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Candidates vying to represent the city’s southeastern neighborhoods on San Diego Unified’s Board of Education debated at Knox Middle School Wednesday night.

Credit cardholders, listen up: On Monday, new federal regulations will take effect, changing the relationship between you and your card issuer. The changes are part of the Credit Card Act of 2009, signed into law last May.

One thing that sets a City Heights campus apart from most others in the country its full-service medical clinic staffed by doctors and nurses that treats students and their siblings before, during and after classes – and during vacations.

Only 22 percent of Americans surveyed by the Pew Research Center say they can trust government in Washington "almost always or most of the time." Director Andrew Kohut tells NPR that the public's hostility flows from a combination of factors — including a bad economy and "epic discontent" with elected officials.

The Federal Reserve decided to keep its benchmark interest rate near zero, reinforcing a commitment that rates should stay "exceptionally low" as the economy emerges from recession. Officials said high unemployment and low inflation were at the crux of the decision.

A new federal report shows the adult smoking rate in the U.S. has been virtually unchanged since 2004. California has fared much better than the national average.

Almost a year after a federally funded task force caused an uproar by recommending that mammograms be optional for women younger than 50, the debate continues. And experts are finding consensus around the idea that a better screening test for breast cancer is needed.

When the real estate market plummeted, banks all over Georgia began failing. In the Atlanta area alone, nearly half of the banks are under federal or state regulatory orders to raise more capital. As a result, many aren't making new loans to small businesses.

Groups of San Diego County parents are uniting behind an education reform strategy that could earn California $700 million of federal stimulus grants.

As the Berlin Wall was coming down, East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, tore up millions of files. More than two decades later, the vast array of secret papers collected by the Stasi is still in huge demand. Archivists are now using groundbreaking computer technology to reconstruct those files.