Extending Bush-era tax cuts has raised expectations of economic growth.

Two Palestinian gunmen are injured during a series of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

North Korea agrees to allow IAEA inspections as life returns to normal after South Korean military drills.

Opposition canidates are rounded up in Belarus after incumbend Lukashenko wins presidential election.

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has won an agreement from North Korea to allow nuclear inspectors to return while China continues to pressure Pyongyang.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., discusses the 9/11 responders bill, Start treaty.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) spoke with CBS News' Nancy Cordes about her hopes for the ratification of the new START treaty and her revised 9/11 health bill. Plus; Bill Plante hosts a roundtable with Nancy Cordes and Politico's Shira Toeplitz.

US Vice President Joe Biden on NBC's Meet the Press says he believes there is enough support in the Senate to ratify the new START treaty. Jon Decker reports.

Senate Democrats say they "will reach further" to pass START treaty.

An all-Star panel on the political back and forth over the START nuclear arms treaty.

Senate set to debate treaty ahead of 'secret session'

Wolf Blitzer reports from Pyongyang on Gov. Bill Richardson's impact on defusing new threats from North Korea.

George Will, Donna Brazile, Chrystia Freeland and Rajiv Chandrasekaran discuss options for the United States and NATO in Afghanistan.