Jared Servantez

5 days ago | kqed.org | Jared Servantez |Katie DeBenedetti |Brian Watt |Ethan Toven-Lindsey

May 9Failed to save articlePlease try againTens of thousands of Bay Area transit riders woke up Friday to find no BART service at all. Above, a BART train at the Civic Center station is shown last year. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)Updated 10:15 a.m.BART has resumed service across its entire system after an hours-long outage Friday morning forced tens of thousands of riders to find other ways to get around the Bay Area.

1 week ago | kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Jared Servantez

May 2Failed to save articlePlease try againPeople participate in a rally to call on Congress to protect funding for U.S. public broadcasters, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), outside the NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., on March 26, 2025.

Feb 6, 2025 | kqed.org | Katie DeBenedetti |Jared Servantez

Feb 6Failed to save articlePlease try againA photo of Hall Road in Santa Rosa, California, posted to the Sonoma County Sheriff Facebook page on Feb. 6, 2025.  (Courtesy of Sonoma County Sherif)Neither man’s identity was released pending notification of family.

Jan 23, 2025 | kqed.org | Jared Servantez

Eugene Johnson and Mike Catalini, Associated PressJan 23Failed to save articlePlease try againU.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. (Jim Watson/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)The U.S. is among about 30 countries where birthright citizenship — the principle of jus soli or “right of the soil” — is applied. Most are in the Americas, and Canada and Mexico are among them.

Jan 22, 2025 | kqed.org | Jared Servantez

Jan 22Failed to save articlePlease try againA Sonoma State basketball player guards a Stanford player at Maples Pavilion in 2009.  (Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)Sonoma State is facing a projected budget deficit of $23.9 million, and the California State University system as a whole could be staring down a $1 billion shortfall in the 2025–26 academic year as funding and enrollment both shrink while costs continue to rise.