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In Iraq, the pullout of U.S. troops is picking up pace. By Sept. 1, the number of U.S. forces in Iraq will be pared to about 50,000 troops, part of a massive drawdown to continue in 2011 under an agreement negotiated with Baghdad.

Responding to criticism over a staged news conference about the Southern California wildfires, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said today changes will be made in the way the agency

Civil liberties groups cannot sue the federal government to stop President Bush's warrantless domestic spying program, according to a ruling from a divided panel of the federal appeals court in Cincinnati.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Senate's merged health care bill will include a government-sponsored program in the insurance market. But it remains unclear whether Reid has locked in the 60 votes needed to guarantee passage of a final bill with a public option.

We speak to representatives on both sides of the Proposition D debate about how the city will move forward now that the proposal has failed. Hear from the new city councilman for the 8th District, David Alvarez. And, we talk to County Supervisors, Bill Horn and Ron Roberts, who were re-elected last night. Also, learn more about the propositions that will change California government.

The eldest brother in the notorious Arellano Felix family that runs Tijuana's Arellano Felix Drug Cartel was sentenced in federal court in San Diego Monday. Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix could be el

Members of Congress and President Bush are heading for another showdown over health care. This time it involves a series of regulations the administration says will save the Medicaid program billions of dollars. But the nation's governors and health care providers say it will unfairly pass costs to states and hurt patients.

The national scandal involving ACORN, the community organizing group accused of giving advice to potential criminals, continued to heat up this week. Conservative lawmakers and pundits around the country are calling for ACORN's federal funding to be cut, and for an investigation into alleged irregularities on thousands of voter-registration cards submitted by the organization.

The use of the death penalty has a long history in California. We look at whether it is an anachronism in this state due to the many obstacles preventing its use as punishment, and we look at current trends in death penalty cases in San Diego.

Libertarian-minded Tea Party activists have accused leading social conservatives of attempting to appropriate their smaller-government movement to promote the anti-abortion and anti-same-sex marriage agenda.