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Russian President Dmitri Medvedev defied U.S. pressure and signed a decree Tuesday recognizing the independence of the breakaway Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The move will further complicate strained relations with the U.S.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, accused in the attempted Christmas Day airliner attack, had contacts with at least two suspected terrorists while a student in London, investigators tell NPR. Intelligence officials have linked him to a suspect in a 2006 plot against airliners and to a man implicated in a plan to behead a Muslim soldier.

As San Diego waits for water fluoridation, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency re-evaluate how much fluoride is too much fluoride.

On Thursday, President Obama makes a major address on the uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa and what those events mean for the U.S. His comments will likely be compared to his speech in Cairo in June 2009, where he went to "seek a new beginning" in the region and the Muslim world.

Federal officials have arrested one of Mexico's top drug kingpins. Francisco Javier Arellano Felix is said to be a boss of the Arellano Felix Drug Cartel that's responsible for smuggling tons of drug

Along the rebuilding Gulf Coast, critics say there is too little thought given to preserving wetlands, as developers fill in the areas. In response to criticism from environmentalists who say the Army Corps of Engineers isn't enforcing federal wetlands-protection rules, the Corps is proposing that the rules be loosened.

This week, a collapsed hillside on Mount Soledad forces evacuations of 111 homes and destroys two more. Also, the City of San Diego's Charter Review Committee releases its recommendations for the 200

Some lawmakers say the U.S. economy may be in uncharted territory after Congress failed Monday to pass the $700 billion rescue package for the financial sector. The House lacked 23 votes to pass the legislation.

California's Poison Control system is on life support. The 24-7 operation lost half of its funding in the new state budget. Poison control officials say if they don't find an additional $6 million soon, the system will have to close.

Sen. Chuck Schumer's warning about a withdrawal of deposits from IndyMac may have led to the run on the California bank that brought about its failure last week, banking analysts say.