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California and other states want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from new cars. But they've been delayed by the federal government. KPBS Reporter Ed Joyce tells us why.

NPR, along with The New York Times, is reporting on hundreds of classified documents concerning detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The documents were originally leaked to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, and come from the Pentagon's Joint Task Force at Guantanamo. In the papers, the government assesses the dangers posed by the detainees. An NPR investigation shows that some detainees, considered likely to pose a threat to the U.S. if they were released, were indeed let go.

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.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger meets tonight in Mexico City with other border governors and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. They'll be talking about border wait times, smuggling and the environment

A reputed Ku Klux Klan member is sentenced to three life terms for his role in the 1964 kidnapping and murder of two black teenagers. James Ford Seale, 72, was convicted in June on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in the deaths of Charles Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee.

A judge on Tuesday ordered the release of 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantanamo Bay and told the Bush administration to produce them in court Friday. The administration is appealing the order. If the attempt fails, the case likely will head to the Supreme Court.

Two federal judges have cleared the way for a possible cap on the number of inmates in California prisons. Marianne Russ reports from Sacramento.

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.

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.

President Bush vetoes bipartisan legislation that would expand health care coverage to millions of uninsured children. He objects to the bill's $35 billion price tag over the next five years, and, to what he considers an unwarranted expansion of the federal government in providing health care.