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This week, President Bush is expected to veto legislation that would add $35 billion to the State Children's Health Insurance Program. That's causing problems for vulnerable Republicans in Congress, who fear being on the wrong side of a popular issue.

Domestic security officials will get access, for the first time, to information from surveillance satellites. The decision was made by the Director of National Intelligence.

Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer testifies that Lewis "Scooter" Libby told him the identity of a CIA agent over a private lunch in the White House on July 7, 2003. That contradicts Libby's account that he learned the information from reporters days later.

The city of San Diego unveiled one of the largest arrays of solar panels in the state Thursday. It cost the city nothing to build, and will lower the cost of energy in the future. KPBS reporter Alison

The alleged "D.C. Madam" says her business was a legal escort service in Washington, D.C. — not a high-dollar prostitution ring, as prosecutors say. Deborah Jeane Palfrey expects to enlist some of the capital's top power-brokers to help her case.

How many illegal immigrants are in the United States? How many arrive each year? Where do we get these numbers and how reliable are they?

Before Hurricane Katrina came along, U.S. insurers didn't consider climate change when they assessed the risk of events like floods. Now they're factoring in a changing world, and it's costing consumers in places like New Orleans.

More people are delaying retirement, or coming out of it, because of financial need or boredom. We'll look at how older Americans are finding work in the modern world.

Ex-felons, and their hopes for redemption, will be on the ballot in Chicago Tuesday, when voters will elect a mayor and other city officials. Four former aldermen who were convicted on public corruption charges while in office have campaigned for their old jobs in an attempt to resurrect their political lives.

Several years ago, Golden Fence Company helped construct a fence along the Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants from entering the United States. Ironically, the owner of the company and its manage