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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the government's $700 billion bailout program will end "as soon as we can," and that part of it will be used to lower the record deficit. He urged Congress to move quickly in overhauling the nation's financial rules, which he says is key to a healthy economy.

It didn't take long for commentators -- on the left and the right -- to start tearing apart House Republicans' new "Pledge To America," the campaign-season agenda they released Thursday. Its purpose is to unify the party -- but it's already revealing fissures among House Republicans.

More problems have come to light at a federal immigration detention center in San Diego. In addition to alleged overcrowding and inadequate medical care, an attorney has filed a complaint with federal

As President Barack Obama prepares to enter a second term, he faces a host of foreign policy issues. Syria presents an immediate crisis, China poses a strategic challenge and tensions with Iran continue to escalate.

Federal, state and local authorities gathered in Tijuana Tuesday to show a united front in the battle against drug traffickers in Baja California. This comes on the heels of a bloody shootout last wee

The United States Supreme Court recently made a ruling that could have a major impact on the nation's campaign finance laws. These Days legal analyst Dan Eaton join us today to explain the court's decision, and how it could impact elections in the future.

The Federal Reserve, citing a marked slowing in the economy and consumer spending, cut interest rates for the second time in three weeks, in hopes of preventing a prolonged recession. The half-point cut brings the fed funds rate to 1.0 percent, the lowest since 2004.

Administration officials say they want the federal government to work with private investors to buy up the toxic assets — the bad mortgages and securities that produced the credit crisis. But Congress' move to tax bonuses at bailed-out companies may stymie cooperation from private investors.

In his new memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Garry Wills explains his career as a lifelong observer. In Outside Looking In, he talks books, politics and family — and explains how his father's philosophy about the word "cannot" is one reason he became a conservative.

San Diego street gangs historically lay claim to their own neighborhoods. But investigators say their allegiance now extends beyond their own turf and across the U.S.-Mexico border.