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The Darker Side of Hope (And the Audacity of 'Our Posterity')

A lawsuit filed in Portland, Ore., alleges that the federal government illegally wiretapped lawyers for an Islamist charity based in that state. As Colin Fogarty of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports, it isn't the first legal challenge to the warrantless surveillance program but it's the first to claim specific documented evidence.

The Bratz Walk Their Stilettos onto the Big Screen

El-Ibrahimi is transferred to a North African prison where Abasi Fawal (Yigal Naor) casually employs beatings, water soaked hoods, electrodes, humiliation and solitary confinement in a hole of a cell. Overseeing the interrogation is newbie CIA analyst Douglas Freeman (Jake Gyllenhaal) who bluntly tells Fawal, "This is my first torture." Freeman doesn't take to it very well and Fawal grows impatient with his American observer. In addition, Fawal has to deal with a rebellious daughter who's resisting an arranged marriage and is instead dating a politicized young Islamic man. Meanwhile, back in the states, Isabella hooks up with a college friend (Peter Sarsgaard) who is politically well-connected in Washington, D.C. The government, of course, denies any knowledge of Isabella's husband.

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders will hold a Town Hall Meeting this week to respond to the $20 million Kroll Report. The report has been the topic of water cooler conversations around San Diego since it

San Diego County's first major new power plant project in decades has already generated electricity this year. KPBS Reporter Erik Anderson has details.

Rwanda's public school students may be allowed to study their national history for the first time since a bloody ethnic conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis in 1994 led to the killing of nearly a million Rwandans. But even if officials lift the ban, controversy about what history to teach will remain.

The San Diego city council will decide today whether to ask voters to allow the city to outsource public services. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

In a project called "Together Forward," thousands of U.S. and Iraqi troops go house to house in Baghdad neighborhoods most at risk for violence, searching for illegal weapons and arresting suspected insurgents. The goal is to make the neighborhoods safe enough to start reviving everyday business and trade. And the army is even paying locals to collect trash on the street.

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