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A seven-year debate ended Monday when the San Diego City Council unanimously approved plans for 20-foot high wire to mark the symbolic boundary of La Jolla’s Orthodox Jewish community.

Habitual sex offenders and child molesters face tougher penalties. Law enforcement officials are pushing for new laws that they claim will help them track sex offenders. Opponents argue these laws ma

The White House has sent new language to Capitol Hill regarding the treatment and prosecution of terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. A group of influential Republican senators have opposed a bill on the subject that is backed by the president.

Voters across the West will consider initiatives this November to bar state governments from seizing private property through eminent domain. But opponents are most concerned about the initiatives' "regulatory takings" provision, which would allow compensation for the lost value of land affected by environmental regulations.

Tens of millions of dollars will be spent this fall convincing California voters that proposition 87 is either a wonderful solution or an awful mistake. The measure proposes to tax the oil drilled in

The Commanding General of the Marine Forces Pacific is in San Diego today. Lt. General John Goodman will lend his weight to the campaign against the Airport Initiative on the November ballot. KPBS rep

As an African Union peacekeeping force in the Darfur region faces a Sept. 30 pullout date, the international diplomatic community has decisions to make about Sudan. Susan Rice, an Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under President Clinton, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, sizes up the situation.

Defeated leftist candidate Andrew Manuel Lopez Obrador hopes to continue his battle against conservative President-Elect Felipe Calderon by launching a parallel government for Mexico. Can his supporters sustain the fight?

After communism fell in Romania, the outside world was outraged at the discovery of orphanages filled with neglected children. As Sasha Aslanian of American RadioWorks reports, scientists studying the effects of the deprivation are trying to learn how much recovery is possible.

July's presidential election left the nation almost equally divided between a leftist who wants to renegotiate NAFTA to protect farmers, and a conservative who wants to encourage more free trade deals. But treaties alone aren't the only source of Mexico's economic woes.