Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York has four rent-stabilized apartments, including three adjacent units in a building owned by a premier developer.
AP - Struggling homeowners who can't afford their mortgages and banks facing big losses would get government help under a foreclosure rescue that has broad bipartisan support.
The bodies of two U.S. soldiers kidnapped more than a year ago during an ambush in Iraq were found by the U.S. military Wednesday, according to the family of one of the soldiers. Information from an informant led investigators to the remains of Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Michigan.
Teen pregnancies rose in the United States for the first time since 1991, the National Institutes of Health reported Friday. Federal health experts said they don't know why the teen pregnancy numbers went up from 2005 to 2006, and that not enough data have been collected to say whether it's a trend.
Phil Gramm, a top adviser to Sen. John McCain, on Thursday stood by his comment that the country is in a "mental recession" and explained to CNN that he was trying to say that the nation's leaders, not its people, were "whiners." The former senator from Texas also said the media was responsible for feeding fears about the economy. "Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day," he said.