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This year, Hoover Dam celebrated its 75th anniversary. The giant dam near Las Vegas stores Colorado River water for much of the Southwestern U.S.

The Democratic-led Senate has pushed through the largest rewrite of financial regulations since the aftermath of the Great Depression. But some Republicans and liberal Democrats say the bill, which must be reconciled with a similar House measure, falls short of its goal.

Airs Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

ANALYSIS: The deal suggests President Obama may be betting that he can spend the next two years running against popular distaste for both major political parties. That's what President Clinton did on his way to reelection.

Despite the Ice Age and competition from the evolving Homo sapiens, Neanderthals were able to survive for thousands of years longer than many researchers once thought. A discovery in a cave in Gibraltar means Neanderthals survived at least 2,000 years longer than once thought.

Culture Lust rounds up some of San Diego's best, most interesting, and most surprising art stories from the weekend so you've got plenty of material for this week's water cooler chatter.

As more women postpone motherhood, they're hitting that age-old constraint: the biological clock. Now, technology is dangling the possibility that women can stop that clock, at least for a while. As one doctor put it, freezing eggs offers the biggest game changer since the birth control pill.

While drug trafficking is not new to the region, the volume of drugs and levels of violence have increased in recent years. In Guatemala, experts warn that the volatile mix of a weak state, powerful drug traffickers, lots of weapons and intractable poverty could cause a collapse.

Despite scores of FBI intercepts, many local Somalis think the government's case against four area San Diegans is fabricated and believe their community remains caught in the crosshairs of 9/11.

Violence escalated in Baja California this week as three police officers from Tijuana and Rosarito were killed in less than 24 hours. The killers have threatened to murder five police officers a week until Tijuana's police chief resigns.