Daisy Khan said her husband, Feisal Abdul Rauf, planned to comment later this week on plans for a $100 million Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said the Obama administration's decision to file a lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is not surprising.

In a report released Monday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that Iran for two years had refused to answer questions that would enable the IAEA to make a determination about whether Tehran is trying to develop a nuclear weapons capability.

The president will outline the proposal during a speech on the economy in Cleveland Wednesday.

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A group of religious leaders joined Muslims in denouncing what they call "derision" and "bigotry" being directed at American Muslims as a result of the proposed Ground Zero mosque and Islamic cultural center.

Laid-off temporary federal workers, who were brought on to the government payroll by the U.S. Census Bureau to help conduct the 2010 Census, accounted for 43.6 percent of the increase in unemployed people in the United States last month.

Departing Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer says there is widespread consensus that the Recovery Act has saved or created somewhere between 2 and 3 million jobs. 

This year's volatile election is bursting with money, setting fundraising and spending records in a high-stakes struggle for control of Congress amid looser but still fuzzy campaign finance rules.

The United States expects to spend about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after it begins withdrawing its own combat troops in 2011.

One of the risks is that Islamist militants could seize on growing anger to increase support for their war against the state.

Abbas has said he'll quit peace talks with Israel unless the restrictions remain in place.

As of Sunday, Sept. 5, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had a backlog of fugitive illegal aliens of 506,232 people. This is slightly larger than the entire population of the city of Sacramento, California, currently at 466,687.

President Barack Obama, who has been campaigning for months, told a Labor Day gathering in Milwaukee on Monday that he has a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America's roads and rails and runways.

Despite the rise in unemployment to 9.6 percent, the U.S. economy is doing better and President Barack Obama is introducing further measures for long-term growth, said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Tuesday.

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie said as businesses sit back and wait to see what happens next in Washington, people remain unemployed.

'Images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan -- and around the world -- to inflame public opinion and incite violence,' Gen. David Petraeus told The Associated Press.

President Barack Obama used the terms "invest," "investing" or "investment" seven times in his Labor Day speech to describe federal spending and special-interest tax breaks.

NASA's pioneering use of prize competitions and innovation challenges is a dramatic departure from government's traditional "business as usual."

A NASA team sent to Chile to aid trapped miners will hold a news conference about their work at the San Jose gold and copper mine near Copiapo at noon CDT, Tuesday, Sept. 7.