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The San Diego Unified School District is facing a projected $141 million budget deficit next year. Superintendent Bill Kowba and school board president, Richard Barrera, join us to discuss the potential cuts the district is considering.

The military is spending more than $42 million on a program its leaders refuse to carry out.

Founder of Sushi Asked to Step Down as Interim Director

Apple Inc.'s newest iPhone was selling briskly Thursday as thousands lined up outside stores around the world to snag one amid concerns of supply shortages. Some stores including ones in Tokyo, Miami, San Francisco and Charlotte, N.C., sold out within hours as the iPhone 4 went on sale in the U.S., France, Germany, the U.K. and Japan.

A Senate committee has begun hearings on a massive climate bill that would remake the energy economy. Supporters say it will protect the environment and create a new green industry. Opponents say it will kill the fossil fuel industry — costing millions of jobs.

Money and President Obama's support may not be enough to surmount the now former White House chief of staff's lack of relationships with black and Latino voters in the Windy City.

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

American and Russian planes involved in the exchange landed briefly in Vienna, swapped agents, then took off again in the largest such diplomatic dance since the Cold War. Both countries won admissions of crimes from those involved: guilty pleas in the U.S. and signed confessions in Russia.

U.S. Marines and their Afghan counterparts are tightening their hold on the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, in southern Afghanistan. But hundreds of deadly homemade bombs, or IEDs, remain behind.

The investment bank Bear Stearns is in trouble. The Federal Reserve and rival bank JPMorgan Chase agreed to provide emergency funding for the troubled company on Friday. Marketplace's Janet Babin explains what the bailout means.