Homeowners with good credit are falling behind on their payments in growing numbers, just as the problems with subprime mortgages have begun to level off.
The mounting toll inflicted by insurgents has refocused the attention of America?s military commanders and its presidential contenders on the Afghan war.
China?s state news agency reported that an attack killed 16 in western China as officials have thrown a tight blanket of security across Beijing ahead of the Olympics.
AP - Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago.
AP - Emergency teams were activated as residents along the Gulf of Mexico prepared to get hit with another round of tropical weather for the second time in less than a month.
AP - DNA taken from the bodies of people killed in the 2001 anthrax attacks helped lead investigators to Bruce Ivins, who oversaw the highly specific type of toxin in an Army lab, a government scientist said Sunday.
Tropical Storm Edouard formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, threatening to parallel Louisiana's coast while heading toward Texas, the National Hurricane Center said. Edouard will likely reach near-hurricane strength before landfall Tuesday, the hurricane center said.
DNA evidence from the deadly 2001 anthrax mailings led authorities to a suspect who officials say killed himself, according to a source familiar with the investigation. The DNA linked the anthrax used in the mailing to a flask used in Bruce Ivins' lab at the U.S. Army Medical Institute of Infectious Diseases, said the source.
Russian novelist and historian Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at 89, Russian news agencies reported. Given the Nobel Prize for literature in 1970, he was considered a moral voice for Russia. His "Gulag Archipelago" unveiled the horrors of the Soviet prison camps, where he spent eight years.
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