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Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis' nomination is being considered Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee. He is likely to face questions about remarks he made in 2005 about killing members of the Taliban.

After last week's tepid jobs numbers, President Obama promised a "relentless" effort to keep the economy growing. But a Gallup Poll released last month showed Americans are just about as concerned with government debt as they are with unemployment, so the president's options are limited.

We discuss whether California needs to enact stricter correction and incarceration guidelines for sex offenders.

Country Noir? Maybe Not But It Is Dark

A batch of newly declassified CIA documents indicates the United States and the South Korean government were caught unprepared for the conflict, in part because of intelligence failures and mistaken assumptions. Arguably, the United States is still paying the price for the intelligence blunders of 60 years ago.

President Obama declared victory Friday after congressional negotiators reached a dawn agreement on a sweeping overhaul of rules overseeing Wall Street.

President Obama accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday and replaced him with Gen. David Petraeus (above right), head of U.S. Central Command. McChrystal was pushed out over his blistering remarks about administration officials quoted in a magazine interview.

President Obama has accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and is replacing him with Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, the president announced Wednesday.

We'll find out what our Film Club critics think of the latest "Toy Story" installment and discuss the Sundance award-winning "Winter's Bone." Also on deck, the Tilda Swinton vehicle "I Am Love," and the movie version of a pulp classic, "The Killer Inside Me."

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain derogatory comments about President Obama and his colleagues, administration officials said Tuesday.