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So why did President Obama choose Chuck Hagel to be his new defense secretary?

Airs Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

President Barack Obama announced Monday he will nominate former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, calling him "the leader our troops deserve." He also said he had chosen White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.

Unauthorized immigrants who use fraudulent documents and social security numbers to get hired are routinely charged with forgery and identity theft felonies in Arizona’s Maricopa County. But now some attorneys are using new legal arguments to challenge those cases.

Construction on the Carlsbad desalination plant will generate jobs locally, but it also continues to generate lawsuits.

President Obama will announce today that he plans to nominate John Brennan to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency, an administration official with knowledge of the decision tells NPR's Tom Bowman.

President Barack Obama will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary, a senior administration official said Sunday, choosing a former Senate colleague and a decorated Vietnam veteran and signaling he's ready for a contentious confirmation fight likely dominated by questions about Hagel's stands on Israel and Iran.

The last thing Washington policymakers need is another obstacle to reaching agreements in the next two months on mandatory spending cuts and raising the nation's debt limit.

Everyone needs a sense of place in life. Now imagine living without an identity. No country, no name, not even fingerprints. Officially you don't exist.

Utah's unorthodox health insurance exchange got conditional approval from the Obama administration. Six other states with more conventional approaches to running health insurance marketplaces also received provisional OKs.