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In the months after Rep. Brian Bilbray sponsored a Congressional cigar club—where politicians and their staffers have puffed and partied with lobbyists around D.C.—he introduced or lent his name to legislation that would benefit some of those lobbyists’ clients.

President-elect Barack Obama says shuttering the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be a priority for administration, but it will be a complicated process. John Bellinger, legal adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, offers his insight.

For months, lawmakers have known that the nation is on the way to hitting the debt ceiling, and news that credit rating agency Standard and Poor's has lowered its outlook on U.S. borrowing only puts more pressure on the coming debate. Now, lawmakers are weighing their options in the face of another high-stakes vote.

A new exhibit on the walls of the Interior Department's headquarters displays a series of photographs taken by Ansel Adams — murals commissioned in the last century, but never before displayed.

The money is big and the stakes are high. The question is: How should San Diego spend $110 billion over the next 40 years to make it easier to get from here to there?

The top income tax bracket in America is 35 percent, but the rich often make their money in ways the IRS doesn't classify as taxable income. That makes it hard to gauge the true income gap in America — and hard to tell exactly how much tax the rich are really paying.

For the past four months, KPBS and the Watchdog Institute have tracked the whooping cough epidemic across California and other affected states.

Mexico is in the midst of its most violent confrontation with drug traffickers, with an estimated 28,000 people killed since President Felipe Calderon declared war on drug cartels soon after he took office in late 2006.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina was expected to be released from a hospital today after successful treatment of an infection stemming from reconstructive surgery she underwent after a bout with breast cancer.

Some signs suggest that the U.S. economy finally may be hitting bottom. But economists warn the job losses may not be over yet — and even when business picks up again, firms may tap their own furloughed or underemployed workers first.