A federal indictment accuses a Pennsylvania woman of using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters and promote terrorism overseas, NBC News reports.

Israel approves the construction of 1,600 new homes for Jews in disputed east Jerusalem — a move that is sharply denounced by Vice President Joe Biden during a visit there.

States and other government bodies are making riskier investments to get higher returns for their pension funds in an attempt to pay all the benefits promised to retirees.

Dozens of former federal officials are playing leading roles in helping carmakers handle federal investigations of auto defects, including those for Toyota’s runaway acceleration problems.

Jobs in Washington D.C. are growing quickly, and in 2008 the city produced more in goods and services than almost anywhere in the country.

NYT: The Obama administration has been trying to keep defaulting owners in their homes. Now it will take a new approach: paying some of them to leave.

Iraqis voted in an election testing the mettle of the country’s still-fragile democracy as insurgents killed 25 people in the capital and sent down a barrage of mortars.

The U.S. has rewarded companies with more than $107 billion in contracts and loans while they were doing business with Iran, despite efforts to discourage investment there, The New York Times reports.

The Census Bureau estimates that there are four incorporated towns in the U.S. with just one person. But residents in three of those places say they aren’t the only ones living there.

The U.S. is concerned about terror links between Somalia and Yemen, and its assistance could be key to the effort by Somalia’s government to bring order after decades of anarchy.