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Barrera Delivers His First State Of The District Address

The Supreme Court's landmark campaign finance decision opens the way for almost unlimited campaign spending by unions and corporations. President Obama condemned the ruling, but there may be little he and campaign finance watchdogs can do to counteract it.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has upped its offer to buy out ailing Bear Stearns Co., offering $10 a share instead of its original offer of $2 for the investment bank collapsed under the weight of bad subprime mortgages. The original Bear takeover agreement was forged with the support of federal regulators.

Health officials are bracing for a new wave of skepticism about the safety of childhood vaccines. The concern comes after the federal government admitted a connection between a young girl's autism and

The Justice Department confirmed a report that there wasn't enough evidence to bring an indictment. The tapes depicted interrogation of terrorism detainees during the Bush administration. They were destroyed five years ago amid an uproar over photos of detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

New laws and Medicare rules call on hospitals to report infections. Some, like Pacific Hospital in California, have already managed to bring rates way down. Pacific's efforts have caught the attention of competitors and potential customers. And they've become a source of pride for its employees.

NPR News Investigation: Intelligence officials suspect that American-born radical imam Anwar al-Awlaki may have lured Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to Yemen for training by al-Qaida operatives before the young Nigerian tried to bring down a Detroit-bound trans-Atlantic airliner on Dec. 25. A look at the cleric and his reach.

Colleges that are run for profit are rallying against a proposal to limit how much money their students can borrow. With the Senate holding a hearing on the for-profit colleges, several schools bused in students for a rally at the Capitol.

Plenty of hurdles remain in the Senate before there is a final vote on the bill to overhaul the health care system. The latest obstacle to be overcome was a nearly weeklong delay caused by a pair of amendments that would have allowed individuals, pharmacies and drug wholesalers to import lower-cost prescription drugs from other industrial countries.

Party chairwoman Carol Fowler said she asked Alvin Greene to withdraw from the campaign against U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint after learning he was arrested in November for allegedly showing obscene Internet photos to a University of South Carolina student. The felony charge carries up to five years in prison.