CHINESE GROWTH REBOUND SHORES UP WORLD MARKETS
By PAN PYLAS People walk by an electronic stock board of a securities firm as Japan’s bench mark Nikkei 225 Index closed at 14,588.51 after gaining 119.37 points, or 0.83…
National governments
ANALYSIS: OBAMA’S BUDGET WIN HAS STRINGS ATTACHED
By JULIE PACE President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Lawmakers Wednesday voted to avoid a financial…
APNEWSBREAK: NEW CHARGES IN BLACKWATER SHOOTINGS
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER and ERIC TUCKER FILE – In this Sept. 25, 2007 file photo, an Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in…
BOEHNER’S JAM: CAUCUS LOVES BUT WON’T FOLLOW HIM
By CHARLES BABINGTON Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks to the chamber for the vote on a Senate-passed bill that would avert a threatened Treasury default and reopen…
FOOL’S ERRAND OR HEROIC STAND? GOP ON CRUZ, LEE
By DONNA CASSATA Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks to reporters waiting outside a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans as news emerged that leaders reached a last-minute agreement to avert a…
DUTCH DIPLOMAT BEATEN IN MOSCOW AT TIME OF TENSION
By LYNN BERRY A woman walks past the embassy of the Netherlands in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. A Dutch diplomat was beaten up by two unidentified men…
HO– USE GOP LEADERS SEEK SHORT-TERM DEBT EXTENSION
By ANDREW TAYLOR Senate Finance Committee chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., center, listens as Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew,back to camera, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013,…
POLICE: GUNMAN WHO FIRED AT US COURTHO– USE DIES
Authorities gather in front of the Federal Building in Wheeling, W.Va, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. West Virginia State Police say a man who fired shots at a federal courthouse…