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The Labor Department's employment figures for the month of December are a bit stronger than expected. And economists expect the labor market will remain relatively strong despite a slide in the housing industry.

President Bush wraps up the NATO summit in Latvia, where the focus has been on Afghanistan, and heads to Jordan for talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

On Tuesday morning, America's population is predicted to hit 300 million. Who are we? Increasingly we are: a single mom; a centenarian; an immigrant from Mexico; an Asian business owner; a baby boomer; someone named Jacob or Emily.

Thousands of Palestinians leave a refugee camp in northern Lebanon that has been the scene of three days of fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamic militants. The camp is one of a dozen created in Lebanon after Israel was created in 1948.

The massive Cedar fire in 2003 destroyed hundreds of homes in the San Diego area. Now, people who lost their homes in 2003 are providing both practical advice and inspiration to the victims of this week's devastating fires.

Wajid Shamsul Hasan, a senior adviser to Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister, blames scant security by the Pakistani government for the bombing attack hours after Bhutto's return to Pakistan after eight years in exile.

American Electric Power, an Ohio-based company, has agreed to a $4.6 billion settlement of a lawsuit over pollution controls at its power plants. The Justice Department says it's the biggest environmental enforcement settlement ever.

Michael Vick made a public apology Monday after formally entering a guilty plea to a dogfighting conspiracy charge. He apologized to the NFL and to his team, the Atlanta Falcons, and said he would redeem himself.

State prosecutors in Missouri have dropped child sexual abuse charges against the leaders of a small church, one week before their trial was due to begin. A defense lawyer said the charges were dropped after two of the accusers stopped cooperating with authorities.

Dozens of wildfires are burning out of control in southern California. More than 700 homes have burned and some 265,000 residents were evacuated. Walls of flame whipped from mountain passes to the edges of the state's celebrated coastline.