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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to intensify checks on professional immigrants to Britain. At least four of the suspects being detained in connection with the attempted car bombings in London and Glasgow are doctors, and the others are related to the medical profession.

You'd think if you were a relative of someone as famous as Harry Houdini, you'd know it. But George Hardeen, 59, didn't find out he was Houdini's great-nephew until he was a teenager. His grandfather was Houdini's brother. But the family DNA wasn't something anyone really talked about.

It's an irresistible story. A building painter in Fresno, Calif., announces negatives he bought for $45 at a yard sale were taken by Ansel Adams. But the renowned photographer's family thinks the story is too good to be true, and the heat's on to prove the negatives' authenticity.

Airs Monday, June 10, 2019 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, June 19 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2

In the Senate, Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada takes over as Majority Leader, proclaiming it to be a new day in Washington. Standing with new Minority Leader Mitch McConnell at his side, Reid said that the Senate would work on a bipartisan basis. Robert Siegel reports from Capitol Hill as the Democrats take control of both houses of Congress.

James Cameron's Long-Awaited 3D Film

I've had woodpecker fever all week. I've been putting knuckles through Ikea tabletops for days. If you mention Obama, I'm looking to knock some wood. All signs look good, the polls are positive and - knock, knock, knock - Yes We Can!

From the Miramar Air Show to Oktoberfest in La Mesa and everything in between, we'll talk about events happening throughout San Diego county with our culture scouts.

A bombing on a bus in Baghdad kills 16 and wounds 20, one day after 35 police recruits were killed when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a police recruiting station in Baghdad. In the face of such instability, Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is promising to shake up his Cabinet.

In a speech in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, Republican presidential candidate John McCain says he believes the Iraq war can be won by 2013 and that he envisions Osama bin Laden will be dead or captured during his first term as president.