CAPITOL HILL — The White House has announced that the top four Republican and Democratic congressional leaders are going to the White House late Wednesday afternoon to meet with President Barack Obama to try to resolve a political stalemate that has shut down large parts of the U.S. government.
On Friday, President Obama announced that he will host the White House Tribal Nations Conference at the Department of the Interior on November 13.
14 of the 30 people arrested after an attempt to scale the Gazprom oil platform in Russia's Pechora Sea have been charged with "piracy" on Wednesday.
The political impasse over President Barack Obama's health care law continues on Capitol Hill, after Congress missed a midnight deadline to extend federal funding. The Democratically-controlled Senate has rejected a last minute measure by House Republicans, and both sides are blaming the other for shutting down major parts of the U.S. government.