About one million laid-off workers will see their benefits end in January unless federally paid extensions are renewed.
The unannounced visit amounted to a stern pep talk to exhort President Hamid Karzai to do a better job of addressing corruption.
The American-flag ship seized by pirates in April repelled the attack; a captain was killed in a separate incident.
Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi, who blocked the measure over a provision on Iraqi refugees, said there was still time to amend the law.
President Obama has avoided public meetings with liberals, free press advocates and even ordinary Chinese.
After a close election, political consultants offered advice: grow a beard, visit the Bronx and listen to poor residents.
From Petaluma to Peshawar, volunteer cartographers are logging details of neighborhoods near and far.
The disclosure provides a road map to how the I.R.S. intends to pursue tax evasion cases at major banks.
Third-quarter earnings at the retailer fell 8.9 percent amid weak housing and renovation markets, but the retailer raised its full-year outlook.
Militants attacked an intelligence agency building in Peshawar, stepping up their fight against the Pakistani government.
As the war on cancer continues, with little change in the mortality rate, the few drugs proved to deter cancer are widely ignored, researchers say.
A judge dismissed murder charges against Fernando Bermudez, who had served 18 years for the crime, a shooting in Greenwich Village in 1991.
People in the Jurm Valley have taken charge for themselves, using village councils and direct grants as part of an initiative called the National Solidarity Program.
The White House counsel, Gregory B. Craig, has told associates that he intends to step down from his post on Friday.
The giant drug company said it would pull 1,400 jobs out of New London, Conn., eight years after its arrival set off a landmark battle over eminent domain.
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