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Local schools have been hit hard by the state budget crisis, and the nation's economic downturn. We discuss how the San Diego Unified School District cut its budget by $100 million, and why four other local districts are worried they might not be able to pay their bills for the next two years.

A year ago, the Pakistani army mounted an offensive to dislodge Taliban militants who had overtaken Swat Valley. The fighting forced more than 2 million people from their homes. A year later, the people of the region are trying to rebuild their lives.

The Senate GOP leader put his chips on Trey Grayson, who was defeated handily in Kentucky's GOP Senate primary by Tea Party candidate Rand Paul. Betting on the wrong horse is nothing new in the home of the Kentucky Derby. But when it happens to arguably the most prominent Republican in the nation, heads turn.

Tuesday's big primaries are over, but in just a few weeks, what promises to be a long summer of combative and telling Senate primary contests begins in earnest. Here's what to look for in California, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona.

The senator's failure to make it into Utah's GOP primary -- let alone win his party's nomination -- makes him the first congressional incumbent to be ousted this year, and demonstrates the difficult challenges candidates are facing from the right in 2010. Opponents said he wasn't conservative enough for ultraconservative Utah.

Sen. Bob Bennett, one of the chamber's most conservative members, is in trouble. Utah's Republican delegates are ready to topple the 18-year incumbent at Saturday's state party convention. If he doesn't get 40 percent of the vote, he won't qualify for the June primary.

California’s Fair Political Practices Commission is investigating San Diego County Supervisor Pam Slater Price for her failure to report free tickets she received from the Opera. Slater Price has earmarked $3 million to the Opera from her discretionary funds of public money.

Nearly 400,000 jobless Americans are going to see their long-term unemployment benefits cut off after Congress failed to pass a short-term extension before taking a two-week break.

Nearly 400,000 jobless Americans are going to see their long-term unemployment benefits cut off after Congress failed to pass a short-term extension before its two-week spring break. The House voted to extend the jobless benefits and went home; but there was a filibuster in the Senate.

As much as the substance of the health care bill, it was the sweetheart deals and closed-door meetings surrounding it that helped disillusion the public. Now President Obama — who campaigned on the promise of transparency — must remind the public why it voted for him in the first place.