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The federal government agreed Tuesday to make an emergency loan of $85 billion to American International Group in exchange for a nearly 80 percent equity stake in the company. Why did the Federal Reserve act to save AIG and what does it mean?

Lawmakers are returning to Washington to vote on a two-year budget deal to lift the nation's borrowing limit, and put modest restraints on annual spending.

For a long time, much of the world saw the eurozone sovereign debt crisis as Europe's problem. Now world leaders, including the United States, realize a eurozone meltdown could have dire consequences for everyone. They are working up a massive rescue plan whose contours are beginning to emerge. Although Britain does not use the euro, that nation's politicians are using their party conventions to issue dire warnings about the euro's fate. And one eminent economist is proposing a novel solution to limit the impact of the European debt crisis.

A Democratic group is planning to spend millions on legislative campaigns in Republican-controlled statehouses — targeting states that have Democratic governors but GOP-dominated legislatures.

President Trump has issued a 90-day pause of U.S. foreign aid. There are big questions about what this could mean for health and development projects all over the world.

School is back in session, and the line between providing campus security and allowing for free speech is still extremely thin.

Mitt Romney delivered the commencement address at the nation's largest evangelical school, Liberty University in Virginia, on Saturday. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports this is the latest effort by the Republican presidential candidate to win over a part of the party base that has been skeptical of him in the past.

Human activity like cutting down forests and pushing out predators have allowed coyotes to thrive across the Great Plains. Agriculture sectors worry about losing livestock to coyotes.

Nearly six decades after becoming a lawyer, former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has been disbarred following his convictions on federal corruption charges.

In another first-in-the-nation move to address climate change, California will require automakers to sell more electric trucks. That could curb air pollution from the growing logistics industry.