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Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court will likely create a critical opening at the top of the Justice Department, even as other key legal posts requiring Senate confirmation remain unfilled.

These sunny August days in Iowa prove to be Michele Bachmann's best as a GOP presidential candidate. On the eve of the state's Republican straw poll in Ames, where she is expected to either win or place, the Minnesota congresswoman hop-scotched central Iowa.

As the Senate lurches towards a final vote on its health overhaul bill, some people are daring to look ahead to the last step in the painstaking process: marrying the Senate and House bills. Like everything else about this bill, putting the two measures together won't be easy.

Fannie Mae is the nation's largest owner of foreclosed homes. That means it spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year on maintenance and upkeep, including mowing tens of thousands of lawns each month.

The debate in Washington over how much the health care overhaul bills will cost has largely centered on the bottom line for the federal government. But polls repeatedly show Americans are much more concerned about how a reshaped health care system will affect their own family's financial situation.

Imperial Capital Bank's nine branches will reopen as branches of City National Bank today following the California Department of Financial Institutions' decision to close La Jolla-based Imperial because of inadequate capital reserves.

ANALYSIS: Most of the news media simply didn't know what to do when word came that the Toxic Asset Relief Program wasn't going to cost $700 billion. That didn't fit with the accepted Election Year narrative.

Starting Tuesday, federal officials will invite illegal immigrants in San Diego and four other cities to turn themselves in. Critics say federal officials are delusional if they think anyone is going

United States and Mexican authorities have discovered a drug-smuggling tunnel and 20 tons of marijuana at a warehouse in Otay Mesa, California.

Sweetwater High School in National City is one of only two high school campuses in California that got-off a federal list of failing schools. The principal hopes federal education officials take notic