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If Congress and the Obama administration can't agree on a budget deal by Friday, the federal government will be forced to cut $85 billion from just about every federally funded program. Every state could lose federal aid, and a myriad of government programs could shut down or curtail services -- and that includes the nation's public schools.

California has set aside one-time funding to implement the new Common Core standards, but what districts do with that money is largely up to them.

Pretrial hearings in the death penalty trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of planning the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks lasted a little more than hour Monday before the judge recessed the session until Tuesday.

Pretrial hearings resume Monday in the death penalty trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of planning the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The men have been in jail, awaiting trial, for over a decade. The hearings in their case started back in May and they have hardly moved forward since then.

An American candy heiress butts heads with a snooty French chocolatier in Laura Florand's romantic new novel The Chocolate Thief. They fight, he throws her out of his candy store — of course they're going to fall in love. Read on for a sweet treat to while away a summer afternoon.

Wikileaks Condemned by Many, But Has Its Supporters, Too

Juan was born the third son of ten children on March 7, 1961, in National City, California. Tomas and Celina Vargas, Juan's parents, moved to the United States from Mexico in the late 1940s as part of the Bracero Program and raised their children on a chicken ranch.

It's not just Louis C.K. and Stephen Colbert who are confused about the Common Core. Get the facts here.

Americans paused again Tuesday to mark the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks with familiar ceremony, but also a sense that it's time to move forward after a decade of remembrance.