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California saw the worst whooping cough outbreak in more than 60 years in 2010; more than 1,000 people were treated for the disease in San Diego County. KPBS and The Watchdog Institute at SDSU spent months investigating the epidemic and found many of the people getting sick had been previously immunized. Now federal health officials are trying to find out why. The Centers For Disease Control said Monday that while the vaccine is highly effective, immunity may be waning for children ages 8 through 10.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer and the nation's largest private employer, is making a pledge to hire every veteran who wants a job.

In his new book Tip and the Gipper, MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews reflects on his time as a top aide to Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill during Ronald Reagan's presidency. He compares O'Neill and Reagan's unlikely friendship to today's approach of "government by tantrum."

If disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong's confession to doping is as complete as many believe, the admission could increase his legal troubles after Oprah Winfrey's OWN TV airs the interview Thursday night.

College students have 30 days from the end of their student health plan to get on their parents' insurance plan. Under the new federal health law, young adults can stay on their parents' plan until age 26.

"Good gun companies don't need special protection from the law," says Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. The National Rifle Association, though, calls the law that gives companies immunity from most negligence and product liability lawsuits "vitally important" to the gun industry.

A tour bus collided with a car and pickup truck, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens of others Sunday night on a Southern California mountain highway, authorities said.

A joint inquiry by NPR's Planet Money and Investigations teams found that more than $1 billion of unused dollar coins are the wasteful byproducts of another failed congressional effort to replace the dollar bill in everyday commerce.

In the 10 years since sagging power lines in Ohio sparked a blackout across much of the Northeastern United States and Canada, utility engineers say they have implemented measures to prevent another such event in the country's electric grid.

Agencies responsible for vital services, such as national security, air traffic control and food safety inspection, would continue operations. But others — those involving passports, student loans and other routine services — will shut down unless Congress reaches a deal on federal spending.