Senator Barack Obama?s top donors have raised less than $100,000 to help erase Senator Hillary Clinton?s debt, ?a paltry sum,? in the words of one Clinton official.
Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, outlined a series of steps the Fed is considering taking in the coming months to stem the crisis in the housing and financial markets.
AP - The Federal Reserve will issue new rules next week aimed at protecting future homebuyers from dubious lending practices, its most sweeping response to a housing crisis that has propelled foreclosures to record highs.
AP - A joint gathering of major developed and developing nations on Wednesday agreed that climate change was "one of the great global challenges of our time" and pledged to back a United Nations effort to conclude new climate pact by 2009. The major economies said they supported longterm and midterm goals for greenhouse-gas reductions, but endorsed no targets.
The relatives of a woman who died on the floor of a New York hospital say they are planning a $25 million lawsuit against the city and the facility where Esmin Green died. Surveillance camera footage captured the mother of six sliding off of a chair and onto the floor, where she lay convulsing for more than a hour before anyone helped her.
Between Army Spc. Jeremy Hall's two Iraq tours, he lost his belief in God. His sudden lack of faith, he says, cost him his military career and put his life at risk, prompting him to sue the Pentagon and others seeking a guarantee of religious freedom in the military. But a Pentagon official says "advancing a religious conviction is not ... what the military does."