Meet the Team

Amal Younis

Assistant News Producer and Gloria Penner Fellow

Amal Younis served an assistant news producer and was the Gloria Penner Fellow at KPBS. In her role, she helped with KPBS Evening Edition and KPBS Roundtable production and editing. She was also the multimedia editor for The Daily Aztec at San Diego State University and was previously a video editor for One America News Network. Amal is Egyptian, born and raised, and moved to the United States as an international student to attend SDSU. She is currently a journalism senior who started her journalism journey in 2017 and has found a passion for broadcast journalism ever since.

RECENT STORIES ON KPBS

Politics

First unofficial election results expected after 8 p.m. Tuesday

City News Service

The first unofficial election results are expected after 8 p.m. Tuesday, and will include mail ballots received before today and vote center ballots from between Oct. 27 and Monday, according to the county of San Diego Communications Office.
Science & Technology

Baby black-footed ferrets first to be born to a cloned mom

Jaclyn Diaz

Black-footed ferrets are one of the most endangered mammals in North America with only an estimated 370 in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
National

Voters could make recreational weed legal in a majority of U.S. states

Bill Chappell

Voters in three states will decide whether to legalize recreational use. Earlier this year, Pew reported that 88% of U.S. adults said marijuana should be legal for medical or recreational use.
International

Benjamin Netanyahu fires Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, replaces him with Israel Katz

The Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has replaced his popular defense minister, Yoav Gallant, with Israel Katz, who was the foreign minister. The surprise move has sparked protests across Israel.
Arts & Culture

Chicano youth artist combines activism with art to get out the vote

Julia Dixon Evans

Christian Arreguin is voting for the first time in this year's general election. Through the Alliance San Diego youth artist-in-residence program, he's also making art to inspire civic engagement among young people in his Chicano community.
Science & Technology

Baby Haggis is the new Moo Deng: A pygmy hippo is born in Edinburgh

Jaclyn Diaz

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo announced their own tiny pygmy hippo, named Haggis, was born Oct. 30. The newborn, female calf is "doing well," according to zoo staff.