The Mission, the first program in KQED's series Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco, premiered in December, 1994. The one-hour documentary, which traces the rich history of San Francisco's Mission District, has received three local Emmy nominations and a Bronze Apple from the National Educational Film and Video Festival.

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Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco is an ongoing television series designed to explore the rich history of this unique American city. From the earliest Native American villages of the Mission District to the ethnic enclaves of Chinatown and North Beach, each program will reveal the city as a mosaic of communities with interconnecting pasts. Viewers drawn to the fascinating stories will discover meaningful connections between their daily lives and the deeper histories we share. As we continue to grow in our appreciation of diverse cultures, Neighborhoods will deliver viewers a crucial sense of the traditions that link us, not only to the past, but to one another.

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Jupiter’s fiery moon Io appears a violent and chaotic place in the best-ever images ever taken by a NASA spacecraft of the tortured world. In the wake of the first image, NASA has now released five more that together are the best for 22 years of the small moon.

Io is the most volcanic world in the solar system, with eruptions orders of magnitude bigger than anything similar on Earth.

Juno performed its closest pass yet of Io on December 30, reaching within 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the moon’s pockmarked surface.

Io is so volcanic, mainly because of the gravitational pull of Jupiter, which causes the moon to be tugged one way and another during its orbit. The added gravitational effects of Jupiter's three other giant moons, Ganymede, Europa and Callisto, worsen this frictional tidal heating.

The moon’s turbulent 42-hour orbit of Jupiter produces immense heat, which scientists think creates an ocean of magma under its rocky surface.

One of its most significant features is Loki Patera, Io’s most extensive volcanic depression and most energetic hotspot, which contains a lake or sea of lava.

Juno's mission since 2016 has conducted close flybys of three of Jupiter's giant Galilean moons—Europa, Ganymede, and Io. The fourth, Callisto, will be visited on flybys 21 times by the European Space Agency's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer between July 2031 and December 2034.

JUICE will also fly by Europa and Ganymede, eventually settling into an orbit of the latter moon. NASA’s Europa Clipper also tours Jupiter's moons from 2030, focusing on Europa. However, Io is not on the roster of any future space mission.

Several missions to Io have been considered by NASA for its Discovery Program in the past, most recently in 2021 when the Io Volcano Observer (IVO) lost out to two missions to Venus, DAVINCI+ and VERITAS.

Juno orbits Jupiter every 38 days; during 2024, it will make 11 perijoves (close passes of Jupiter’s clouds). The next, its 58th, will occur on February 3, involving a second and final close flyby of Io of an equally close 930 miles.

Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.

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Hannah Giles, the chief executive of Project Veritas, said Monday she has stepped down from her role at the right-wing group “effective immediately,” after discovering evidence that the organization has engaged in “past illegalities.”

“Though I had high hopes when I joined the organizations, I stepped into an unsalvageable mess — one wrought with strong evidence of past illegality and past financial improprieties,” Giles wrote in a post on X. “Once such evidence was discovered, I brought the information to the appropriate law enforcement agencies.”

Project Veritas did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment.

The right-wing group, which was created by James O’Keefe in 2010, is known for its selectively edited undercover sting videos that target journalists and progressive groups, including CNN and The New York Times. The edited videos published by Project Veritas often champion disinformation and conspiracy theories — and have been further circulated by Fox News and other right-wing media organizations to help grow the group’s sphere of influence.

Giles was appointed to the top job in June 2023, four months after the organization’s previous chief executive, O’Keefe, was ousted from the group.

The removal of O’Keefe from the nonprofit organization that he founded came after an internal memo signed by members of the staff and presented to the group’s board alleged that O’Keefe was “outright cruel” to his employees. Project Veritas later said James “spent an excessive amount of donor funds” on “personal luxuries,” including $150,000 in black car services and a chartered flight.

In August, the Westchester County, New York, district attorney’s office confirmed reports it was investigating the allegations against O’Keefe.

• President Joe Biden earlier this year said his administration would crack down on hidden fees.

• But lobbyists are pushing back against proposed rules that could boost transparency, per WaPo.

• WaPo examined federal lobbying files and hundreds of filings that were sent to federal agencies.

From a dizzying array of airline fees to add-ons tacked on to concert ticket prices, Americans are fed up with hidden fees.

And they have an ally in President Joe Biden, who during his State of the Union address earlier this year vowed to crack down on the add-ons, often called junk fees, which when affixed to subtotals can make a simple hotel stay or a round-trip flight financially out of reach.

Biden wants to go after the practice and push companies to increase pricing transparency for consumer purchases, and his administration has targeted a swath of industries across the larger US economy, from airlines and ticket sales companies to banking institutions and credit card companies.

But corporations and their lobbyists are aggressively fighting back against proposed rules that would compel them to be more transparent about hidden fees, according to The Washington Post.

The Post analyzed federal lobbying files and filings sent to federal agencies as the administration pushes to save US consumers from collectively spending billions of dollars in fees each year.

One area where consumers have often lodged complaints is toward the airline industry. Travelers have long spoken out in favor of airlines revealing the true cost of tickets earlier in the sale process. And Biden wants airlines to oblige to what consumers have asked for regarding pricing.

But major US-based airlines, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines, are not thrilled with the prospect of such a change, which consumers have advocated for in numerous letters submitted to the Department of Transportation (DOT).

Doug Mullen, the deputy general counsel at the lobbying group Airlines for America, said at a hearing earlier this year that such a change would create "confusion and frustration," and he remarked that the DOT "should not regulate in this area."

Airlines for America lobbies on behalf of the three aforementioned US air carriers, which transport millions of fliers domestically and internationally each year.

According to the DOT, the airline industry took in nearly $6.8 billion in baggage fees in 2022. American Airlines collected almost $1.4 billion in baggage fees, the domestic industry leader last year.

Per The Post, the DOT has sought to create guidelines regarding how airlines should issue refunds, as well as rules for adding checked bag fees and tacking on change fees. But airlines have been critical of the efforts, with carriers stating that the department's proposals may be impractical.

Regarding concert fees, another sore spot for consumers, Live Nation executive vice president for corporate and regulatory affairs Dan Wall told The Post that the company cannot create mandates for venues that it doesn't own. But he said that federal regulations on company disclosures would make certain that "everybody does it so that nobody is disadvantaged for doing the right thing."

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