Captured: U.S. special forces on Saturday captured a man in Libya accused by the United States of involvement in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Africa, The Associated Press reports. Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Abu Anas al-Libi, has been on the FBI's most wanted terrorists list since it was introduced shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Recalled: The U.S. Defense Department announced Saturday that it was bringing most of its civilian employees back to work, Reuters reports. The Pentagon determined through a legal review of the Pay Our Military Act, signed by President Barack Obama on Monday on the eve of the shutdown, that the vast majority of its 350,000 civilian employees could work.
Committed: John Boehner, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said Sunday that he wouldn't support measures to open the U.S. government or raise the debt ceiling without concessions from Obama, The New York Times reports.
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