Kai and crew broadcast live from the Citadel Outlets in sunny Commerce, Calif., to find out how shoppers are spending and how retailers are selling during this most-important holiday shopping season.

Dr. Nawal Al-Saadawi is 80. She went to Tahrir Square during the most violent period of clashes in late January, and was with the protesters until the resignation of Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, 2011.

Like the United States, China is wrestling with its health care systems. And party officials are looking to the U.S. for good ideas as they struggle to provide universal primary care for 1.3 billion people, from affluent city dwellers to nomads in poor western provinces.

A high-end housing development next to one of China's most polluted lakes is just one example of the country's battle between economic progress and the environment

Rents rise, rents decline: Depends on your paper of record. Mitchell Hartman dissects dueling reports on the state of the rental market in our latest Reporter's Notebook.