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The San Diego City Council voted 7-1 today to adopt a resolution calling for the repeal of Arizona's recently passed law targeting illegal immigrants.

Even with many looking for work, some employers say they just can't find the right people to hire. The problem hit the trucking industry, prompting one company to offer driving schools with the promise of a job upon completion. But other open jobs require more training, making them harder to fill.

The plot of land known for a decade as "the pile," "the pit" and "ground zero" is opening to the public for the first time since that terrible morning in 2001.

Every year, more than 3,000 people around the U.S. cut off their fingers or thumbs in table saw accidents, according to federal data. One entrepreneur created a device called SawStop that prevents such injuries. But mainstream tool companies have been slow to adopt the technology.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced Monday that since Congress has failed to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind law, he will begin granting waivers that exempt states from some of its mandates. But House Republicans complained that the secretary should have waited for Congress.

As police dismantle more of the remaining Occupy camps, protesters in Washington staged sit-ins at congressional offices. Now they're targeting corporations and lobbying firms on K Street.

The court said Tuesday it will hear a case involving Chinese Muslims, or Uighurs, to consider the status of Guantanamo prisoners who remain in custody even after the Pentagon decides they're not a threat to the United States.

Before GOP presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman served as governor of Utah, a corporate executive, and U.S. ambassador to China, he had another youthful calling: Huntsman was a rock 'n' roll musician in a band called Wizard.

A federal court has issued a ruling that families claiming their child's autism is caused by vaccines will not be eligible for a previously established program to compensate people injured by vaccines. The ruling affects thousands of children whose parents have filed claims with the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

For the first time in almost a half-century, someone other than Joe Paterno is calling the shots at Penn State.