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The economy added 146,000 jobs, beating expectations. Hurricane Sandy had little effect on the numbers.

Detractors of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi breached the security perimeter of the presidential palace in Cairo. Some scrawled graffiti on its walls.

Lew, who earlier was budget director in both the Obama and Clinton administrations, has long been thought to be the leading candidate to replace Timothy Geithner.

New reports from the presidential campaigns show that Republican Mitt Romney last month widened his cash advantage over President Obama. But the numbers reported to the Federal Election Commission paint a more complex picture of the race and the vast amounts of money fueling the campaign.

The Washington Post journalist says he never characterized the White House as threatening him over a story on sequestration.

Fans ran for safety during the sixth inning after what police said was an exchange of gunfire between people in two cars.

Green Bay would not explicitly confirm whether Rodgers tested positive and would not comment on whether he is vaccinated. Multiple media reports say the reigning NFL MVP is unvaccinated.

The report finds that broadcast TV and children's series are increasingly diverse, but people of color remain underrepresented on all fronts, including lead roles, writers, directors and showrunners.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert demands a retraction from ABC News for reporting that he was involved in an investigation of a corrupt lobbyist -- even after the Justice Department had denied the report. Hastert has said that someone inside the Justice Department might have led ABC astray in an effort to intimidate him.

Half a century ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against segregation in schools. Yet patterns of housing and immigration have created in many areas schools that are extremely segregated. NPR's Claudio Sanchez and NPR's Ina Jaffe report from California, where in some places, the level of segregation is as intense as any in 1954.