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It's been four years since San Diegans defeated Proposition A and said "no" to moving their commercial airport from Lindbergh Field to Miramar Air Station. But talk of expanding airport capacity hasn't died out.

When NASA wrapped up its spaceship programs Mercury and Apollo, it had new vehicles ready to replace them. But the agency has no such plan now that the space shuttles are retiring. Some people say it's a sign the organization has lost its way, but the agency's leaders say NASA has a robust future.

U.S. and Russian flights involved in a 14-person spy swap landed briefly in Vienna, apparently exchanged agents, then took off again in the largest such diplomatic dance since the Cold War.

Japan's efforts to cool overheating reactor units at its crippled nuclear power plant demand global cooperation.

Analysts estimate there are as few as 1,000 people in the U.S. with the skills needed to defend complex computer systems against attack -- and 20 to 30 times that many are needed. And so the race begins to recruit American cyberwarriors.

NASA's administrator is defending the president's proposed budget for NASA, which cancels the space agency's planned space shuttle successor and instead relies on private companies to taxi crews into orbit. Charles Bolden said executives from seven companies working on commercial crew vehicles are "the faces of a new frontier."

Scotland has released on compassionate grounds the only man ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland. British media reported that a plane was already en route to pick up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who has terminal cancer, and return him to Libya.

Many in Congress are furious about the Air Force awarding a $35 billion air tanker contract to a consortium of European and American companies, and some are now threatening to fight its funding. But senators from Alabama, where the consortium would bring thousands of jobs, are celebrating.

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.

The five-piece New Orleans funk bank Galactic has a new CD called "Ya-ka-may" that captures the music of New Orleans. They collaborated with legendary Crescent City musicians like Irma Thomas and Allen Toussaint, as well as new ones, like Bounce artists Big Freedia and Cheeky Black. We'll talk about the new album with members of the band Galactic.