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In key races across the nation, candidates won -- and lost -- in part because of the television and Web ads they ran. The Message Machine looks at nine ads that were truly unique and really made a difference in the 2010 campaign.

California spends 11 percent of its budget on its overcrowded prisons. We'll look at why costs continue to rise particularly for the aging prison population.

The Los Angeles suburb of Commerce is a hotbed for training young water polo players. Two members of the women's Olympic water polo team trained in Commerce and are important role models for the 9- to 16-year-old hopefuls.

The War Crimes Act covers combat offenses committed by people who are not active military personnel. NPR has obtained a draft copy of the administration's proposed changes, which would exclude "humiliating and degrading treatment" from the category of war crimes.

The Supreme Court hears arguments on some law schools' objections to military recruiters on campus. The schools are asking the court to overturn a law that withdraws federal funds if the schools don't allow the military the same access and help that it gives other employers who recruit on campus.

The past ten years have been rocky for San Diego's Islamic community, we hear first-hand what they dealt with after 9/11

If you want to see some fireworks this Fourth of July, then we've got you covered. We'll also get the skinny on the new restaurants in town.

As the Easter earthquake shook Southern California, the state's disaster management chief was thousands of miles away in Chile, examining what experts say is the best case study yet for how a truly catastrophic earthquake could impact the United States.

The KPBS documentary, Building Expectations, focuses on Lincoln High School -- one of the most expensive campuses in the county, built in one the poorest neighborhoods. Lincoln was supposed to provide a route to college for their kids - the majority of whom live in poverty. But as Lincoln’s first freshman class prepares for graduation, few are destined for college. We'll discuss the expectations set for Lincoln high school and whether the school is living up to them.

Several decades after Argentina's Dirty War, Oscar-award winning Luis Bacalov's opera The Mother Was There traces the experiences of mothers searching for their children who vanished during the war.