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A federal appeals court upholds Oregon's law allowing physician-assisted suicide. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's attempt to block the law exceeded his federal authority. The court also said Ashcroft's directive against the measure, which he issued in late 2001, was unenforceable. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and Oregon Public Broadcasting's Colin Fogarty.

The man in charge of medical care at California's prisons has unveiled his plan to eliminate what he calls “unconscionable human suffering” of inmates. And he says it won't be cheap. From Sacramen

It's been one week since a shootout between police and members of Tijuana's Arellano Felix drug cartel terrorized Tijuana. The shootout turned the streets in one of the city's upper-middle class neighborhoods into a war zone. KPBS reporter Amy Isackson returned to see how people are faring. She brings us this report.

Two phrases we hear more of these days are "income gap" and "income disparity" — the nation's top earners are seeing their pay spiral upward, while everyone else seems to be marching in place. The long-term trend stabilized in the late 1990s, but it has re-emerged in the past five years.

Severe thunderstorms and at least one tornado swept through central Florida early this morning. Gov. Charlie Crist has declared a state of emergency in four counties. Authorities say at least 19 people were killed.

Valentine's Day is usually reserved for flowers and chocolate, but there are many discrete and unusual legal issues surrounding this romantic day. We speak with These Days’ legal analyst about the le

The Darker Side of Hope (And the Audacity of 'Our Posterity')

President Bush visits the Wall Street economic hub, where he shook hands on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The president said that healthy macro-economic numbers are a tribute to his tax-cutting programs.

At the Lewis Libby trial in Washington, D.C., a second journalist testifies under subpoena about conversations with his secret sources. One of those sources was Libby. Another was Bush aide Karl Rove. The reporter, Time magazine's Matt Cooper, said he talked with both Libby and Rove about the identity of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame.

The government's latest figures on the economy show that the gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006, a stronger showing than many analysts had expected.