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A growing number of San Diegans are having trouble putting food on the table. The San Diego Food Bank says it's seen a startling increase in demand for handouts. And with rising food prices and a sour

A videotape has surfaced of Alexander Litvinenko, the one-time KGB officer turned Russian dissident who was killed with a radioactive poison last year, and two colleagues telling Russian journalist Sergei Dorenko in 1998 that they feared for their lives.

A recent report from the White House estimates that up to 90,000 Americans could die from the swine flu this flu season. The report also estimates that 2 million people could be hospitalized, and 20 to 40 percent of the population could be infected by the H1N1 influenza pandemic.

The Senate debates the first major abortion bill of this Congress. The measure would make it a crime to take a minor to another state in order to avoid parental notification for an abortion.

Lawmakers are hardly the only ones questioning whether the Bush administration's $700 billion plan to bail out Wall Street will work — or whether it's even the right option. Here, a look at some of the objections being raised on and off Capitol Hill.

Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and California's Democrat-controlled legislature have a plan to curb the state's greenhouse-gas emissions. Supporters see the plan as a major breakthrough for climate change policy in the United States.

What should be the role of county government during these tough economic times? We discuss the current state of San Diego County.

The House and Senate passed bills to extend and expand the program, called S-CHIP, that provides health insurance to children of the working poor. President Bush has vowed a veto. And some claims about the measure don't stand up to scrutiny.

Just how much can you really trust a computer? This is the question being posed by concerned San Diegans about the electronic voting machines that will be used in next Tuesday's general election. Worr

North Carolina is fed up with air pollution from other states making people sick and blanketing its scenic vistas with haze. Now it hopes to force the Tennessee Valley Authority, one of country's biggest polluters, to change its ways by using one of the oldest types of lawsuits: the nuisance suit.