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Attorney General Michael Mukasey calls on Congress to set the rules by which Guantanamo detainees will challenge their detention. Lawmakers, not judges, should answer questions left open by a Supreme Court ruling granting detainees court access, he says.

A former lab technician at the University of California San Diego was arrested Sunday in connection with a bomb threat against a research building on the La Jolla campus, authorities said.

Historian Kevin Starr's new book, "Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge," recounts the history of this grand public work, its dazzling engineering, creative financing and its status as an American icon.

San Diegans who attended the swearing-in ceremony for their newly elected city council members got a taste of the different personalities who’ll be on the dais. Today they’ll find out what kind of l

It's been five years since the San Diego City Council voted to require contractors to pay a "living wage" to their workers. Local labor advocates are celebrating the anniversary this week. We will discuss the impact the "living wage" requirement has had in San Diego.

As residents flee the Gulf Coast region, the governors of Texas and Louisiana ask President Bush for federal troops as they prepare for Hurricane Rita. The Category 4 storm is expected to make landfall by Saturday, and officials have urged coastal residents to evacuate far inland.

A bloody crime wave has hit Tijuana again. During the last few weeks narco-traffickers have turned restaurants and highways into battlegrounds in their fight to maintain control of the city. The unpre

The bill would overturn the president's 2001 limits on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research. Bush is expected to nix it. Congress appears to lack the votes for an override, but the debate could have an impact on congressional elections in fall.

Congress is getting set to debate how much money to spend on the state children's health insurance program called S-CHIP. Forty San Diego clergy and community leaders are in Washington this week to ur

The CIA says it destroyed videotapes in 2005 of interrogations of terrorism suspects. A contempt of court proceeding over a Freedom of Information Act request would be only one part of the legal fallout. Another aspect is further damage to the credibility of the Justice Department.