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The World Health Organization raised its alert level Monday as new cases of swine flu were discovered throughout the world. In Mexico, officials took the extraordinary step of closing all schools throughout the country until May 6. It's the latest effort to try to contain the virus.

When President Obama announced that the government would own 60 percent of General Motors, he said the company's executives would still call the shots. But lawmakers have lobbied the White House and GM over a range of issues.

Sen. John McCain will let a few members of the media look at his health records on Friday. The 71-year-old Arizona senator has a history of melanoma and injuries from his days as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Recently, I grabbed my friend Lee and embarked on a grand quest to find cool t-shirts in San Diego. In normal times, shops that sell artistic t-shirts appear and disappear at Whack-a-Mole speed. But this economy has turned the San Diego t-shirt industry into a horror movie.

We started the morning with two infant burial sites. Life can be rough for little gorillas. For one thing, infanticide is common, just as it is among many primate species.

In the history of the world, every culture in every location at every point in time has developed some supernatural belief system. And believing in God may have been evolutionarily advantageous to humans as it provided a framework for promoting social good.

San Diego's Office of Emergency Services will fund a campaign this summer to urge residents to create defensible space to protect their homes from wildfires. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

Female refugees face security and health threats that are unique to their gender. Host Debbie Elliott discusses the struggles and resilience of women displaced by war with Zainab Salbi, president of Women for Women International.

Young Muslims in the U.S. are becoming radicalized in a new way: on the Internet. Clerics such as Abdullah Faisal are directing the young men to take up violent jihad. Faisal, who recently set up shop in Jamaica, has alleged ties to terrorist plots around the world.

Samak Sundaravej has had a 40-year career in Thailand's politics, but it's not clear whether he can ride out the country's latest political crisis.