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  • FAA Expected To Gain Flexibility On Budget Cuts
    The Senate has passed a bill to give the Department of Transportation more flexibility in how it makes the mandatory cuts of the sequester. Hundreds of flights were delayed this week after the FAA furloughed air traffic controllers, setting off a political storm.
  • First Western War In Afghanistan Was An 'Imperial Disaster'
    In 1839, Great Britain and Russia were playing the world map like a chessboard — and for no reason other than geography, Afghanistan got caught in the middle. In Return of a King, historian William Dalrymple tells the story of Britain's calamitous invasion.
  • Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. (left), leads a news conference about the Marketplace Fairness Act on Tuesday. The legislation would provide states with the authority to require out-of-state retailers to collect and remit taxes on purchases shipped into the states.
    Shifting Retail Landscape Tilts Support For Online Sales Tax
    The U.S. Senate seems ready to let states collect sales tax from more online retailers. Support for the measure has increased as businesses have converged their online and offline sales. "We're looking for consistency" in how taxes are collected, says the owner of a St. Louis pet store chain.
  • But is it GDP?
    Lady Gaga Writing A New Song Is Like A Factory Investing In A New Machine
    The government is about to change the way it accounts for the economic value of music and movies.
  • The federal health law is supposed to increase access to prescription birth control. But will doctors of the future be ready?
    Family Doctors Consider Dropping Birth Control Training Rule
    But reproductive health advocates says there's a big problem with leaving contraception training out: Many residency programs these days are run by religious hospitals that don't believe in contraception.
  • Spain To Unveil Economic Overhaul Plan
    Spain's jobless rate has exceeded even the most dire predictions. As Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy prepares to release a slate of economic changes, Spaniards are hoping he will heed their calls for mercy after years of budget cuts and austerity.
  • Don DeLillo at the 2012 Carl Sandburg Literary Awards dinner in Chicago.
    Book News: DeLillo Wins First Library Of Congress Fiction Prize
    Also: Rescuing precious manuscripts in Timbuktu; the birth of the Midwestern noir novel; and a campaign against explicit passages in The Diary of Anne Frank.
  • South Korean soldiers stand beside barricades as cars drive on the road leading to North Korea's Kaesong industrial complex on Friday.
    South Korean Workers To Leave Industrial Zone In North
    The symbol of rapprochement between the neighbors is the latest victim of rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
  • Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Winslow of Massachusetts wants same-sex married couples to have the same right to pool their money for political donations as other married couples. But the Federal Election Commission says the Defense of Marriage Act won't allow it. The constitutionality of DOMA is now before the Supreme Court.
    FEC: DOMA Limits Political Donations By Gay Married Couples
    Federal election law gives married couples some advantages in making political contributions. The Federal Election Commission this week tried to make those same breaks available to couples in same-sex marriages — but commissioners said they're thwarted by the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
  • House OKs Bill To End Air Traffic Controllers' Furloughs
    The Senate passed the legislation on Thursday. President Obama will sign it, the White House says. This means the FAA will be able to shift funds so that the number of air traffic controllers on duty no longer needs to be reduced in order to satisfy sequestration.
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