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Highway safety officials are considering whether to recommend banning all cell phone use by drivers. Such a ban would include hand-held and hands-free devices. Eight states and the District of Columbia now ban hand-held cell phone use; 30 states ban texting while driving.

The GOP wave swept dozens of Democrats out of Congress -- and just a couple of Republicans. The most prominent was South Carolina's Bob Inglis, who tells host Guy Raz why he thinks the conservative movement has been hijacked and jokes about what it feels like to be "chairman of the local losers club."

After a grueling tour in Afghanistan, the men of the Second Platoon of Charlie Company were ready to go home. But the reinforcements sent to replace them weren't prepared for the brutal combat they encountered. Brian Mockenhaupt reports on the joint mission with the untried artillery unit.

NASA has released the first collection of views from the recently refurbished Hubble Space Telescope. Thanks to new imagers installed in May 2009 during a visit from the space shuttle Atlantis, the 19-year-old orbiting observatory is more powerful than ever.

Discovery, NASA's oldest surviving space shuttle and the beloved workhorse of the fleet, rocketed up into the sky on Thursday afternoon for a bittersweet final voyage. After this mission, the shuttle, which has carried 194 astronauts since 1984, will become a museum exhibit.

In the eastern Libyan city of Bayda, a new government is being formed. As forces loyal to Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi reportedly held on to control of the capital city of Tripoli, the eastern part of the country is in the hands of the rebels, who are now trying to organize themselves.

One of the benefits for San Diego, in the federal stimulus package, is a bump in spending for the National Institutes of Health. KPBS reporter Tom Fudge explains.

A study of large urban areas in the U.S. shows immigrants make up 28 percent of the San Diego workforce.

For many students at Wellspring Academy in N.C., two months at this weight-loss boarding school have transformed them. Those who trailed behind their parents to check in back in August now own the campus. Kids who had watched from the sidelines while others exercised have turned into exercisers.

Companies that offer Web-based e-mail or social networking can't always cooperate with court-ordered surveillance. That's because it's not always possible to create built-in eavesdropping systems, and those back doors can leave computers vulnerable to hacking and non-government spying.