Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was slapped by Oakland's Richard Seymour. Seymour was subsequently fined $25,000.

At a Nov. 19 Monitor breakfast, Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles discussed their plan to lower the US budget deficit, arguing that if reform doesn't happen, 'the choices will be made for us.'

Jennifer Grey and her 'Dancing with the Stars' partner, Derek Hough, took home the Mirror Ball Trophy on the finale of the dance competition.

AP - President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged the United States would stand "shoulder to shoulder" with South Korea after what the White House branded a provocative, outrageous attack by North Korea on its neighbor. Its options limited, the U.S. sought a diplomatic rather a military response to one of the most ominous clashes between the Koreas in decades.

AP - Insisting the nation's security could be in peril, President Barack Obama rallied former diplomatic and military chiefs from both parties Thursday to pressure reluctant Republican senators to ratify a nuclear weapons deal with Russia. He predicted he would gain the votes this year, though foes gave him little chance of success.

AP - Exhausted evacuees from an island attacked by North Korean artillery streamed off ships in this port city Wednesday, greeted by tearful family members and telling harrowing tales of the hour of destruction that sparked the region's latest diplomatic crisis.