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Democratic and Republican congressional leaders shopped competing debt-crisis solutions and President Barack Obama canceled fundraising appearances Monday, as a politically gridlocked capital lurched into a climactic last full week before the Aug. 2 default deadline.

NFL owners and players agreed early Monday to the terms of a deal to end the lockout, and players were expected to begin their voting process later in the day, two people familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.

To help American car makers stay in business, autoworkers grudgingly gave up pay raises and some benefits four years ago.

One of the first prongs of President Barack Obama's health care law has been in effect now for a year, and the result in Missouri is that about 500 additional people with chronic health problems now have insurance.

The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of people every day is about to plummet.

With bipartisan debt-limit talks deadlocked, House Republicans and Senate Democrats readied rival emergency fallback plans Sunday in hopes of reassuring world financial markets the U.S. government will avoid an unprecedented default.