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A new program in San Diego is teaching high school athletes some skills that could help them save a teammate's life.

Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try the alleged Sept. 11 conspirators in federal courts has elicited sharply divided responses from Capitol Hill, the American public and victims' families. Holder says his decision is driven by evidence, not politics.

UC San Diego officials say thousands of their students will benefit from financial aid reform thanks to President Barack Obama's health care bill. Tucked inside his health care bill was significant financial aid reform.

American Indian tribes have been buying back land where their ancestors lived and putting it into federal trust, making that land exempt from state and local taxes. Tribes across the country have put more than 840,000 acres in trust in just the past decade. It's hitting counties particularly hard.

Robert Mueller began his 10-year term as director in September 2001, days before the terrorist attacks that would change the bureau's direction. As Mueller prepares to step aside, lawmakers and agents have their own ideas about his successor.

California’s state budget cuts are bad news for those who have fallen on hard times.

More than 2 million residents along the Eastern Seaboard have been ordered to move to safer places as Hurricane Irene lumbers toward the Mid-Atlantic region.

The debate in Washington, says the former president, is "all about 'is the government good or bad or taxes always good or bad?' "

The federal government said Monday it cannot explain a reported incident of sudden, high-speed acceleration in a Toyota Prius on a San Diego freeway and acknowledged it may not be able to solve the mystery of what happened to the hybrid.

Energy giant BP said Monday that a key test planned ahead of the "static kill" procedure -- the first of two steps intended to seal the ruptured Gulf of Mexico well for good -- was postponed on Monday. Crews hope to begin the test later Tuesday.