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Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown, barraged by criticism for the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, will no longer lead the relief effort on Gulf Coast and instead will work on "big picture" issues in Washington, D.C.

Threats of violence are rattling Southern California campuses, days after the Virginia Tech shooting rampage that killed 33 people.

The Democratic-controlled House is expected to give final approval to an omnibus spending bill that includes $70 billion for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, ending a months-long impasse between Congress and the White House.

Which legal decisions can be used as a precedent, and which cannot? The question was raised in a piece in The New York Times this week about the Bush v. Gore case that decided the 2000 election. Legal commentator Mimi Wesson discusses the issue with Liane Hansen.

GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says he lost the Michigan primary to Mitt Romney because Romney is a Michigan native and he spent a great deal on ads. Huckabee insists he is doing well among non-evangelicals, including union members, the middle class and small-business owners.

What's it like to be a freshman Republican congressman nowadays? We speak to Congressman Duncan D. Hunter about his first year in office, the nation's ailing economy, and how he thinks the nation's health care system should be changed. We'll also get Hunter's thoughts on the U.S. military's strategic shift to the West Coast.

The House of Representatives votes to allow federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, setting up a possible veto by President Bush. The president has said he opposes research using human embryos. The bill passed by a vote of 238-194, not enough to withstand a veto.

Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility is the only State-run prison in San Diego County. It was built in 1989 and was designed to accommodate 2,208 medium to high-custody inmates -- today more than double that number, 4,680 inmates, call the facility home. What are conditions like for the prison population?

As part of our monthly segments on ethics in science and technology, we'll look at the controversy over researchers studying crime up close and personal.

Michigan holds its presidential primaries on Jan. 15. Here, a guide to what's at stake for the candidates, and the issues that will be on voters' minds.