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The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults.

Loosely organized protests that began on Wall Street last month have spread to other U.S. cities. President Obama says he understands the frustration conveyed by the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, and he's trying to channel that anger into support for his financial policies.

A San Diego track star is one of several thousand undocumented immigrants to benefit from a new government policy that let’s them avoid deportation. But the reprieve leaves them in a kind of legal no man's land.

True Grit author Charles Portis is the cult writer for people who hate cult writers. He hasn't published a book since 1991, and reviewer John Powers says the short pieces collected in Escape Velocity have been treasured for decades, passed around like samizdat by Portis fans.

San Diego gas prices are on a steady downward path since peaking about six weeks ago. The average price is now close to $3.90 a gallon and drivers welcome the relief as the summer driving season hits full speed.

When the housing bubble burst, banks hired thousands of inexperienced people to deal with the crisis -- and a lot of mistakes were made. Now millions of homeowners wait as some call on the government to issue a moratorium on foreclosures.

If Greece, Spain, Italy or other European governments were to suddenly default on their debts, European banks could find themselves holding worthless assets and becoming insolvent. That could lead to a global financial meltdown worse than the one in 2008.

Economists and the markets were skeptical about the Fed's latest plan to cut already-low interest rates in an effort to boost the economy. But, as one business professor says, "there's no magic elixir" for the situation the U.S. is in.

Federal prosecutors have charged five men with responsibility for some of the biggest computer hacks in the past few years. The FBI says the hackers penetrated the computer systems of businesses like Fox Broadcasting and Sony Pictures, stole confidential information and splashed it all over the Internet.

After a record number of new citizens in 2008, how many immigrants are naturalizing this year?