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Republicans, fresh off electoral wins this week, are looking ahead to the 2010 midterms with their hit lists ready. Some of their top House targets: Blue Dog Democrats, many of whom have pushed back on the president's top domestic initiatives.

Most homeless people lack insurance and rely on the emergency room and government-funded clinics for treatment. Advocates say the existing system is both inadequate and expensive for taxpayers, and that expanding Medicaid to include the homeless is a better option.

San Diego City Councilmember Carl DeMaio has been in office one year. We ask him about the accomplishments of the year past, the current and on-going budget crisis, his views on outsourcing city services, his relationship with the Mayor and what he hopes to see for the city in 2010.

Now that the off-year elections are over, Democrats are bracing for losses in Congress next year — and history tells them they should. A first-term president's party almost always loses seats during the midterm elections.

The cost of handling claims and lawsuits against the city of San Diego has more than tripled in recent years, and the tab is still running in a few of the most expensive legal battles, including those against developer Roque de la Fuente and the city’s own police officers.

U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps continued his quest for a record seven gold medals in a single Olympics, winning the 200-meter individual medley. And Americans Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson took gold and silver in the women's individual all-around gymnastics competition.

News that the CIA worked with a private contractor on a secret assassination program is the latest evidence of how much the agency has outsourced a range of its activities, including covert missions.

Scott Simon reflects this week on the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in Serbia.

Employers eliminated a net total of 216,000 jobs in August as the nation's jobless rate reached its highest level since June 1983. But the number of job cuts is the smallest decline in payrolls in a year.

The USS Kitty Hawk will sail out of San Diego Harbor this morning. The aircraft carrier is on her way to be decommissioned in Bremerton. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.