Despite Setbacks, Arizona Sheriff Won’t Yield the Spotlight

They Gather Secretly at Night, and Then They (Shhh!) Eat

By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN

Across the country, underground food markets are popping up, giving chefs a chance to show their stuff and maybe make some money.

• Slide Show

Budget Deal Fuels Revival of School Vouchers

By TRIP GABRIEL

Conservative Republicans across the country are advancing voucher programs, including plans to offer them for the first time to middle-class and even affluent families.

Spending Agreement Hurts Police and Fire Agencies

By MICHAEL COOPER

When lawmakers reached an agreement to keep the federal government open, they made budget changes that will make it harder for some struggling cities to hire police officers and firefighters.

Breast Device Recall Made Most Severe

By DENISE GRADY

The Food and Drug Administration reclassified the recall of a device that left metal particles in women’s breasts to its most severe.

• Prescriptions Blog: J. & J. Unit Recalls Epilepsy Drug

Bands Promote Awareness, and Giggles, but Aren’t Lewd

By SARAH WHEATON

A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled to allow a breast cancer foundation’s wristbands in school.

Study Ties Suicide Rate in Work Force to Economy

By BENEDICT CAREY

The suicide rate increased 3 percent during the 2001 recession and has generally ridden the tide of the economy since the Great Depression, a comprehensive government analysis found.

T.V.A. Considers Improvements for 6 U.S. Nuclear Reactors

By MATTHEW L. WALD

The Tennessee Valley Authority is the first American reactor operator to announce safety changes that it is weighing since the nuclear crisis at a Japanese plant last month.

• Resistance to Jaitapur Nuclear Plant Grows in India

T.V.A. Agrees to Shutter 18 Generators That Use Coal

By FELICITY BARRINGER

A legal settlement, announced by the E.P.A., could account for a loss of as much as a third of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal-burning capacity.

Obama Goes to Chicago to Talk Money, and Raise It

By MARK LANDLER and JEFF ZELENY

The president returned to his political home here Thursday for a fund-raising visit, bringing the message of fiscal responsibility and core Democratic values he laid out in a speech a day earlier.

Obama Puts Deficit Ball Back in Pentagon’s Court

By THOM SHANKER and CHRISTOPHER DREW

Despite saving billions of dollars already by canceling weapons programs and identifying inefficiencies, the Pentagon is under pressure from the president to cut another $400 billion.

Official in Charge of Air Traffic Control Resigns

By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

The F.A.A. official’s resignation came after several cases of controllers found sleeping as airplanes landed.

U.S. Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings

By RON NIXON

A small core of American groups played a bigger role in promoting democracy in Arab states than was previously known.

Interactive Feature: The Victims of the Shooting

Retirees, a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl born on 9/11 were among those killed when a gunman opened fire outside a supermarket in Tucson on Saturday, Jan. 8.

Interactive Feature: How the Rig Crew Responded to the Blowout

Video and diagram showing the final moments of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.

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Interactive Map: Every City, Every Block

Browse data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.

• Immigrant Path to Suburbia
• A Sampling of Highs and Lows
• Region Is Reshaped

Interactive Feature: Faces of the Dead

As we mark the seventh anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, we remember the fallen service members who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.