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President Obama plans to address a joint session of Congress, hoping to regain momentum by abandoning generalities for specifics on what he wants in legislation. Nearly 16 years ago, President Clinton delivered a health care speech to Congress, but his reform effort was dead a year later. The Obama White House is determined to avoid that fate.

Kim Jong Un is playing a prominent role in his father's funeral and is already the object of fulsome praise from North Korea's official media.

West Wing Meets The Office

A Massachusetts teen who ended a pregnancy with a do-it-yourself abortion may be charged with murder/homicide. The Dominican immigrant took a drug commonly used to treat ulcers to end her pregnancy — a practice commonly used in other countries. Authorities say the charges will hinge on how far along her pregnancy was.

India plans to hang Kashmiri Muslim Mohammed Afzal, who was convicted of indirect involvement in the attack on India's parliament in 2001 in a trial that was riddled with shortcomings. Much hinges on India's president, a Muslim, who is handling a plea for clemency.

A nonpartisan group hoping to phase out and eliminate all nuclear weapons brings together leaders from the right and the left this week at the Reagan Library.

San Diego independent bookstores will lose some competition when Borders declares bankruptcy. But they are not celebrating the news, which they see as a blow to the bookstore business.

Egypt is set to start rewriting its constitution in March, a year after the fall of president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. During a visit to Egypt, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she "would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012."

An artist with an idyllic childhood might be as rare as a house with walls made of air, but both play a part in the story of architect John Lautner. Aesthetically influenced by his Northern Michigan upbringing, Lautner's designs have been featured in several films, including The Big Lebowski.

Persians are known for their poetry. So it is not surprising that following Iran's disputed elections, many Iranians have tweeted poetically. Meet 26-year-old Parham Baghestani, whose tweets range from the mundane to the spiritual.