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Our Film Club critics will weigh in on the best and worst movies of 2010 and explain the big stories from the year in film.

The killing of a Pakistani politician Tuesday has deepened the country's already fragile political and religious tensions. Salman Taseer, the liberal governor of the powerful Punjab province, was a critic of the national law that carries a death sentence for those found to have insulted Islam. Deep anger about that opposition is apparently what motivated his suspected killer — one of his own bodyguards. Steve Inskeep talks with Rashid Rahman, editor of Pakistan's Daily Times — a newspaper that Taseer owned and published — about the implications of the assassination. Rahman says it has sounded an alarm for "the liberal and democratic and progressive forces" in Pakistani society to unite and show as much effectiveness as the "right-wing, extremist and jihadi parties."

Qualcomm announced today that it finalized a deal to buy Atheros Communications for about $3.1 billion, or $45 per share.

In his final hours in the governor's office, Arnold Schwarzenegger used his power to reduce the 16-year prison sentence of Esteban Nunez to seven years. Nunez, son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for his involvement in the stabbing death of a local college student in 2008. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis talks to us about why she is opposed to the decision to commute Nunez's sentence. We also speak to Dumanis about her goals for her third term in office, which began this week.

On the eve of his departure from office, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger applauded one of his signature projects: The Sunrise Powerlink. The massive energy transmission line has garnered many opponents, among them Native American tribes.

Democrat Nancy Pelosi said she had no regrets on her last day as House speaker Tuesday, a reign that lasted four years and is ending after the November elections.

What are the education stories to watch in 2011? What impact might the new state schools superintendent and new governor have on California schools? Could change be coming to the San Diego Unified School board? We speak to Education Reporter Ana Tintocalis and Scott Himelstein, president of San Diegans 4 Great Schools.

What will David Alvarez bring to the San Diego City Council? We speak to Councilmember Alvarez about his goals for District 8, and we discuss how he thinks the council should go about cutting the city's $73 million budget deficit.

As the Republicans prepare to take over the House this week, they're welcoming almost 90 newcomers into their ranks. Here are eight who are poised to stand out, including South Dakota's Kristi Noem (pictured), freshman class liaison to the GOP House leadership.

Most mainstream American news organizations promise to report "without fear or favor," but many Americans still see the media as biased. So what might it look like if American newspapers openly embraced an ideology, like they do in the U.K.? NPR's David Folkenflik goes to London to find out.