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The president and his fellow Democrats came into office as unemployment was on the rise, and two years later it's still well above 9 percent. On Election Day next week, the party will likely pay the price at polls.

Democrats unveiled what they hope will be the final version of their health care overhaul bill after days of closed-door meetings, setting the stage for a showdown vote in the House on Sunday. With his top domestic priority hanging in the balance, President Obama again postponed an overseas trip that has already been pushed back once.

Bryant Neal Vinas is the most recent in a string of Americans who have gone to train with al-Qaida overseas. He ended up in meetings with some of al-Qaida's top leadership.

At the White House, the president and the oil company's top executives reached an agreement on the escrow fund the administration demanded to compensate victims of the Gulf Coast spill.

Mary Kay Henry replaces Andy Stern, who retired last month from the top job at the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union. SEIU's membership grew under Stern -- but so did some bitter internal divisions. Henry pledges to bridge those gaps, while also beefing up the union's organizing and its political clout.

As the top Republican on the House Budget Committee, Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan will deliver the GOP's alternative plan to President Obama's budget next week. He says he believes the economic crisis is being used as an excuse to grow the size of the government.

Two days after President Obama issued new ethics rules for top administration officials, a coalition of watchdog groups is calling on a Senate committee to reject his choice for a key position at the Defense Department. William Lynn III was a registered lobbyist for Raytheon within the past two years, so his approval would violate the new policy.

America's intelligence community has said the global economic crisis is now the top threat to the nation's security. The downturn could produce political instability and damage the ties that hold countries together. Countries might even be tempted to engage in financial warfare, officials say.

Kerry Killinger tells a Senate panel in prepared remarks that the bank had adequate capital and shouldn't have been seized by the government in September 2008. But two former chief risk officers said top management resisted their efforts to curb risky lending practices.

President Obama and top officials from 47 countries have gathered at an unprecedented global summit in Washington to forge a plan that would halt the spread of nuclear weapons and keep them out of the hands of terrorists — which he calls the single biggest threat to nuclear security.