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The president's appearance Friday was partly about driving the discussion by pundits and the American people over the weekend. It's the last weekend before a deal must be achieved, according to the White House timeline, to meet the Aug. 2 date beyond which the Treasury Department runs out of accounting tricks to pay the nation's bills.

Our region provides a new home for tens of thousands of international refugees. This weekend the lives of some of San Diego's refugees will be revealed through photography and film at the first annual World Refugee Day. We'll hear about the contributions refugees have made to San Diego and details about what to expect at the event.

Gingrich's immediate problem is that he's lost key staff at a critical time, eight weeks before the Ames straw poll in Iowa. His medium term problem is that it's hard to convince donors and voters they should support you when your aides are voting with their feet and exiting your campaign.

No new survivors were pulled Wednesday from the rubble left by the single deadliest tornado in decades, but officials said they weren't giving up.

Fighting between rebel forces and troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi is at a standstill in eastern Libya. But a rebel fighter says they have gotten the go-ahead for a new offensive in the coming days. The remaining residents of Ajdabiya are bracing for a new round of fighting.

As the civil war in Libya drags on, optimism in the rebel stronghold has waned. Weapons given to rebels to fight Gadhafi forces are being used for other purposes. At times no one knows who is shooting, or why. The dangerous streets — and closed schools — are forcing many families to stay inside.

Osama bin Laden was holed up in a fortified compound north of Pakistan's capital Islamabad when four helicopters carrying U.S. anti-terrorism forces swooped in the early morning hours Monday and killed him.

Hundreds of secret documents show that military and counterterrorism analysts sometimes found it difficult to determine whether those held in the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay were truly dangerous.

President Obama and others say NATO and its partners must maintain operations in Libya as long as Moammar Gadhafi remains in power. But with rebels and Gadhafi's forces in a stalemate, there's concern the NATO operation may be insufficient to protect civilians — let alone force the dictator out.

But the alliance said Moammar Gadhafi's forces have changed tactics in the besieged western city of Misurata by moving tanks and other heavy equipment to civilian areas to prevent pilots from targeting them.