, 18, looks around her mud-coated bedroom in Pajaro, California on March 24, 2023. Days earlier, residents began returning to their homes after a levee breach flooded the area several weeks earlier.

Why California's floods may be 'only a taste' of what's to come in a warmer world

Climate scientists say this winter's storms in California are nothing compared to what's predicted in a warmer world. Some residents in one community question whether its time to leave.

Blacktail Deer Creek in Yellowstone National Park, seen here in a 2019 photo from the ecological study known as NEON, is one site where researchers have bubbled sulfur hexafluoride into the water.

Why scientists have pumped a potent greenhouse gas into streams on public lands

A 30-year, nationwide study of ecological changes — including the effects of climate warming — has been releasing a powerful greenhouse gas, and critics want it to stop.

Songwriter Lamont Dozier in 2013. He co-wrote songs that helped define the Motown sound. He died Monday at 81.

Songwriter Lamont Dozier, who co-wrote hits for the Supremes and Four Tops, has died

Dozier died at 81. As part of the songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland, he co-wrote dozens of hits, including "Baby Love," "Heat Wave" and "Reflections," helping to define the Motown sound.

DAVID TENNANT as Alec Hardy and OLIVIA COLMAN as Ellie Miller in BROADCHURCH Episode 4

BROADCHURCH: Season 1

Stream all 3 Seasons now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Saturday, Jan. 10 from 9 - 11 then Saturdays Jan. 17 - Feb. 21 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. When a young boy is murdered, this small town of Broadchurch in Dorset suddenly becomes the focus of a major event in the full glare of the media spotlight. DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant) and DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) lead the investigation.

Vice President Kamala Harris hugs Highland Park, Ill., Mayor Nancy Rotering on Tuesday as she visits the site of Monday's mass shooting that killed seven people and injured dozens.

Harris calls for renewing the assault weapons ban after Highland Park mass shooting

"Congress needs to have the courage to act and renew the assault weapons ban," Harris told a teachers convention in Chicago before visiting the shooting scene at nearby Highland Park.

The long-awaited Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial opened in November, nearly 10 years after the Dec. 14, 2012, school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twenty first-graders and six adults were shot and killed by a young man with an AR-15-style rifle.

10 years after Sandy Hook, a family finds bits of joy amid shards of pain

Families who had their lives shattered on Dec. 14, 2012, are still straining under the weight of their losses — and still pushing for the changes they had hoped would have already happened by now.

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