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In recent years, European leaders at the annual Munich Security Conference have roundly criticized American foreign policy. This year, things were different. Vice President Joe Biden's speech on Saturday unveiled a new caring, consulting and listening U.S. administration, promising sweeping changes in American foreign policy.

Senate negotiators reached agreement on a roughly $780 billion stimulus package, which aims to use tax cuts and spending to help jump-start the economy. Many Republicans say they still oppose the measure, which is set for a vote on Tuesday.

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IBM's Project Match allows employees facing layoffs to be transferred abroad to countries such as India, Brazil and the Czech Republic to work at local wages. Not all workers are happy, however. Julie Moran Alterio, senior business reporter for The Journal News in the Lower Hudson Valley, offers her insight.

The San Diego Zoo is sponsoring a forum Saturday on the state of endangered species. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce has details.

California's teachers union put up $1.25 million to fight the controversial gay marriage ban passed last November. At the same time, individual public school teachers were giving more money to enact the ban than to defeat it, according to an NPR analysis.

United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari was in Myanmar this week in an effort to bring about political reform. But he apparently failed to persuade the military leadership and detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to talk to each other. And the military shows no sign of giving up power anytime soon.

Republicans want to see rates cut to about 4 percent for 30-year fixed-rate home loans for borrowers with decent credit. The move could help to prop up the housing market, and it could save millions of homeowners a lot of money if they refinanced.

A small group is meeting at the Treasury Department — largely in secret — to rewrite the rules of how the government will save the banking system. It is deciding how to spend more than $300 billion — the remainder of the $700 billion in bailout funds.

President Obama's stimulus plan has taken a very public beating at the hands of Capitol Hill Republicans — and some Democrats. That's forced Obama to switch from a charm offensive to a sterner claim to a mandate as he pushes for the Senate to pass his package.