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Valdete Idrizi, a 34-year-old ethnic Albanian who survived the ethnic violence in Kosovo in the 1990s, has reached out to her Serb neighbors. She has faced death threats from Kosovar Albanian militants. But she also received an International Woman of Courage award from the U.S. Secretary of State.

Congressman Darrell Issa is asking the Department of Homeland Security to review its procedures following a recent security breach at Lindbergh Field. How did a man posing as a U.S. marshal and carrying a handgun get past the security check-point at the airport?

A lack of minority doctors and nurses is one of many challenges facing certain ethnic groups in California. That’s the finding of a new report out of UC Berkeley.

For many years, researchers assumed women who became lesbians in their 30s or later were simply repressed by society until they felt comfortable coming out. But one researcher suggests that's not entirely the case. Lisa Diamond says these women might have always had the capacity to become attracted to women, but might never have had a reason to act on it.

Proposition 8 -- California's ban on same-sex marriage was overturned Wednesday in federal court. Chief District Judge Vaughn Walker wrote in his ruling "Proposition 8 both unconstitutionally burdens the exercise of the fundamental right to marry and creates an irrational classification on the basis of sexual orientation." Proponents of prop 8 have appealed the ruling to the U.S. 9th circuit court of appeals.

Do you think the problems that face California are bigger Democrat versus Republican or left against right? "California Crackup" is a new book that offers some solutions. We talk to the book's co-author, Mark Paul, and UCSD Political Scientist, Thad Kousser, about what they think could fix our broken government.

The promise of the Obama presidency was that racial divisions would be seen differently with a black man in the White House. But this week's fiasco over the firing of Shirley Sherrod at the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows how the divide endures.

Bolstering 14,000 U.S. troops fighting insurgents in Mosul are 9,000 Iraqi forces, many of them Kurds. But the Sunni Arab community is leery of the Kurds, who hold a majority of seats in the provincial council.

Who are the refugees resettling in San Diego County? We'll hear the story of a Palestinian family who fled a refugee camp in Iraq to start a new life in El Cajon.

Learn about efforts to modernize the Federal Refugee Protection Act, which turns 30 this year.