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Kazakhstan's wounded pride over a comedian's portrayal of the country as a land of backward, racist yokels may be behind a recent flurry of late-night TV ads promoting the country.

The Obama administration says Chicago winning its bid for the 2016 Olympics would be good for the city's economy. The same argument has been made by many Olympic bidders — but the proof is sketchy.

Many people in North San Diego County said the presidential race wasn't the biggest reason they went to the polls yesterday. It was Prop 8, the measure to ban same sex marriage. KPBS Reporter Kenny Go

Federal correctional officers are gathering outside the Justice Department on Wednesday to protest budget cuts and cutbacks to the federal inmate work program. The officers say it's the only program they have left to keep inmates out of trouble.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's official re-election resolves for now a damaging political stalemate, but it puts new pressure on the Obama administration to make a decision about sending additional U.S. soldiers to Afghanistan.

President Obama headed to Trinidad and Tobago Friday for the fifth Summit of the Americas, but much of the focus was on a nation that wasn't there, as the administration and Cuban officials hinted at warmer relations.

Marines, Border Patrol, Homeland Security and some non-government organizations spent yesterday practicing disaster relief exercises at San Diego's Brown Field.

As the cost of health care skyrockets, how are hospitals making ends meet? We'll look at the competition for patients and how hospitals market their services to get more people in the door.

Alex Chadwick talks to Slate legal affairs writer Emily Bazelon about how the so-called "war on terror" may be influencing national policy on torture. Slate has published an extensive collection of data and documents on the events leading up to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the U.S. government's response to numerous allegations of prisoner abuse.

On Thursday, President Obama makes a major address on the uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa and what those events mean for the U.S. His comments will likely be compared to his speech in Cairo in June 2009, where he went to "seek a new beginning" in the region and the Muslim world.