President Barack Obama urged Congress to reopen government and raise the debt limit immediately, while visiting the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Monday
The wife of Edwin Mieses, the motorcyclist who reportedly got critically injured in last Sunday's melee between bikers and an SUV driver, has hired the prominent attorney Gloria Allred to represent her and talk about her husband's condition
American researchers James Rothman and Randy Schekman shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine with German-born Thomas Sudhof for their "discoveries on how hormones, enzymes and other substances are transported within cells."
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has led the American delegation in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum in Bali and the East Asia Summit, which began over the weekend. Kerry was in Tokyo for security talks, and learned early last week that he would be also be visiting Malaysia and the Philippines. He has subbed in for President Barack Obama, as the White House canceled the president's planned four-nation Asian tour, in order to help deal with government shutdown in Washington
