As troubles in the US housing market ripple across the global economy, the health of banks has become one of the biggest financial uncertainties for 2008.
The latest nationwide New York Times/CBS News Poll underscores the volatility in the Republican race, and it shows economic worries topping the voters? agenda.
AP - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Sunday that Barack Obama's campaign had injected racial tension into the presidential contest, saying he had distorted for political gain her comments about Martin Luther King's role in the civil rights movement.
AP - The nationwide manhunt for a Marine wanted in the brutal slaying of a 20-year-old pregnant colleague who had accused him of rape focused Sunday on Louisiana and Texas, after he was apparently seen at a bus station.
The suspect in the death of a pregnant Marine may be heading to Texas -- or somewhere else. A man fitting his description was seen Saturday either on or getting off a bus heading to Texas, according to authorities. Still, Onslow County, North Carolina, Sheriff Ed Brown said Sunday that Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean will be found "sooner than maybe we had expected."
Colombia's child welfare agency has granted freed hostage Clara Rojas full custody of the 3-year-old son taken from her during her years in a rebel camp in the jungle, the agency's director said Sunday. "Emmanuel must be with his mother," the head of the Child Welfare Institute of Colombia, said.