Monday was unpacking day for the astronauts at the international space station. Among the top items to be hauled into the space station: a new toilet and a contraption that purifies urine and sweat into drinkable water at the orbiting outpost.
At a time when the economy is hitting immigrants especially hard, many are missing out on benefit programs, activists and government officials say. One reason: fear of arrest.�
The U.S. on Monday agreed to hand out millions of dollars in development aid to provinces in Afghanistan that have eliminated or reduced the production of opium poppies.
The head of the largest U.S. labor federation urged President Barack Obama on Tuesday to use the $700 billion Wall Street bailout fund to help cash-starved small businesses as a way to stem rising joblessness.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the central bank will keep a close eye on the sliding U.S. dollar even as he pledges anew to keep interest rates at record lows.
President Barack Obama is telling Chinese students that the United States will always work to push for its core values of freedom of expression and political participation.
On a visit to China, President Barack Obama will encounter not simply a rising global power but a nation that is transforming the way Americans live, from classrooms to offices to the farms of Wisconsin.
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