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The bill, which calls for a balanced budget constitutional amendment, now heads to the Democratic-controlled Senate, where it is unlikely to pass.

Builders project that $300 million in local, state and federal revenue would also be lost during the project's life.

If you take away the politics and talking points from the debt-ceiling showdown, you end up with something that looks a lot like a Texas Hold 'em poker game. Both sides are posturing, taking risks, making big bets and, of course, bluffing.

Media professionals in Damascus who used to work on campaigns for breakfast cereals and home mortgages are now turning their talents toward a campaign they say promotes a peaceful, democratic way out of the ongoing clashes in Syria. The polarization in the country, they say, is profound.

Aired in 2011. Natalie Dessay triumphed as the fragile heroine of Donizetti’s masterpiece on opening night of the Met’s 2007-08 season in Mary Zimmerman’s hit production. Now she returns to the role of the innocent young woman driven to madness, opposite Joseph Calleja, who sings her lover Edgardo in "Lucia di Lammermoor."

The San Diego City Council unanimously approved a plan to pay about $70 million to keep its redevelopment agencies. The vote came as opponents filed a lawsuit to overturn the new state law requiring the payment.

Conservatives coined a catchy name for the legislation House Republicans have scheduled for a Tuesday vote — Cap, Cut and Balance.Democrats in the White House have what they think is just as creative a name for the bill — Duck, Dodge and Dismantle. And those same Obama officials vow that President Obama will veto the legislation if it were to reach his desk.

Social studies textbooks in California public schools will soon be adding another piece of history - contributions of gays and lesbians.

A new book discovers the birth of rock 'n' roll in the black juke joints of the south, where artists like James Brown got their start. We'll talk with author Preston Lauterbach.

Criminal organizations are finding ways to get large quantities of pseudoephedrine from pharmacies to funnel to large meth labs in California. This is the second story in a two-part series on meth in the Southwest.