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Amid pollution, protests and impressive pomp and circumstance, the opening ceremony kicked off the Beijing Olympics Friday. More than 90,000 visitors were in attendance.

Today promises to be a major landmark in the 17 year long battle over San Diego's Mount Soledad Cross. President George Bush is scheduled to sign legislation in the Oval Office to annex the land under

What were the highlights from President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address? We speak to a White House correspondent, a pair of local congressmen, and a political science professor about the speech.

California lawmakers questioned homeland security officials over delays and cost overruns on construction of fences along the US-Mexico border. Sara Sciammacco reports from Washington.

Prisoner-rights attorneys are asking a federal court to force California to reduce its prison population. Attorneys filed motions recently in two long-running lawsuits, arguing that the crowding has created cruel and unusual conditions in the state's prisons. KQED's Judy Campbell reports.

SDSU has initiated a ban on alcohol for the first five weeks of the 2008-09 school year for fraternities. (Sororities are already dry per national policy.) Fraternity recruitment was already alcohol

Should terror detainees be moved from the prison at Guantanamo Bay to sites throughout the U.S., like the brigs at Camp Pendleton and the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station? We speak to Congressman Brian Bilbray about the proposal to move the terror suspects. We also speak to Bilbray about border violence, the economy, and healthcare reform.

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With employers slashing jobs for the third straight month, there is a consensus building that the economy is in a recession. But the question remains as to just how bad a recession it may turn out to be.

The case against four leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood will soon be in the hands of federal jurors in California. Prosecutors claim the prison gang ordered dozens of murders and plotted a race war inside the nation's Supermax prisons.