TOP STORIES:
BUDGET BATTLE
WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to make any significant progress toward a deal Saturday even as a threatened default by the Treasury crept uncomfortably closer and a partial government shutdown neared the end of its second week. AP Photos.
EGYPT AID
WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. decision to suspend delivery of tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to Egypt is more of a symbolic slap than a punishing wound to the military-backed government for its slog toward a return to democratic rule. By Deb Riechmann and Lolita C. Baldor. AP Photos.
NSA-BACKLASH
SAN JOSE, California (AP) From Silicon Valley to the South Pacific, counterattacks to revelations of widespread National Security Agency surveillance are taking shape, from a surge of new encrypted email programs to technology that sprinkles the Internet with red flag terms to confuse would-be snoops. By Martha Mendoza. AP Photos.
PERU-BUS ACCIDENT
LIMA, Peru A makeshift bus carrying 51 Quechua Indians back from a party in southeastern Peru plunged off a cliff into a river, killing everyone on board, including 14 children. By Franklin Briceno. AP Photo.
VENEZUELA-GUYANA-SHIP DETAINED
GEORGETOWN, Guyana A ship carrying five American oil workers is headed to Venezuela's Margarita Island after that country intercepted the U.S.-chartered vessel in disputed waters off the coast of Guyana, a move that threatens to revive a decades-old territorial dispute between South America's biggest oil producer and one of the region's poorest nations. By Bert Wilkinson and Joshua Goodman.
BABY HOPE
NEW YORK (AP) Detectives solve the decades-old mystery of "Baby Hope," a little girl whose body was discovered inside a picnic cooler beside a Manhattan highway in 1991, and arrested a relative of the child Saturday after he admitted he sexually assaulted and smothered her, police say. By Colleen Long. AP Photos.
SHUTDOWN-NATIONAL PARKS
FLAGSTAFF, Arizona (AP) Tourists return to the Grand Canyon after Arizona officials along with several counterparts agree to a federal government plan to reopen national parks, which had been closed as a result of the partial government shutdown. By Michelle L. Price and Felicia Fonseca. AP Photos.
BUSINESS:
GLOBAL ECONOMY
WASHINGTON (AP) World finance officials pledge to deal with new risks to the global recovery while they kept up pressure on the United States to address the biggest threat of all a market-rattling default on U.S. debt. By Martin Crutsinger and Marjorie Olster. AP Photos.
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT:
FILM-HER
NEW YORK (AP) The colorful palette of Spike Jonze's wistful, slightly futuristic digital romance "Her" had an unlikely inspiration: Jamba Juice. By Jake Coyle. AP Photos.
FILM-FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
NEW YORK (AP) Charlie Hunnam is dropping out of the highly anticipated big-screen version of "Fifty Shades of Grey" just weeks after being cast as the lead, citing his busy schedule. By Jake Coyle. AP Photos.