San Diego Union Tribune

• ‘Don’t change course:’ San Diego County leaders celebrate a drop in homelessness

  This year's point-in-time count did raise questions, including why numbers are up in East County's largest city.

• As drop in cigarette tax money threatens San Diego child services, supervisors step in to OK $4.3M

  The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to backfill the funding to First 5, a program providing health and developmental services for young children.

• San Diego’s NASSCO gets $200M to overhaul one of Navy’s biggest ships

  The USS America is currently in Japan but is scheduled to return to San Diego Bay later this year.

• Venezuela frees US Air Force veteran considered wrongfully detained, his family says

  Joseph St. Clair was handed over to the envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell.

• Hegseth orders new review of Afghanistan withdrawal and suicide bombing at Kabul airport

  The Pentagon, U.S. Central Command, the State Department and Congress have already reviewed the withdrawal.

• 20 people, health care business and church charged in sober living scheme in Arizona

  The charges against Happy House Behavioral Health include conspiracy, fraud, forgery, theft and money laundering.

• Racist memes shared by Navy SEALs prompt investigation, disciplinary actions

  The memes depicted the sailor as a slave.

• Former Capitol riot defendant is convicted of gun charges stemming from his arrest near Obama’s home

  Taylor Taranto was also convicted making a hoax threat to bomb a Maryland government building.

• Loose pet kangaroo keeps police hopping — again — in a Colorado town

  Kangaroos are among the unusual but legal animals to keep in Colorado.

• Biden’s office says his ‘last known’ prostate cancer screening was in 2014

  Biden’s cancer has spread to his bones and is no longer curable.