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People concerned about human trafficking in California are trying to bring awareness to the issue. California Against Slavery organized an event at the state Capitol Monday to call for stiffer state laws against the crimes.

Deep cracks opened up in Moammar Gadhafi's regime with diplomats abroad and the justice minister at home resigning, air force pilots defecting and a fire raging at the main government hall after clashes in the capital.

More than 600,000 people have fled the fighting in Libya, international agencies say — triggering one of the largest refugee crises seen in the past 20 years. Dealing with the displaced has stoked an already-hot political debate about immigration in Europe.

The number of cases of whooping cough in San Diego County is on the rise, and state health officials today declared the disease a epidemic stage in California.

The Imperial Valley's skyrocketing unemployment and foreclosure rates are putting a squeeze on the region's social services. KPBS Reporter Ana Tintocalis has more.

Confidential informants — people who pose as criminals so they can provide information to the police or some government agency — have helped crack some major U.S. cases. They are part of the shadowy side of law enforcement and operate in a secret and largely unregulated world.

In 2004, Khalid el-Masri, a German citizen, was kidnapped by the CIA and kept in an Afghan prison for four months. Legalities aside, it was a blundered rendition — the CIA got the wrong guy — but it hasn't made el-Masri's life any easier in the years since he returned home and has been trying to seek justice.

An update on recovery efforts following Sunday's major earthquake in Baja California.

The Libyan leader has had a checkered relationship with the African continent over the years. His pursuit of a United States of Africa — with himself as the continent's self-styled King of Kings — is one of the mercurial colonel's more recent projects.

Several European nations have announced humanitarian operations to assist the growing number of people fleeing violence and chaos in Libya. But there is also alarm in many European capitals over calls from some in the U.S. and Britain for military action.