(AP) WASHINGTON — Precariously short of time, congressional leaders struggled in urgent, weekend-long talks to avert an unprecedented government default, desperate to show enough progress to head off a plunge in stock prices when Asian markets open ahead of the U.S. workweek.President Barack Obama met Saturday with Republican and Democratic leaders – but only briefly_ the day after House Speaker John Boehner abruptly broke off his own once-promising compromise talks with the White House. Staff members kept up detailed efforts.More... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/23/john-boehner-debt-ceiling_n_907812.html)