From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 2:24 PM

President Barack Obama and Republican lawmakers, seemingly trapped in inflexible bargaining positions, remain far apart on a deal to avert a first-ever default on the country’s financial obligations. (July 12)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 2:24 PM

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the United States will need to find savings across all aspects of government, and demonstrate to the American people that it can use their tax dollars more efficiently. (July 12)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 2:24 PM

Israeli police use stun grenades to disperse demonstrators during a pro-Palestinian march in the West Bank city of Hebron. Lindsey Parietti reports

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 2:24 PM

Iceland is considering a plan by the country’s health minister to limit smoking among youngsters by making cigarettes available only on prescription.

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 2:23 PM

Astronauts stepped out for the last spacewalk of NASA’s shuttle era. Space station astronauts Michael Fossum and Ronald Garan Jr. ventured out nearly 250 miles above Earth Tuesday. (July 12)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 2:23 PM

More than a dozen armed men abducted a naturalized American, her teenage son and Filipino nephew before dawn Tuesday from a southern Philippine island near a stronghold of al-Qaida-linked militants. (July 12)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 2:22 PM

Football reporter Ken Murray explains why the NFL lockout could be over by July 21st. (Emaun Kashfipour/Baltimore Sun)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 2:21 PM

Sherwood Schwartz, the man who created TV sitcoms like 'Gilligan’s Island' and 'The Brady Bunch' has died. He was 94. (July 12)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 11:23 AM

Like many cities, Whittier, Calif. is facing a tight budget. But city leaders say this community near Los Angeles is sitting on a solution: oil. They want to drill in a park. But neighbors say oil would sully the preserve they fought to protect. (July 12)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 11:23 AM

A Chinese toddler who fell 10 stories from her family apartment and was caught by a passerby has woken up from a coma, doctors in Hangzhou said Tuesday. (July 12)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 11:23 AM

Security officials say masked gunmen blew up a terminal of the Egyptian natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan in a predawn attack Tuesday. (July 12)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 11:21 AM

The latest celebrity news including the meaning behind beckham’s baby name and a Beatles reunion in the works?

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:16 AM

Nintendo says its classic mascot Mario will lead the way this holiday season, as it adapts classic titles to its newest technologies.

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:16 AM

Members of the mideast quartet meet in Washington D.C. (Rough Cut. No reporter narration).

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:14 AM

Robinson Cano of the Yankees outslugged Boston’s Adrian Gonzalez to win the All-Star Home Run Derby Monday night. Cano defeated Gonzalez 12-11 in the finals, after they each hit 20 home runs through two rounds. (July 12)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:14 AM

The National League tries for its second straight win in Major League Baseball’s All-Star game Tuesday night in Phoenix. (July 12)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:13 AM

A pharmacist has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in the shooting death of a teenager who tried to rob the south Oklahoma City store where he worked. (July 11)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:13 AM

The FBI is investigation how a stun gun got onto a JetBlue plane, which departed from Boston’s Logan Airport and landed at Newark's Liberty International Airport Friday night. (July 11)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:13 AM

Firefighters battled a four alarm fire at a synagogue in Manhattan that covered much of the Upper East Side in smoke. A local fire chief said about five firefighters suffered minor injuries. (July 11)

From: The Baltimore Sun on Tue, Jul 12 2011 8:13 AM

An Amtrak train smashed into a tractor-trailer Monday in a fiery collision that killed the truck driver, injured several others and sent flames more than three stories high in North Berwick, Maine, a witness and officials said. (July 11)