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President Obama is expected to outline his strategy in Afghanistan in a televised appearance next Tuesday. The announcement is expected to be followed soon by testimony on Capitol Hill by senior Obama administration officials.

The climate talks opened Monday in Copenhagen, with more than 190 nations represented. The U.S. and China have pledged some actions already, but negotiators so far haven't even agreed about what the overall deal will look like.

David Coleman Headley was charged Monday with helping to plan the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India. Headley is the Chicago man who was arrested in October in connection with a plot to attack a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammmed. This new charge makes Headley the first American implicated in the Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people.

The Labor Department said Friday the number of Americans who lost their jobs in November was fewer than expected. The jobless rate fell from 10.2 percent to 10 percent, raising hopes the economy is on the mend.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged Thursday to prosecute corrupt officials, and said the country would control it own security within five years. Karzai's comments came in an inauguration speech that kicked off his second term of office amid a growing Taliban insurgency and a cloud of corruption allegations.

President Obama is gearing up to address the nation Tuesday on how the United States and its allies will proceed in Afghanistan. Michele Norris was among a group of journalists invited to the White House to gain some insight on what Obama will say. She talks to Melissa Block about what she learned.

The Obama administration went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to sell its new Afghanistan policy to lawmakers. At the witness table before Senate and House committees: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Michael Mullen.

Days after President Obama announced his decision to send 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, who commands American troops throughout the Middle East and South Asia, talks with Steve Inskeep about a country where Obama cannot send more forces: Pakistan.

Richard Holbrooke, the president's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, says international support for the U.S. strategy is the most he has ever seen. Holbrooke is in Brussels where he is meeting with NATO allies who are discussing President Obama's request for more troops in Afghanistan.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, spent Wednesday pitching President Obama's revised Afghan strategy to his troops and Afghan officials. McChrystal acknowledged it's going to take more than words to persuade Afghans that Obama's new strategy can bring peace.