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The Department of Homeland Security has unveiled regulations to implement the Real ID law. The goal of Real ID is to make driver's licenses more secure as personal identification, preventing their use by potential terrorists. States have complained that the law requires them to spend more money on the new licenses.

A federal judge has put a hold on one of the Bush administration's key immigration measures. The policy aims to curb illegal immigration by identifying workers with fake Social Security numbers.

Local officials around Lake Pontchartrain thought they were safe from the oil, but tar balls have arrived. Now local governments are trying out some new ideas to scoop up the oil -- but innovation is expensive.

Poverty struck an additional 3.8 million Americans in 2009, driving up the number to the highest in decades. Advocates for the poor say millions more were kept out of poverty by stimulus programs, but fiscal conservatives say costly social aid programs haven't solved the problem.

Local officials across San Diego County say firefighters will get all the resources available from the state and federal government. KPBS reporter Andrew Phelps has details.

The Federal Reserve holds its last meeting of 2007 today, where it is expected to announce a cut in interest rates of 25 basis points (a quarter of a percentage point). The cut would be a reversal of the Fed's earlier movement; at the end of October, the it signaled that it didn't expect to cut rates again soon.

John McCain and Barack Obama met in their first debate Friday night and clashed over the financial crisis, taxes, spending and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The theme of the night was supposed to have been foreign policy, but the Wall Street meltdown and continuing negotiations over a federal bailout forced their way onto the agenda.

Until recently, Germany was one of Western Europe's last bastions for smokers. But now, that's changed. Germany's federal states have been introducing wide-ranging smoking bans, and they're not sitting well with many.

The State Treasurer is warning California may run out of cash if Congress fails to adopt an economic recovery plan. Bill Lockyer says for the last ten days state and local governments have been closed

Steve Inskeep talks with reporter Kevin Poulsen of Wired.com about his article on the arrest of an American soldier who is suspected of leaking classified U.S. combat video and other documents to WikiLeaks, a whistle-blower website.