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Sunday's Day 8 of the debt deal talks saw both sides express confidence that a grand bargain deficit reduction package would be reached, even as a parallel camp of lawmakers worked on a last-chance option containing a more-modest reduction; however, there was little new evidence Sunday that a deal was at hand.

NASA spacecraft Dawn entered into an orbit around asteroid Vesta on Saturday. It will study Vesta until July 2012. Then, it will travel to and study nearby dwarf planet Ceres in 2015.

Stocks will be hard pressed to turn the tide of recent selling this week as political jousting over raising the United States' debt ceiling intensifies.

She has lost weight even before her wedding. But that is not uncommon for a bride. It is only after her honeymoon that she looks like she has lost weight considerably.

U.S. President Barack Obama has defied and angered by meeting privately with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.

President Barack Obama will decide on Saturday whether to summon lawmakers for a new round of debt and deficit talks, weighing the chances of progress as both sides stick to their positions on spending and taxes.

Debt deal talks, Day 6: Unless the Tea Party compromises, a U.S. Government default is likely. For many voters, the Tea Party stance appears extreme, irresponsible, even irrational. But for Tea Party supporters, it’s a logical and necessary stance, when any compromise with a Democratic president is viewed as a defeat.

Stocks will be hard pressed to turn the tide of recent selling next week as political jousting over raising the United States' debt ceiling intensifies.

President Barack Obama will decide on Saturday whether to summon lawmakers for a new round of debt and deficit talks, weighing the chances of progress as both sides stick to their positions on spending and taxes.

President Barack Obama and Republicans traded demands for a serious deficit plan on Friday, as an acrimonious stalemate deepened in negotiations to avert a looming U.S. government default.

President Barack Obama and Republicans traded demands for a serious deficit plan on Friday, as an acrimonious stalemate deepened in negotiations to avert a looming U.S. government default.

President Barack Obama spoke with 10 astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station in a phone conversation Friday, offering his gratitude to those who have helped fly 135 shuttle missions in the past 30 years, USA Today reported.

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, and a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party's presidential nomination, has officially quit her home church in Minnesota that has been accused of holding anti-Catholic views.

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has officially quit her church.

The politics of Washington no longer have the people's best interests at heart. It's time for a complete restart.

Score Day 6 of the debt talks a wash: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said President Barack Obama, D-Ill., hasn't presented a real deficit reduction plan, but Obama countered that he not only has, but that the American people support his plan, which includes both revenue increases as well as spending cuts.

President Barack Obama and Republicans traded demands for a serious deficit plan on Friday, underscoring the lack of progress and acrimony plaguing negotiations to avert a looming government default.

The top Republican on Friday said President Barack Obama and Democrats had still not put a serious deficit plan on the table, underscoring the acrimony plaguing negotiations to avert a government default.

The United States' slow withdrawal from the Afghanistan War has begun, as the first wave of soldiers departed the country without other troops rotating in to replace them.

The Obama administration pushed back on a federal appeals court ordering an immediate halt of the U.S. Department of Defense's don't ask, don't tell policy, asking for more time to lift the ban on openly gay soldiers.