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Mexican customs officials have begun screening cars traveling south across the border. The screening program, which hasn't started in Tijuana yet, is an effort to prevent guns and cash from being smuggled into Mexico.

Officials of the debt-laden Dubai World conglomerate are preparing to meet creditors owed some $26 billion.

More than 75,000 bridges nationwide are rated structurally deficient, which doesn't mean they are in danger of collapsing. Fixing them would cost billions. Joel Schwieterman, professor of public services management at DePaul University, speaks with Scott Simon.

Zachary Freeman loved to fish, dirt bike and camp - but most of all, he loved to watch off-road truck racing in the vast Mojave Desert northeast of Los Angeles. That love would cost the 24-year-old pipe welder and seven other off-road enthusiasts their lives when a truck competing in the annual California 200 careened off the sand track Saturday and into the crowd, instantly killing Freeman and his best friend.

Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles was released from federal custody Thursday in New Mexico; he is headed for his wife's house in Miami. The anti-Castro militant will be under house arrest pending trial for immigration fraud. His release is sure to stir anger in Cuba and Venezuela, which want Carriles in connection with the 1976 bombing of an airliner that killed 73 people.

In a hearing Wednesday, the court took up the question of overhauling laws restricting campaign spending by corporations and labor unions. It was Justice Sonia Sotomayor's first session since her Senate confirmation.

In a visit to Capitol Hill, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke tells lawmakers he does not believe that continued weakness in the housing sector will push the economy into a recession.

San Diego's Mount Soledad cross now stands on federal, not city, owned land. President Bush signed legislation authorizing the transfer effective immediately. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more

Federal authorities arrested 66 people in California and other states Wednesday in connection with a Mexican drug smuggling cartel. Law enforcement authorities say the alleged cartel leader remains at large. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson has the story.

We discuss another accusation against a $5 billion social program the state wants to cut. This time allegations government checks are being issued to dead people.