U.S. stocks were poised to rally at Tuesday’s open, as investors grew more optimistic about Europe’s debt crisis being resolved. …   

There was no physical trace of Amanda Knox or Rafaelle Sollecito in the room where British student Meredith Kercher was found murdered nearly four years ago, Sollecito’s defense attorney said Tuesday as she began her closing arguments. …   

President Barack Obama concludes his West Coast trip Tuesday with a visit to a Denver High School.

The Senate on Monday night reached a bipartisan agreement intended to end a dispute over disaster relief spending that threatened to cause a partial shutdown of the government at the end of the week.

The Washington Monument remains “structurally sound” and is “not going anywhere,” a top National Park Service official said Monday, announcing the result of a comprehensive assessment of the structure’s interior.

It’s a time-honored adage about the laws of probability: Give 1 million monkeys 1 million typewriters and they’ll eventually type the entire works of William Shakespeare.

The standoff continues Monday between the House and the Senate over emergency funding.

An Afghan employee of the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan opened fire Sunday evening in a CIA annex at the embassy, killing a U.S. citizen, a U.S. government official said. …   

President Barack Obama will spend part of Monday hobnobbing with celebrities and other power-brokers in Los Angeles.

Part of the U.S. embassy annex in Kabul came under attack early Monday, a U.S. official and an official from the International Security Assistance Force said. …