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During the housing bust, taxpayers were forced to bail out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But thanks to the real estate recovery, Fannie Mae could end up paying tens of billions of dollars back to the Treasury this summer.

Military sexual-assault victims in San Diego are using a silent display to let their voices be heard. But the clothesline of painted T-shirts sends a loud message.

Benjamin Alire Saenz won this year's PEN/Faulkner award for his latest collection of short stories, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. The real-life Kentucky Club is just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, and Saenz joined a reporter there to talk about life in two countries.

On a Saturday night, the bridge that links downtown El Paso, Texas, to Ciudad Juarez in Mexico is hauntingly still. Once, this was a border crossing flush with life; now, after years of brutal drug violence, it's like a graveyard. It's certainly not the border that American author Benjamin Alire Saenz recalls from his high school days.

The latest developments in the investigation into the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon and related news include:

President Obama's time in office has not been defined by terrorism as President George W. Bush's was. Yet incidents like the one in Boston have been a regular, painful through line of his presidency.

Portland and Seattle may take coffee very seriously, but San Diego can boast a newspaper devoted entirely to coffee shops and all the news that's fit to print about them. John Rippo is the publisher of The Espresso, and he's convinced that coffee shops are the places to catch juicy moments of the human experience as they happen.

As the Pentagon and Congress debate how to curb sexual assault in the military, the VA San Diego held its third annual "clothesline project" Monday to encourage assault survivors to break their silence and share their stories.

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has not yet been questioned -- but officials' decision not to read him his Miranda rights is the subject of much debate.

Airs Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV