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A New York state judge has knocked down New York City's landmark new ban on big, sugary drinks, just one day before it was set to take effect.

The California Coastal Commission on Friday rejected a Navy explosives and sonar training program off the Southern California coast that critics said could harm endangered blue whales and other sea life.

For years, federal programs for seniors and those that help kids have been on a collision course.

Friday's deadline for President Obama to issue a sequestration order is neither the beginning nor the end of this year's budget battles in Washington. Here are five key moments to watch over the next seven months, and what's at stake in each:

Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia presents itself as a how-to manual for success in South Asia. The story of a street urchin's corrupt path to prosperity, the novel puts critic Alan Cheuse in mind of that quintessential American story of an unscrupulous striver, The Great Gatsby.

Many programs affecting low-income Americans -- like food stamps, Medicaid and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families -- are exempt from across-the-board spending cuts set to go into effect March 1.

There are a lot of rumors floating around about how sequestration would affect military families. Fortunately, the non-profit National Military Family Association is quashing a lot of those rumors, and hopefully putting some minds at ease.

They've been everywhere this week: dire warnings about threats posed by across-the-board federal spending cuts.

Pentagon officials say military pay and benefits would not be affected by sequestration.

If Congress doesn’t agree on a budget deal by March 1, a series of broad spending cuts -- or sequestration -- will automatically go into effect. The unending stream of doomsday predictions includes deep cuts to housing, food assistance and jobs. Indian health care is one of the targets hardest hit.