After conducting stress tests, regulators told the 19 largest U.S. banks that they must raise $75 billion in extra capital, a more upbeat assessment than the industry initially feared.
A recent series of attacks by insurgents have highlighted shortcomings, large and small, despite billions of dollars in American training and equipment, officials said.
AP - Drew Peterson, the former police sergeant who went on a high-profile media blitz after his fourth wife's disappearance more than a year and a half ago, will make his first court appearance in the drowning death of an ex-wife found dead in an empty bathtub in 2004.
AP - A man who Connecticut police say sparked two fearful days at a university by killing a student and threatening a campus shooting spree surrendered Thursday night after seeing his photo in a newspaper.
The suspect in the shooting of a Wesleyan University student will be arraigned Friday morning after surrendering to police Thursday evening, authorities said. Stephen Morgan has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Johanna Justin-Jinich, who was shot and killed in the Connecticut campus bookstore cafe where she worked.
A former police sergeant who authorities call the prime suspect in the disappearance of his wife, Stacy Peterson, has been indicted on murder charges, the Illinois state attorney's office said. A prosecutor told CNN a grand jury indicted Drew Peterson in the murder of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. State police said Peterson was taken into custody Thursday. Savio's death had been ruled an accidental drowning after her body was found in a bathtub.