House Republicans Thursday for not approving a Senate-passed measure to extend lower tax rates on some households and said a compromise seemed to be out of reach.

An impatient President Barack Obama pressed top lawmakers to cut a deal, even one that falls short of the ambitions he and congressional leaders may once have harbored for a bigger deficit reduction package. Without a resolution, he warned, "every American's paycheck will get a lot smaller."

"Congress can prevent it from happening, if they act now," he said in his weekly Saturday radio and internet address.

Following a White House meeting Friday among Obama and congressional leaders, aides to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., began racing against the clock for a bipartisan bargain. TheMonday, April 28, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

The Museum of Modern Art

With Sergio Castellitto, Donatella Finocchiaro, Sami Frey. Framed by two gorgeously choreographed weddings—only one of which might be real—the stage is set for the spectacle of a film director in rapid decline. Sergio Castellitto is perfect as the depressive director saddled with cheating colleagues and demanding fans. When he falls for a princess in a castle guarded by two dogs and a menacing father, he’ll do anything to stop her wedding. Farcical and cynical in equal measure, the film is also a heartfelt critique of the state of the Italian movie industry and, by extension, the whole society in which “the Dead commands,” and everyone else cheats, deceives, usurps, and creates bad art, accompanied by hideous pop music. The