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The governor has picked the next speaker for the California Assembly. We're joined on Morning Edition by non-partisan Sacramento political consultant Leo McElroy.

Democrats, who no longer have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, are weighing the use of a budget rule called reconciliation to pass at least part of the long-debated health overhaul package with a simple majority.

The U.S. government operated 100 boarding schools for American Indians on and off reservations. One expert says the schools were part of a strategy to conquer Indians. Students who attended them were required to talk and dress as mainstream Americans.

Health care for inmates in California prisons cost the state nearly$2 billion last year. It's doubled over the past three years. Stricter sentencing laws are keeping people in prison longer, and they're getting old and sick.

The former number three man in the CIA and a defense contractor, both longtime friends, appeared in a federal court today to answer to public corruption charges. Full Focus Reporter Amita Sharma was t

Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales steps down after months of controversy surrounding the firing of federal prosecutors.

A man with a rare, drug-resistant form of tuberculosis is under a federal quarantine order after returning from a trip to Europe. Authorities say he might have exposed passengers and crew aboard two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month.

Faced with a federal judge's threat to take over the entire state prison system, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new plan to make some space in the seriously overcrowded facilities … one that in

Questions about political pressure in the Justice Department spill over into the New Hampshire phone-jamming case. The state Democratic Party alleges interference when a federal appeals court overturned the conviction of an RNC operative who green-lighted a scheme to disrupt Democrats' get-out-the-vote efforts.

The Federal Communications Commission announces details of a settlement with four of the nation's largest radio broadcasters — Clear Channel, CBS Radio, Citadel and Entercom — over payola, the practice of accepting payment from record labels to air their artists without disclosing the arrangement to listeners.