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With more than a million unemployed construction workers across the nation, President Barack Obama on Monday said he intends to spend to rebuild America's infrastructure and boost hiring, which will be key components of a plan he is working on to stimulate the U.S. economy.

Obama is under extreme pressure after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last Friday that the economy added zero jobs in August.

President Barack Obama previewed proposals on Monday for new infrastructure spending and an extension of payroll tax cuts as part of a major jobs package he will unveil this week, and challenged Republicans to find common ground with him.

I remember how bizarre the ride down the elevator was – packed like sardines with more than a dozen frightened people. Nerves were on edge – fears of what the attacks meant spiraled. Since we were on the 42nd floor, the elevator doors would periodically open at other floors below us with other people desperate to escape.

The yuan's recent gains are helping to tame China's inflation but it is too early to conclude that Beijing has won its battle to cool price pressures, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Monday.

Texas Governor Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney are tied in the race for the Republican presidential nomination among Californians, a University of Southern California/Los Angeles Times poll showed.

President’s speech in Detroit rallies supporters.

Four Republican state senators crossed party lines in June to vote in favor of New York's historic same-sex marriage bill -- and now the National Organization for Marriage has them in its crosshairs.

Ugandan teachers went on strike for the second time this year on Monday after fruitless month-long talks with the government for a 100 percent pay rise, the latest in a string of protests in the east African country.

A senior police officer said at the trial of Hosni Mubarak on Monday he was not aware of any order to fire on protesters who ousted him, as supporters and opponents of the deposed Egyptian president scuffled inside and outside the courtroom.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought to downplay his rift with the Tea Party at a New Hampshire country club on Monday, reassuring a crowd that he shares the paramount Tea Party goal of reducing government.

Libyan forces made ready to storm a desert town held by loyalists of Muammar Gaddafi on Monday but held off in the hope of a surrender that would avoid bloodshed.

An independent inquiry will investigate allegations that British security services were involved in illegally sending terror suspects to Libya where they risked being tortured by Muammar Gaddafi's government, officials said on Monday.

Famine has spread to six out of eight regions in southern Somalia, with 750,000 people facing imminent starvation, the United Nations said on Monday, and hundreds of people are dying each day despite a ramping up of aid relief.

He was pronounced dead by an onboard physician 90 minutes after departure.

The National Union of Students (NUS) Scotland was outraged by the proposed tuition hike, calling it both staggering and ridiculous.

Palin did not declare her candidacy for president, nor did she endorse any of the existing field of GOP candidates.

He leaves behind a young daughter.

The ailing U.S. Postal Service is on the verge of defaulting on a $5.5 billion payment unless Congress intervenes, sources told the New York Times.

As America nears a 10th anniversary memorial for the deadly 9/11 attacks from Al Qaeda, the U.S. is close to proclaiming victory in the war against the terrorist organization. In the latest development, with help from the U.S., Pakistan's main intelligence agency has captured a top al Qaeda commander suspected of planning attacks on American oil pipelines, tankers and other key economic targets.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Nevada had an unemployment rate of 12.9 percent in August, ranking it a dubious number one in the nation.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is madder than you-know-what about high oil and gasoline prices, and he's not going to take it anymore. He's introduced a bill, the End Excessive Oil Speculation Now Act of 2011, that would impose strict limits on the amount of oil speculators can trade in the commodity and futures markets.

Here are numbers showing job losses.

Here's a sad tale to tie into Americans: The United States Postal Service, which has been a national institution since Benjamin Franklin was installed in 1775 as the first postmaster general, is going, going, going and almost gone. In fact, one legislator says if Congress doesn't act and do something about the post office's problems, the agency could literally close later this year.

Some are wondering if it is already too late for Palin to announce her candidacy.

Robert Mugabe, who has been in power since 1980, has prostate cancer which has spread to other organs.

ronically, the Queen herself reportedly has her own Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Younis al-Mauritani, the army said, took commands from Osama Bin Laden and also planned and engineered operations for the terror network himself.

Chinese arms firms held talks with representatives of Muammar Gaddafi's beleaguered forces in July over weapons sales, but behind Beijing's back, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Monday.