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Photos: Campus protests continue, police make arrests and clear encampments

Photojournalists at NPR member stations documented protests at college and university campuses nationwide this week.

WEKU · May 10, 2024

The ultimate green burial? Human composting lets you replenish the earth after death

Only seven states have legalized human composting as a burial practice. That's why 29 percent of the bodies brought to Recompose, a composting facility in Seattle, come from out of state.

WEKU · Mar 22, 2024

Photographer David Johnson, who chronicled San Francisco's Black culture, dies at 97

Johnson studied with Ansel Adams in the 1940s and became known as one of the foremost photographers of San Francisco's Black urban culture.

WEKU · Mar 17, 2024

It keeps people with schizophrenia in school and on the job. Why won't insurance pay?

A new approach to schizophrenia involves managing early psychosis symptoms and keeping young people in school or jobs. The treatment is effective, but private insurance plans don't usually cover it.

WEKU · Jan 2, 2024

This trial struck down California's same-sex marriage ban. Now you can see the tapes

More than a decade after the trial to overturn Prop. 8 ended, trial videotapes remained sealed, until NPR member station KQED won a long legal battle that got the U.S. Supreme Court to unseal them.

WEKU · Nov 4, 2023

On-field student protest delays start of USC-Cal game

A protest over the suspension of a professor took place on the field before USC-Cal

USA Today Sports Media Group · Oct 28, 2023

Kaiser hospital strike begins with 75,000 workers joining picket lines across the US

‘No agreement can be made until Kaiser executives stop bargaining in bad faith and committing unfair labor practices,’ said the executive director of the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2023

At new mental health courts in California, judges will be able to mandate treatment

In several California counties, new mental health courts open up in October. Officials hope to persuade people with psychosis to accept treatment. Critics say, it looks more like coercion.

WEKU · Sep 20, 2023

Maui's wildfires are among the deadliest on record in the U.S. Here are some others

The wildfires that killed more than 100 people in Maui are the deadliest to hit the U.S. in more than a century. Here's a look back at some of the country's most lethal blazes and lessons learned.

WEKU · Aug 15, 2023

Thirty tonnes of explosive chemicals go missing in the Mojave Desert

Ammonium nitrate can be turned into fertilizer or bombs, and was used by Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 Oklahoma City terrorist attack

The Independent UK · May 22, 2023