Obama Rejects Criticism of Shifting Syria Policy: 'I'm Less Concerned About Style Points'  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama says a tumultuous month as commander in chief, when his policy toward Syria took a number of unexpected turns, may not have looked “smooth and disciplined and linear,” but it's working.

Syrian chemical weapons agreement bound for United Nations Security Council  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO  —  The U.S. and Russia shook hands on a groundbreaking framework agreement Saturday to identify Syria's chemical weapons, place them under control of the Chemical Weapons Convention and its compliance body …

The Arguments of the Great Recession Are Over.  Hooray.  —  Five years after the financial crisis, the general expert consensus is that the Obama administration did a good but not great response job.  The financial rescue measures saved the banking system from wreaking deep, widespread destruction …

By the Book  —  What's the best book you've read so far this year?  —  I've been reading autobiographies to get me in the mood for writing my own and show me how it's done: Tolstoy (at one time my own memoir was to have been called, at my wife's suggestion, “Childhood, Boyhood, Truth"); …

Big U.S. banks keeping door open to another financial crisis  —  Big banks have watered down rules aimed at keeping them from fobbing bad loans off on investors and ensured loopholes in transparency rules.  ‘Fundamentally not that much has changed,’ an analyst says.

Full Transcript: President Obama Speaks Exclusively to George Stephanopoulos on ‘This Week’  —  Alexander Vilf/Host Photo Agency via Getty Images  —  Below is the full interview transcript of George Stephanopoulos' exclusive interview with President Obama for “This Week,” conducted at the White House on Friday, Sept. 13, 2013.

Securing Syria's Weapons May Require US Troops  —  The White House and the Pentagon have repeatedly ruled out “boots on the ground” in Syria, but Defense Department officials were less certain Thursday on whether U.S. military personnel might be sent to help secure or destroy Syria's chemical weapons.

Don't blame climate change for extreme weather  —  Bjørn Lomborg, an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, directs the Copenhagen Consensus Center.  He is the author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” “Cool It” and, most recently, “How Much Have Global Problems Cost the World?

Wall St. Exploits Ethanol Credits, and Prices Spike  —  It was supposed to help clean the air, reduce dependence on foreign oil and bolster agriculture.  But a little known market in ethanol credits has also become a hot new game on Wall Street.  —  The federal government created the market …