Gay 'cure' ministry Exodus International apologizes, shuts down operations; Japanese-Americans seek historic status for Tuna Canyon detention station; Neighborhoods: A feast of history and culture await you in LA's Koreatown; Looming loan rate increase has students worried; Border counties struggle to prosecute drug offenses due to budget cuts; In Phoenix, zombie subdivisions wake from slumber; Hulu series 'East Los High' depicts Latino teen life in Los Angeles, plus much more.
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• 10:22
After nearly 40 years, Exodus International Ministry is shutting its doors. Exodus advocated a so-called cure for homosexuality through therapy, an idea was a beacon for believers but a lightning rod for critics.
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• 4:04
California congressional representatives are joining students in the nation's capital today to try to stop a student loan interest rate hike. If Congress doesn't act by July 1st, rates on federally-subsidized loans will double.
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• 5:30
The Senate is nearing a compromise on the border security aspect of the immigration bill that has been debated all week.
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• 6:15
Due to budget cuts, it's become increasingly common for small-scale drug smugglers to be let go without facing charges.
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• 3:39
During the Great Recession, Arizona home builders abandoned neighborhoods that were only half built. The so-called zombie subdivisions left a ring of unfinished construction around the city. But now, as Peter O'Dowd reports from the Fronteras Desk in Phoenix, the zombies are waking up.
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• 7:05
The video streaming service Hulu might have figured out the right formula with the first English-language show with an all-Latino cast.
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• 7:56
This weekend if you’re looking for friends, fun, and lots and lots of beef you could do worse than a trip to Koreatown
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• 8:49
Now for our weekly check in on southern California politics. We're joined by KPCC political reporters Alice Walton and Frank Stoltze.
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• 5:52
Silicon Valley has long had a cozy relationship with the NSA. It's a relationship reporter Nick Wingfield has been writing about for the New York Times.
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• 4:57
A campaign is underway to designate land that once housed a WWII internment camp in the San Fernando Valley as a cultural historic site. KPCC’s Josie Huang reports.
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• 4:06
Have you ever wondered what 1 billion-year-old water tastes like? Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar from the University of Toronto knows. She had the unusual opportunity of tasting some during a research project in a zinc and copper mine in Ontario, Canada.
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• 6:52
Water sommelier Martin Riese, creator of 9OH2O, demonstrates why the taste of water you're drinking is as important as even the finest wines.
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• 5:23
Musician and illustrator Keaton Henson stopped by the Take Two studio to talk about his new album and what the song "You" means to him.
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• 5:26
Every week we get your weekend conversation starters with Rico Gagliano and Brendan Newnam, the hosts of the Dinner Party Download podcast and radio show.
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• 5:01
Today we remember actor James Gandolfini who died of an apparent heart attack while on vacation in Rome. "The Sopranos" star was 51 years old. Director Allen Coulter worked with Gandolfini as a producer and director on the HBO hit and he joins the show with a remembrance.