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Officials said the twister cut a path nearly six miles long through the center of Joplin on Sunday night, ripping into a hospital and damaging thousands of buildings in this city of about 50,000 people.

President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to emphasize their common goals following a White House meeting Friday. But their remarks made it clear that each sees a different path to Israeli-Palestinian peace.

How will U.S. policies in the Middle East change in response to the recent uprisings in the region and the killing of Osama bin Laden? We analyze the president's recent speech, and discuss the affect the U.S. could have on the long-term future of the Middle East and North Africa.

Obama's new peace proposal tries to thread the needle between the Israeli and Palestinian positions.

President Obama is expected to address changes in the Middle East and North Africa on Thursday. Although democracy movements there and the death of Osama bin Laden will allow Obama to strike an optimistic tone, there will still be limits on how much policy change he can promise.

In his speech addressing the Muslim world on Thursday, President Obama will attempt partially to close the gap between U.S. ideals about democracy and its strategic interests in the Middle East and North Africa. It won't be easy.

On Thursday, President Obama makes a major address on the uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa and what those events mean for the U.S. His comments will likely be compared to his speech in Cairo in June 2009, where he went to "seek a new beginning" in the region and the Muslim world.

Egypt's international allies have noticed signs that old agreements may no longer hold. While nothing is certain, Egypt's stance toward Israel and the Palestinians seems likely to shift most dramatically. There are indications "it won't be an easy ride for Israel anymore," an analyst says.

There's a new wrinkle in a story that caused a stir early this year - the commutation of the sentence of Estaban Nunez. He was sentenced to 16 years for the fatal stabbing of a student near SDSU. But right before he left office, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger used his constitutional power and cut Nunez sentence in half.

There’s a new venomous, eight-legged creature in San Diego. The notorious black widow spider has a brown cousin, and it's rapidly invading the county.