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Nonpartisan Sacramento political consultant Leo McElroy discusses Schwarzenegger's furlough ruling, proposition 14, and the upcoming November general election.

Alitalia is on the verge of liquidation in a few weeks. Now the only hope for Italy's flagship air carrier is a controversial rescue plan proposed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. But the plan would lay off thousands and could face obstacles in the European Union.

The head of the American Red Cross in Haiti says the country should brace for a series of public health aftershocks. First, people dying from untreated injuries. Then, a wave of sickness from lack of clean water and housing. And finally, starvation when what little food there is runs out.

It's been more than a month since a cyclone ravaged Myanmar and killed 78,000 people, leaving another 56,000 missing. The United Nations says that to date, relief aid has reached only half of the more than 2 million survivors. Aid workers and survivors describe the disaster and conditions since Cyclone Nargis.

Thousands of wealthy foreigners have gotten visas by investing at least $500,000 in a new business that will create jobs in the U.S. While some think everyone wins under this arrangement, others scoff at what they say is a "pay to play" system.

Students from the San Diego Jewish Academy will join local Holocaust survivors for a day of remembrance. Full Focus reporter Heather Hill has more on the ceremony and their international project for R

A lot of BP's oil eventually winds up in the gas tanks of American cars, so you'd think the current crisis on the Gulf Coast might make people think twice at the pump. Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio sets out to talk to customers at a gas station and find out what they think about the spill, and the decisions they make as consumers.

The San Diego city council has agreed to hold more evening meetings, to make it easier for people to get involved in city business. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

Setting his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness, V.S. Ramachandran reveals what baffling and extreme case studies can teach us about normal brain function and how it evolved. In his new book, the neuroscientist takes us on a tour of some seemingly inexplicable behaviors of the brain. For instance, how can a totally blind person locate a spot of light on a wall? Or, a patient in coma wake up to answer the phone and then lapse back into a coma?

Union workers demonstrated in at least a dozen countries to protest government spending cuts and tax hikes. Brussels braced for a major rally, transit employees walked out in Greece and Spain, and a man even blocked the Irish Parliament with a cement truck.