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Top congressional leaders from both parties joined presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain at the White House on Thursday for a meeting with President Bush. The aim was to complete a $700 billion rescue plan for Wall Street, but it appears no final deal has been struck.

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has called for an immediate influx of 15,000 troops to help stabilize the region, but analysts say that isn't all that is needed. The White House also has been seeking advice from Afghanistan experts outside the administration.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Tampa Bay Rays wowed baseball fans over the weekend. In the meantime, three of college football's top four teams lost on Saturday: No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 3 Missouri and No. 4 LSU.

For decades, pizza chefs — or pizzaiolos – around the world have held a deep admiration for Italian pizza maker Graziano Bertuzzo. As of this month, pizzaiolos can take classes from the master of their trade at a new pizza-making school in Northern California.

As foreclosures continue to rise, regulators and others are questioning the role of credit agencies, which gave top ratings to risky mortgage-backed securities. Critics say the system, in which firms are paid by the companies they rate, is inherently flawed.

A week after the U.N. Security Council authorized a huge peacekeeping force for Darfur, U.N. planners say they are on track to deploy a primarily African force, as Sudan has demanded. But a top State Department official says the Sudanese are going to have to accept anyone who volunteers to protect the millions of displace civilians.

Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte and Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher met with Pakistan's new leaders Wednesday in Islamabad. Officials in the new government have indicated to the top senior U.S. envoys that the U.S. relationship with Pakistan will have to change.

One of the reasons the handoff from the Bush administration to the Obama administration is proceeding smoothly is that the president-elect has learned from the past. One example: his decision to move faster than President Clinton to begin assembling his White House staff.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was directly involved in various stages of the process of firing eight U.S. attorneys, contrary to what Gonzales has publicly said, his former top aide told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday.

Bridget Lancaster and Jack Bishop advise using ripe fruit, extra-firm tofu and poking your hamburgers so they don't puff up like tennis balls.