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The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking Congress for another $222 million to properly police financial markets next year — an increase of more than 15 percent over its current budget. Without the added funding, could the agency miss the next Bernie Madoff?

Pakistan's parliament unanimously approved a resolution Saturday condemning the U.S. bin Laden mission as a "violation of Pakistan's sovereignty" and calling for a review of the country's "terms of engagement with the United States."

Telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim calls the new Soumaya Museum in Mexico City a gift to his country. But critics say much of the art collection is made up of minor and mediocre pieces by big-name artists. Still, the museum is extremely popular with Mexicans.

Almost as important as finding and killing the al-Qaida leader was what came afterward: telling the story of the operation in such a way that U.S. interests were advanced. Strategic communication efforts have not always been handled all that skillfully, and managing this story was no exception.

Teachers and Taxpayer Group Face Off

The City Council will hold a special meeting today to consider formal approval of 15-year agreements on health care for retirees with five of the city's six employee unions.

Poppy is a key crop in the deadly Sangin District, and in a way, flowers fuel the fight: The Taliban earns hundreds of millions of dollars from the drug trade, which supplies 90 percent of the world's raw opium used for heroin. And during harvest season, fighting practically comes to a halt.

This week the California State University system unveiled its worst-case-scenario budget, and any family planning to send a kid to college should take note..

Twenty eight thousand veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are enrolled with the VA Medical Center in La Jolla. So a ruling from the state's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals this week gives us pause here in San Diego.

An unprecedented rash of criminal misconduct involving San Diego city police officers prompted San Diego Police Chief Bill Lansdowne to issue a public apology this week.