By ASHLEY PARKER
The agreement was reached after a setback for Speaker John A. Boehner and his team earlier Friday, when the House voted against their original plan to extend funding for the department for three weeks.
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Shahid King Bolsen has used social media to encourage frustrated protesters to attack the corporate interests of the Egyptian Army.
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
Jeremy Bird, a former Obama campaign organizer, has drawn fire from Republicans for his consulting work on an effort to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
By DANNY HAKIM and PETER EAVIS
Policy makers are taking drastic measures to revive the economy, resulting in financial transactions that seem upside-down.
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
Mr. Nimoy won a worshipful global following as Mr. Spock, the resolutely logical human-Vulcan first officer in the television and movie juggernaut “Star Trek.”
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
Mr. Nemtsov, a former first deputy prime minister of Russia, was killed in central Moscow in the highest-profile assassination in Russia during the tenure of President Vladimir V. Putin.
The Saturday Profile
By JODI RUDOREN
Nidaa Badwan’s project is called “100 Days of Solitude” in homage to Gabriel García Márquez’s novel, though her isolation has lasted much longer.