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Syria Talks Signal New Direction for U.S.

An understanding with Syria could increase pressure on Iran to respond to the United States’ offer of direct talks.

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Stimulus Flows Into Patchwork of State Transport Projects

State transportation spending plans give the clearest picture yet of how one of President Obama’s programs is playing out.

• Graphic: Stimulus Projects

As the Homeless Move In, Some Paying Tenants Question a City Program

A program that places homeless people into apartment buildings is rankling tenants who say that landlords are pushing them out.

For Pakistan, Attack Exposes Security Flaws

A coordinated, commando-style ambush on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan on Tuesday revealed embarrassing security gaps in an increasingly unstable country.

• Times Topics: Pakistan
• Photographs | The Lede: Video and Reaction
• Avoiding Pakistan, New Supply Route to Afghanistan Opens

Ex-Leaders of Countrywide Profit From Bad Loans

Executives from the company synonymous with the excesses that led to the housing bubble are now making money by buying up distressed properties.

• Times Topics: Credit Crisis
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For Free Throws, 50 Years of Practice Is No Help

The rate at which players make free throws represents a stubbornly peculiar athletic endeavor.

• Game That Inspired ‘Hoosiers’ Shows How Free Throws Have Changed
• Room for Debate: Let the Record Be Unbroken

So You’re Dead? That Won’t Stop the Debt Collector

Next of kin usually have no obligation to assume debts owed by the deceased, but collectors may still call.

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