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Tune into KPBS Evening Edition's special coverage of Comic-Con Friday!

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A koala joey born last fall at the San Diego Zoo has recently emerged from her mother's pouch.

"At this age, she has not shown us her personality yet,” zoo keeper Lacy Pearson said.

But judging from this video of the joey’s first check up, we beg to differ. 

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Worn out from the political rabble-rousing and election mailers? Cheer up: The California primary is right around the corner.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to voting on June 7. 

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It all started with a lion’s roar.

Dr. Harry Wegeforth founded the San Diego Zoo in 1916 after driving past Balboa Park and hearing a big cat roar from a small zoo exhibit in the 1915-1916 Panama California Exposition, which had closed earlier that year.

This Saturday, @sdzoo​ celebrates 100 years at Balboa Park. Check out more photos and learn more about the zoo’s history here. 

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KPBS hosted a debate Tuesday night for the top contenders in the U.S. Senate race. Some highlights:

Front-runner Kamala Harris deflected questions about San Onofre. 

Duf Sundheim repeatedly went after her. 

Tom Del Beccaro said it's time for the U.S. to give up on immigration reform. 

Loretta Sanchez debated in what one political scientist compares to Ted Cruz’s Shakespearean style. 

Ron Unz boasted about his training as a physicist before saying he’s not “persuaded that the evidence is there” for climate change. 

You can watch the debate here. 

(📷: Milan Kovacevic)

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The Island Fox is a diminutive and docile fox unique to California’s Channel Islands. In fact, they are the only carnivore unique to California. They are broken up into six subspecies, living on and named after 6 of the 8 Channel Islands.

A new study has revealed that they are unique in another incredible way: they are nearly genetically identical to one another. A lack of genetic diversity can pose serious threats to survival, yet the Island Fox population has been recovering for the last few years (though they are still listed as ‘near threatened’). Read more about this trait and how it may affect the future of the foxes here.  

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Fliers naming students "who have allied themselves with Palestinian terrorists" that were recently posted around California universities have stirred up inflammatory rhetoric about terrorism and anti-Semitism.

This week, we sat down with an Israeli and a Palestinian to dig deeper into the issue. Here’s what they said.

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Meet Brett and Guille. They'll be sharing a vote this election season. Read more about the project here: http://kpbs.us/1oGux5Z

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These are all horror films KPBS film critic Beth Accomando ( @cinebeth ) has recommended for 30 Days Of Streaming Horror. She is recommending a horror film a day every day in October. The best part is that all of the films she is recommending are available to be streamed online.

View her recommendations here and follow along for the rest of the month: 30 Days Of Streaming Horror 

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(It's about) sisterhood and respect. And Girl Scouts is all about confidence, so all of the things that come with the Girl Scouts but at the same time having pride in their culture and pride in who they are.

Girl Scout Troop 4307 leader Bethlehem Degu who leads an East African Girl Scout troop in San Diego.

Full story: East African Girl Scouts In San Diego Learn Heritage, Female Leadership

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"Amazons and Their Men," a play being performed at Diversionary Theatre in University Heights is inspired by German director Leni Riefenstahl. 

If Riefenstahl were judged on her filmmaking skills alone then she might reside in the cinematic pantheon with Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa and Federico Fellini. Unfortunately, her groundbreaking documentaries "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia" were commissioned by the Third Reich, making Adolf Hitler her boss.

The play runs through Oct. 4. 

Full story: Controversial German Director Leni Riefenstahl Inspires ‘Amazons And Their Men’

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Bayard Rustin was the chief architect of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

Rustin, an outspoken activist, skilled strategist and charismatic leader in his own right, was pushed out of the historical spotlight because he was openly gay.

He is the subject of “Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin," which is getting its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse this month.

Full story: Lost Prophet Of Civil Rights Movement Is Focus Of New La Jolla Playhouse Production

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A display of 8,700 pairs of shoes was set up Tuesday in downtown San Diego to represent the number of homeless men, women and children in the county.

Full story: 8,700 Pairs Of Shoes Displayed To Represent San Diego County’s Homeless

Photo credit: Susan Murphy / KPBS

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Yo La Tengo played all of the music heard between stories on NPR’s Morning Edition today… and it got a kinda loud. 

Photos: Lani Milton/NPR

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I’m still recovering from how cool it was to hear Yo La Tengo live on the radio this morning. -Emily

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Did you hear Yo La Tengo during Morning Edition? What local band would you like to hear play live on KPBS?

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"Perhaps seeing how much we'll have to adapt, and how much it will cost, will give us the inspiration and the will to deal with emissions now, so we don't have to adapt to even bigger impacts later on.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography Director Margaret Leinen on climate change

Full story: New San Diego Research Center Plans Deeper Dive On Climate Change

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See the world’s biggest heart. 

It’s almost 400 pounds and the size of a golf cart.

Big Blue Live premieres on PBS beginning August 31st.

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You can watch Big Blue Live on KPBS-TV beginning August 31 through September 2. It airs at 5 p.m.

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The Barrio Logan College Institute is an after-school program that serves low-income families, mostly Mexican immigrants, in Barrio Logan, Chula Vista and other parts of San Diego County. The method is two-fold: start preparing students for college in elementary school and involve the whole family in the planning process.

Early-start, family-focused programs like BLCI are becoming increasingly common across the United States to address the needs of the rising immigrant population. 

Full story: Barrio Logan Education Program Sends More Immigrants To College

Photo: Sarabi Rodriguez, 17, discusses her college plans with her family at the Barrio Logan College Institute, Aug. 6, 2015. Photo credit: Katie Schoolov / KPBS