To stimulate the housing market, Congress not only gave 600,000 Americans up to $8,000 for buying a home. It added interest on the credit, even if those houses weren't bought yet.

Spotify, a music streaming service from the UK, spent just two weeks in the US when it got hit with a patent infringement suit.

Debt-limit impasse has been all show and no substance. One solution to debt-limit dilemma over cuts or tax increases: 'pay as you go' for any further tax-cut extensions.

AP - White House officials and congressional Republicans are reaching toward a potential end to their bitter debt limit showdown, raising hopes that a deal could be in place by Tuesday to avert a possible federal default.

AP - Syrian activists say at least 45 people have been killed in military attacks on the flashpoint city of Hama.

AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday at the main gate of a provincial police headquarters in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 11 people in a city where Afghans have recently taken control of security.