Mr. Bush, after weighing a request for an in-depth interview on his religious views, granted a brief telephone interview en route to a New Hampshire airport.
It is considering the offers as it scrambles to meet a mid-October deadline to present a turnaround plan to the Japanese government, which is weighing a request for an additional $1 billion in emergency loans.
Now the Palestinians are weighing a request to the United Nations Security Council to support a bid for statehood, leaving Washington in the uncomfortable position of blocking such a unilateral move while supporting democracy movements in other Arab nations.
In recent years, Arizona has raised co-payments and frozen enrollment for poor adults -- and is weighing a request for additional federal money to preserve coverage for about 150,000 people and reopen the program to new applicants.
NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is weighing a request by two government inspectors general to open a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account for her work as secretary of state, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
Dr. Janet Woodcock, the F.D.A.'s top drug official, said the two-day meeting that begins on Wednesday was convened to weigh a review she requested in 2010 of an earlier clinical trial that Glaxo itself had conducted.
The Ninth Circuit is weighing a union request to rehear the matter.
In a related development today in Berlin, a spokesman for Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said Germany was weighing a new request from the United States to supply troops to guard American military bases there, starting at the end of January.
QUITO, Ecuador — President Rafael Correa of Ecuador has more than just the ire of United States to consider as he weighs an asylum request from Edward J. Snowden, the fugitive intelligence contractor trying to dodge American authorities.
But all of this scrambling is happening just as the Supreme Court is weighing an emergency request from North Carolina to reinstate the law ― including its reduction of early voting to only 10 days.
