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The dust is still settling after the California budget passed last week. And one of the questions on a lot of peoples' minds is how redevelopment projects will be affected. Redevelopment money - the property tax increment that local governments can keep for building projects in their own communities - has been a major driver of economic growth.

Floating through space right now is a golden record carrying sounds of Earth: a mother's first words to her baby, the sound of a kiss, and music from all over the world. Ann Druyan helped to create the NASA project as a guide to Earth for aliens. And like any good mix tape — interstellar or not — it led to the man of her dreams.

BP said a mile-long tube was funneling crude Sunday from a blown well to a tanker ship after three days of wrestling to get the stopgap measure into place on the seafloor. Meanwhile, scientists have found huge plumes of oil lurking under the surface of the water.

Museums are big business. More than 850 million people visited America's 17,500-plus museums last year. Yet many museums are struggling financially to stay afloat. We'll talk about the role museums

At their first Cabinet meeting Thursday, onetime rivals Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy, Nick Clegg, portrayed their coalition as the new face of British politics. But to tackle Britain's problems, they'll have to overcome deep ideological differences between and within their own parties.

In Lancaster, S.C., the town's largest employer has shut down, leaving hundreds of textile workers wondering how they will deal with the economic downturn. Some are learning new skills to survive, but others feel lost.

A 10-person team from San Diego is back home after a medical trip to Haiti. The president and CEO of Scripps Health tells us how the crew prepared for conditions in Port-au-Prince.

The Washington Post's David Ignatius says that over the past two years, Syria has been negotiating indirectly with Israel through Turkey, and is ready for direct talks with the Jewish state if the U.S. gets involved.

Green Berets use an elite Ranger-style program to train Iraqi troops in Kirkuk. But the Iraqi trainees arrive with little prior training, and some can't read or write. Those who survive the program -- designed to weed out one in four applicants -- are assessed among Iraq's better troops.

Researchers at UCSD are developing a tool that can be installed in cell phones to help guide illegal immigrants to water and safety while crossing the border from Mexico to the United States. We discuss the tool and how it might impact those trying to cross the border and those trying to stop them.