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The Obama Administration has been on the defensive lately over its plan to overhaul the nation's health care system. With heated protests at town hall meetings across the country, the president and his Democratic allies have been trying separate fact from fiction in the debate.

With control of the health care debate slipping from his grasp, President Barack Obama pitched his ambitious plan to both conservative talk radio and his own liberal supporters Thursday - and denied a challenge from one backer that he was "bucklin' a little bit" under Republican criticism.

The California Senate, after a highly charged debate, approved a plan Thursday to trim the state's prison population by 27,000 inmates, acting over the objections of Republican lawmakers and law enforcement groups.

Stewart Copeland may be best known as the drummer for the legendary 80s rock band The Police, but he's also a composer for both film and orchestra. In 2009, La Jolla SummerFest presented Copeland's world premiere of his latest composition for percussion.

The GOP senator once helped lead efforts to hammer out a bipartisan bill on overhauling health care. Now he has criticized President Obama as "intellectually dishonest" and raised grave concerns about the possible effect of a Democratic plan.

What happens to those half-finished construction projects when they are abandoned by the developer? The properties are often times handed over to a receiver, who is tasked with managing the distressed property and eventually producing some form of income for the lender. We speak to Doug Wilson about what he does as a receiver, and about why his business is booming right now.

Whole Foods has taken pains to distance the corporation from founder and CEO John P. Mackey, but it may be too late. His article slamming Obama's health care plans has caused an uproar and led some to boycott the store.

The Kyoto Prize, Japan's highest private award for global achievement, is sometimes referred to as the Japanese Nobel. This year's laureates in Computer Science, Cancer research and Social Philosophy will be honored with a Gala and they will also give lectures at local universities.

The government's Cash for Clunkers program has rescued many auto dealerships from an otherwise moribund summer, creating what one dealer calls "a whole buying atmosphere." That has boosted sales even from buyers whose clunkers don't qualify.

A bloody riot at the California Institution for Men in Chino left dormitories in shambles, and sent 175 inmates to the hospital. The race-fueled riot was the latest example of the problems that currently exist in the state's overcrowded prison system. We speak to an SDSU professor, and the founder of the Second Chance program about what can be done to fix California's correctional system.