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Millions of international students get an education in the U.S. and then take their knowledge and skills home. The Obama administration says it wants to keep them here.

UC San Diego is now home to the world's largest surgery simulation lab. It's part of a new $70 million state-of-the-art medical training center on the La Jolla campus.

How should the county's health services and public safety officials prepare for the impact of climate change? We speak to Paula Murray, with the County of San Diego's Division of Public Health Services, about how increases in wildfires, flooding and heatwaves could impact public health in the future.

A Different Kind of Illegal Alien

The California state legislature passed more than 700 new laws last year - most of them take affect January 1st. The laws range from banning people from openly carrying hand guns - to preventing minors from using tanning beds. There are also a number of new laws protecting the rights of gays and lesbians.

Mitt Romney has clinched the Republican nomination for president with a win in the Texas primary.

Scientists can now bargain shop for expensive lab equipment in San Diego.

Today's touch-screen devices seem like a thing of the future, but the technology that runs your iPad or Android can actually be traced back to 1948 and something called the Electronic Sackbut.

The move toward local and organic food is spreading to an area not commonly associated with freshness, or even flavor: hospital kitchens. Advocates say a switch to higher-quality and smaller servings of meat will help patients. But the idea has its critics.

The Islamist group Hamas is known to use tunnels on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to smuggle weapons and other goods into the territory. Christian Science Monitor reporter Dan Murphy, who has spent time with workers who dig the tunnels, says the stretch of the border between Gaza and Egypt is dotted with these "rudimentary" tunnels.