The Senate is inching closer to voting on whether John Bolton should be the next US ambassador to the United Nations.
Stock markets in Europe and the United States plunged as the uncertainty continued over who would become the next US president.
The expected next US Treasury Secretary has urged the country's politicians not to allow automatic spending cuts to come into effect at the end of the month.
Negotiations over the next US budget are expected to run into the summer, but the White House says the document released on Wednesday is not an opening offer.
The man who is almost certainly going to be the next US secretary of state has given a broad hint that getting another round of Middle East peace talks going will be one of his top priorities.
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They walk by us on the sidewalk, and they sit next to us in class.
She plopped them on the top bunk and sat next to us, smiling but clearly unhappy.
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In the same dining experience a family with two young children were seated right next to us.
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We don't know what's next for us yet, but whatever it is we'll continue to do it as a family.
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We chatted with two cleanshaven young men dressed in shiny gray and brown suits who were sitting next to us.
Mr. PAUL MILLER (American League of Lobbyists): You can't say it and then call us the next day and ask us for campaign contributions.
The bartender, Joe, and the couple sitting next to us at the bar explained (in delightfully thick Long Island accents) that the town really comes alive in the warmer months.
"In my view, people that were actually on the same floor located right next to us who did not continue down with us, who turned around and went back up, or who hesitated, or who thought about it and looked out a window, who didn't make it out, " Simmon said.
Mr Ball next treats us to a brisk description of the human eye (remember rods and cones from school biology?), an explanation of why Newton was right and Goethe wrong about the composite character of white light, and an account of the 19th-century regimentation of the continuous colour spectrum by means of colour wheels and other classifying devices.
Health care is a superior good: as we have enough food to keep us going until next week we start to think about spending money on the health care that will get us to the next decade.
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Mr Obama wants a US drawdown of troops to begin next summer although US General David Petraeus - who this week replaced the sacked commander of multinational forces Stanley McChrystal - is among those insisting that has to be based on conditions on the ground.
These are the same people who one day criticize us for spending too much money, the next day criticize us for spending too little.
Even modeling a scenario in which Nokia stabilizes next year leads us to believe that the stock will under-perform over the next twelve months.
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Mickelson has won two Masters and a USPGA title and his next chance for a US Open breakthrough will come next year at Pebble Beach in California.
NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates is there to send us reports next week, and last night, she sent us this.
Hopefully, we see more ads like this from Budweiser in the US next year.
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No matter what happens to us next year, there will be a Super Bowl.
Join us next weekend for the American debut of Oblivion and basically not much else.
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But we will all stay tuned and see what the next episode bring us.
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He is also due in the US next week following his official trip to China.
One asset that he does expect to see unwinding next week is US government and municipal debt.
We will have to wait to see where the future takes us next.
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