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The stakes are considered low for President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Thursday. But it's still a tricky proposition for a president who just committed some 30,000 U.S. troops to battle. He'll be feted abroad, even as Americans are squeezed economically at home.

Pablo Escobar was once the world's most wanted man, directing an empire of drugs and murder as leader of Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. Sixteen years after his death, his victims' families haven't forgotten about him. Nor has Escobar's only son, whose story is told in a new documentary.

Generations of children have grown up watching and learning from "Sesame Street." The furry red monster, Elmo, and his friend Kevin Clash join Maureen Cavanaugh in studio and talk about what it's like to live on "Sesame Street" and the love children have for Elmo and the other Muppets.

Hospitals, doctors and insurers are opposed to allowing people under 65 to join Medicare – an idea being considered by Senate negotiators struggling to put together the 60 votes needed to pass a health bill.

Redistricting is not a word that makes many hearts beat faster. But a new voter-approved Citizens Redistricting Committee could potentially make profound changes in California politics.

The California Coastal Commission is considering a request by environmental groups to revoke a development permit for a company that wants to build a desalination plant in Carlsbad.

Just in time for Holiday toy shopping, we get a new look at how gender stereotypes can actually hinder a child's development. We'll speak with the author of PINK BRAIN/BLUE BRAIN about why girls need more Legos and boys need more time away from the computer.

Democrats in the Senate inched closer to an agreement on health care, taking up the two biggest hurdles blocking overhaul legislation from a final vote: abortion and a government-sponsored public option.

A group of five moderates and five liberals say they've reached a tentative agreement on the public option but refused to give any details, pending a federal cost estimate expected Wednesday. It was unclear whether the deal jettisons a public option altogether.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, joins U.S. ambassador Karl Eikenberry in testimony to Congress a week after President Obama announced his new Afghanistan strategy. McChrystal said there are no "silver bullets" for success in Afghanistan.