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Governor Jerry Brown appears ready to sign a majority-vote budget crafted by state Democrats, thus ending his efforts to broker a bipartisan deal in the legislature. We speak to KQED's Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers about the key elements of the budget plan, and the impact it could have throughout California.

Imperial Beach may still get its sand. The U.S. senate voted down a proposal that would have stopped federal money from shoring up the city's coastline. Charles Davis reports from Capitol Hill.

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

News that the CIA worked with a private contractor on a secret assassination program is the latest evidence of how much the agency has outsourced a range of its activities, including covert missions.

The California Senate, after a highly charged debate, approved a plan Thursday to trim the state's prison population by 27,000 inmates, acting over the objections of Republican lawmakers and law enforcement groups.

A forecast of U.S. economic activity rose for the eighth straight month in November, a private research group said, signaling the economic rebound will continue next year. The Conference Board said its index of leading economic indicators rose 0.9 percent last month, after a 0.3 percent gain in October.

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.

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.

U.S. mining experts say Chilean authorities face two daunting tasks as they try to rescue 33 miners trapped underground since Aug. 5: drilling a wide borehole nearly a half-mile down to reach the miners; keeping the miners safe and sane during four months of expected drilling.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is unveiling the Obama administration's plan to cleanse the financial system of toxic assets — the bad mortgages and securities that produced the credit crisis.