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Gov. Jennifer Granholm tells NPR that she believes President Obama is standing behind the auto industry. She says the last thing she wants to see happen is controlled bankruptcies for General Motors and Chrysler. And she says 2010 will be a great year for the Big Three automakers.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner toured the border crossing at San Ysidro today, coinciding with the release of a new television commercial focusing on his immigration plan and support for Arizona's recently adopted anti-illegal immigration law.

San Diego's five school trustees will vote on a resolution that warns school kids and their families not to travel to or spend time in Arizona. That same policy has been approved by other governmental agencies in the past weeks. However, San Diego Unified could be the first large, urban school district in California to take a stand.

Out-of-work adults and recent grads who can't find work in their fields are increasingly taking entry-level jobs traditionally held by teens. The jobless rate for 16- to 19-year-olds this summer is the highest on record for any summer since 1948.

Najibullah Zazi may be the only suspect behind bars in the alleged terrorism case, but prosecutors are convinced that he was not working alone. By holding off on making more arrests, the FBI can gather intelligence in an effort to catch all the plotters.

At an upbeat news conference, the president offered bills passed by a lame-duck session of Congress as evidence of "capacity ... to make progress together." But a very different set of players awaits him on Capitol Hill in 2011.

All U.S. troops are set to withdraw from Iraq by the end of this 2011, and many believe Iran will move to assert more influence over Baghdad. But Ray Takeyh, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, argues that Iran has already lost Iraq.

President Obama took one small step backward Thursday afternoon, announcing subtle changes to his new space strategy while also defending his approach during a speech at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

President Obama's proposal supports NASA's development of a deep-space rocket and designates the Orion crew capsule, part of the Constellation program that had been canceled, as a sort of emergency lifeboat for the space station.

Unemployment figures for July, which are due out on Friday, are unlikely to show a lot of strength. Analysts expect business hiring won't outpace declines in jobs, which could mean the unemployment rate rises slightly. Economists and Obama administration officials say the jobs recovery will occur, but gradually.