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Liberal Democrats are making public their displeasure over the Obama administration's apparent willingness to abandon a public option for health care. One congressman says he might vote against a measure that doesn't include one; but a lobby group for insurance companies says it opposes a government-run plan.

Signs of the times are showing up in lunchrooms at San Diego schools. At one elementary school, enrollment in the free and reduced lunch program has increased dramatically. Joanne Faryon tells us why.

The president's party typically loses about a half-dozen seats in midterm elections. With 37 governorships at stake this year, that may mean bad news for the Democrats.

Amid recent concerns over the past firings of eight U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is reaching out to the ranks of federal prosecutors. Gonzales says he wants to talk about balancing Justice Department priorities with those of the local prosecutors.

Apple growers in New England are looking to hard cider as a way to beat dropping prices and foreign competition. The fermented cider was the drink of choice for the nation's founding fathers.

Disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham lied to fellow lawmakers on a House ethics panel about selling his yacht in order to disguise kickbacks from a defense contractor, according to a summary

Washington's state Supreme Court has ruled that it's permissible to confine sex offenders even after they've served their sentences, as long as they receive mental health treatment that could lead to their release. A federal court had been monitoring the state's sex crime confinement program since the 1990s, when allegations arose that it was used to keep sex offenders off the streets indefinitely.

Late last month, the 15 students who comprise Zaytuna College's inaugural class settled in to their first day in a classroom near the University of California, Berkeley. For these students, this is a chance to study with top Islamic scholars. For the school's founders, it's a chance to hone a new image for American Islam.

Moments after President Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, the expected partisan scripts kicked in. Competing ads have been launched on Web sites and television touting competing versions of Sotomayor's judicial history.

In the German town of Goettingen on Tuesday, three workers were killed and six wounded while trying to defuse an 1,100-pound Allied bomb -- a tragic legacy of World War II. In Berlin alone, officials estimate there are still some 4,000 unexploded pieces of ordnance.