Greece has been added to the US Visa Waiver Program, allowing its citizens to travel to the United States for 90 days at a time without a visa, the US Homeland Security Department said Tuesday. The announcement from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, which came as Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou visited Washington, adds Greece to a list of 35 countries whose citizens can visit the United States visa-free.

US aerospace giant Boeing said Tuesday it will decide whether to ramp up production on its 777 planes next month amid expectations of new orders for the twin-aisle airliner in the "near term. ""We're starting to see traffic come back," Jim Albaugh, president and chief executive of Boeing Commercial, said in a conference call with analysts.

Wall Street stocks posted modest gains Tuesday amid cautious trading on the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the market's rebound from its lows last year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 11. 86 points (0. 11 percent) to 10,564. 38 in final trades after a flat market a day earlier in the absence of market-moving news.

The United States said Tuesday it did not expect serious harm to ties with Japan after the new center-left government in Tokyo lifted the lid on past nuclear and military deals with Washington. The US government also said it has been faithful to agreements with Japan but declined comment on findings that it quietly brought nuclear weapons onto the allied nation's territory.

The White House and one of its top allies in the US Congress feuded Tuesday over a target date for enacting President Barack Obama's historic but embattled health care reform bill this month. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs stuck with his prediction that the House will vote on the sweeping legislation by March 18, when the president leaves for a week-long journey to Indonesia and Australia, calling it a "doable" time frame.

US authorities charged Tuesday an American woman known as "JihadJane" with recruiting jihadist fighters to plan deadly attacks in Europe and South Asia. The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against Colleen LaRose from Pennsylvania, who was arrested in October 2009, and said she had been given a direct order to kill an unidentified Swedish citizen.

The US State Department on Tuesday reiterated its call for Iran to help locate Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing on an island in the Gulf three years ago. "Mr. Levinson will remain a priority for the United States until he is reunited with his family," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said, reading a statment on the anniversary of his disappearance.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said Tuesday that President Barack Obama gave a "very positive" response to his call for a crackdown on speculators he blames for damaging Greece's economy.

An American woman known as "Jihad Jane" was indicted by US authorities Tuesday for planning deadly attacks in Europe and South Asia and recruiting "violent jihadist fighters" to carry them out. The Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging Colleen LaRose of the state of Pennsylvania with "conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft.

The White House Tuesday condemned Israel's approval of 1,600 new settler homes in east Jerusalem and said the timing of the move was not helpful with Vice President Joe Biden in the country. "The United States condemns the decision today by the government of Israel," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, adding that Biden, who is in Israel, would shortly make a statement.