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As shipments of the popular spicy Asian condiment Sriracha remain on hold following a partial shutdown of its factory in California, a state representative from Texas is trying to lure the maker of the sauce away from the West Cost and into the Lone Star State.

Three years after taking a bullet to the head, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords marks the anniversary by skydiving and outlines her resolutions for stronger gun laws.

According to Russian journalist Masha Gessen, the 2012 arrests were the start of a campaign by Vladimir Putin and his supporters against government critics. Gessen, who is also an LGBT rights advocate, recently moved to New York with her partner and their children in response to the anti-gay laws Russia passed in June.

Gov. Jerry Brown will begin the day in Sacramento and speak at San Diego City Hall around 12:30 p.m.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors is scheduled Wednesday to consider whether to allow community and special event signs and banners along county right-of-ways in unincorporated areas.

The city of Solana Beach votes Wednesday night on whether to formally oppose building new fossil fuel power plants in San Diego to make up for the loss of San Onofre’s nuclear power.

Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson declared an "unconditional war on poverty in America." It was something he knew well, says historian Robert Caro. As a boy, Johnson and his family often had little food and were "literally afraid every month that the bank might take away" their house.

President Lyndon Johnson stood in the Capitol on Jan. 8, 1964, and, in his first State of the Union address, committed the nation to a war on poverty.

Lindsey Vonn's decision to sit out next month's Olympic Games due to a knee injury is surely a personal and professional disappointment for the Alpine skiing star. But Olympic athletes with Vonn's star power also mean big advertising dollars -- and not competing in Sochi may create winners and losers among the skier's sponsors.

Saturday marks an important milestone in public health - the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health.