Even borrowers with strong credit are feeling the pinch as home values fall and payments rise. Tuesday, several banks are expected to offer assistance to ease the burden.
On the eve of Tuesday?s Potomac primaries, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?s campaign increasingly believes that she has been boxed into a must-win position in the Ohio and Texas primaries in March.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama hopes to rout Hillary Rodham Clinton in presidential primaries in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia while Republican John McCain seeks to put more distance between himself and Mike Huckabee.
AP - National Guard and Reserve troops who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan make up more than half of veterans who committed suicide after returning home from those wars, according to new government data obtained by The Associated Press.
AP - A Defense Department analyst and a former engineer for Boeing Co. were accused Monday in separate spy cases with helping deliver military secrets to the Chinese government, the Justice Department said. Additionally, two immigrants from China and Taiwan accused of working with the defense analyst were arrested after an FBI raid Monday morning on a New Orleans home where one of them lived.
Condemnations rang out from several corners in Japan today after a 38-year-old U.S. Marine was accused of raping a 14-year-old local girl in Okinawa. Police also released more details of the alleged crime, saying the Marine had offered to take the girl home on his motorcycle.
The U.S. military is seriously deficient in meeting "the threat of Islamist insurgencies," says a Pentagon-commissioned study released Monday. The Rand Corp. report characterizes "U.S. military intervention and occupation in the Muslim world" as "at best inadequate, at worst counter-productive." The Pentagon asked the nonprofit research organization to review strategies to thwart insurgents.
Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are neck-and-neck in the battle for delegates. Clinton holds a narrow 27-delegate lead over Obama -- 1,148 to 1,121. That margin includes Clinton's share of "superdelegates," the almost 800 Democratic party leaders who also will vote at the convention this summer. Without the superdelegates, Clinton would trail Obama.