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The mood on Wall Street was something short of jubilant Monday, reflecting just how much the historic financial district has changed since that September day nearly a decade ago.

Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with elite American forces, then buried at sea in a stunning finale to a furtive decade on the run.

The historic next-to-last space shuttle launch was scratched Friday because of mechanical problems, spoiling a visit from the president and dashing the hopes of the biggest crowd of spectators in years, including the mission commander's wounded wife, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

This week, Black people struggled to deal with what many perceived as a racially motivated dis of Obama at the hands of the "birther" movement.

President Barack Obama commended Panama's president for his leadership in resolving issues that had stalled a key free trade agreement between their two countries and said he expected Congress to ratify the pact as part of a broader trade package.

President Barack Obama is helping his pal Oprah Winfrey wrap up her syndicated talk show in style.

Eye-level watermarks, gutted buildings and rows of mobile classrooms linger as reminders of the flooding from Hurricane Katrina that nearly wiped out Southern University at New Orleans in 2005.

For the first time, American women have passed men in gaining advanced college degrees as well as bachelor's degrees, part of a trend that is helping redefine who goes off to work and who stays home with the kids.

President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will try to "root out" cases of fraud or manipulation in oil markets, even as Attorney General Eric Holder suggested a variety of legal reasons may be behind gasoline's surge to $4 a gallon.

President Barack Obama headed west to sell his big picture deficit-reduction plan. But many people are waiting for a quick fix to their own economic problems caused chiefly by persistent unemployment and the crippled housing market.