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Skilled trade workers plan to strike at CSU campuses, Salinas healthcare workers wait for their first union contract, Monarch butterfly population continues to decline, and more in this week's local news roundup.
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Local instrumental rock trio Yeobo release debut album "Keeping Score" on Valentine's Day
- Salinas musician Flaco El Jandro enters original song "Cobarde" in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest
- WATCH: Actor Nick Offerman brings woodworking and bookish mirth to Monterey
- Comedian Samantha Bee Finds the Funny in Menopause
- Actor William Shatner brings classic Star Trek film to Monterey
- NPR Journalist and cabaret singer Ari Shapiro brings songs and stories to Santa Cruz
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North Korea said Monday it completed a new housing district in Pyongyang for families of North Korean soldiers killed while fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. -
Is America still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer to autocracy or may already be there. -
A top European Union official on Sunday rejected the notion that Europe faces "civilizational erasure," pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration. -
The FBI says a glove containing DNA was found about two miles from Nancy Guthrie's Arizona home and appears to match those worn by a masked person outside her front door the night she vanished. -
As the Munich Security Conference wraps up, reassurances from Marco Rubio met a Europe questioning whether it can — and must — stand on its own.
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As Congress stalls on DHS funding and debates body cameras and warrants for ICE raids, former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano talks about the department's past and future.
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Tom Homan says this federal force will stay "for a short period of time" to protect immigration agents who remain as the sweeping crackdown draws down. -
More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed "a wave of intense violence" in Sudan's Darfur region in late October, according to the UN. -
"There doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum," Obama said in an interview that was posted on YouTube Saturday. -
Matilda Brindle, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford, explains.
