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At 10:21 this morning, more than seven million people across California are expected to drop cover and hold. It’s part of California’s annual earthquake drill – The Great California Shakeout. The event comes at time when scientists are warning a large-scale earthquake is long overdue.

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In recent years, many big cities have suffered epidemics of fatal heat stroke, and scientists predict more-frequent heat waves. But global warming isn't the only factor. Big cities also create their own heat.

Voters in the county’s second-largest city placed incumbent mayor Steve Padilla in a distant second place behind Chula Vista School Board member Cheryl Cox in a June primary. Reporter Amita Sharma ex

More than a dozen Roman Catholic women in the U.S. who claim to have been ordained as priests during a ceremony on July 31 are now facing the threat of ex-communication and public condemnation. Critics say the women are not only breaking church law, they're undermining the women's movement in the church.

The death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko -- attributed to poisoning with radioactive Polonium-210 -- continues to perplex authorities in London. Did he have blood on his own hands? David Wise, who writes about international espionage, discusses Litvinenko with Scott Simon.

Modern sinus surgery is a lot less brutal than it was 30 years ago. And a lot more people -- around 300,000 a year -- are getting it. It's not a cure, but it could improve a patient's quality of life.

Zimbabwe sees political unrest, as President Robert Mugabe attempts to postpone the country's presidential election. Meanwhile, thousands of protesters take to the streets after Mugabe refuses to let an opposition party host a public rally. Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks with Farai Chideya.

A San Diego theater stages a play about an outsider artist, reminding me of one who lives close by in the California desert. This is the story of our trip to meet Leonard Knight and climb his Salvation Mountain.

San Diego's largest book fair boasts readings by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Rae Armantrout and by the fair's founders, local professors Jim Miller and Kelly Mayhew, each of whom have new books.