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School officials are worried that too many teens are hitting and slapping the person they're dating. Across the country, schools have opened this fall with programs to help kids understand that hitting is not the way to get your point across.

Days after it was revealed that Iran has been building a secret nuclear enrichment plant, Iran staged a show of force, testing missiles that could reach Israel or U.S. bases in the Middle East. Will Iran's tactics provoke tighter international sanctions?

An Obama administration plan to build huge new solar energy plants in the Southwest is causing heartburn in the environmental community. The proposal would allow the construction of two dozen industrial solar energy facilities that require vast amounts of land and water.

An Obama administration plan to build huge new solar energy plants in the Southwest is causing heartburn in the environmental community. The Interior Department has proposed allowing two dozen solar energy study areas on public land in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado.

Mandatory water restrictions have been in place for about three months now. So, are San Diegans conserving? We take a look.

This year's San Diego City College International Book Fair adopts the theme Lucha Libro, a play on "lucha libre," or freestyle, Mexican wrestling. We'll find out why and we'll talk about the addition of children and young adult programming to the festival line-up.

Nations trying to stop Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program plan to tell Tehran in a key meeting Thursday that it must provide "unfettered access" to its previously secret Qom enrichment facility within weeks, an administration official says.

Looking forward to his next album, songwriter Pete Yorn envisioned a series of male-female duets inspired by late-1960s recordings of Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot. For Yorn, finding today's Brigitte Bardot was easy; he called actress Scarlett Johansson to see if she would collaborate — and she said yes.

In the days before Yom Kippur, which begins on Sunday evening, many Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, N.Y., will wave chickens over their heads and say the prayer of Kapparot (or Kapparos, depending on heritage). But the more than 1,000-year-old atonement ritual has concerned some in the community, who worry about animal cruelty.

Despite threats of sanctions, many experts believe the Iranian regime is unlikely to halt its nuclear program.