A government source says it is reviewing benefits available to "middle-class" families, such as the winter fuel allowance and child benefit, as it reaches 100 days in power.
Sonic boom: A passenger plane unintentionally violated the airspace around Air Force One prompting the Oregon Air National Guard to scramble two F-15 fighter jets.
Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are draining taxpayers and face extinction. Obama is due to present reforms in housing policy by January. One consensus: more help for renters.
The money for schools to rehire teachers, counselors and support workers is instead being set aside by school districts worried about cuts to come in the current school year.
Even as prosecutors prepare to retry Rod R. Blagojevich on the corruption charges against him, the calls to finally fix Illinois politics appear to have faded.
Iraq remains haunted by the decisions of the earliest days of the occupation, when the United States helped install opposition exiles to lead the country.
AP - President Barack Obama used the homey backdrop of a middle-class Ohio family's backyard Wednesday to try to show voters he shares their concerns about the economy, health care and Social Security.
AP - They were close. After three weeks of respectful but increasingly tense deliberations, 11 jurors were ready to convict Rod Blagojevich of what prosecutors called a "political corruption crime spree" that would have sent yet another former Illinois governor to prison.
AP - A court in Peru revoked parole for American activist Lori Berenson and ordered that she be arrested Wednesday and sent back to prison to finish the last five years of her 20-year prison sentence for aiding leftist rebels.
ABC News finds evidence that Islamic militant groups are taking advantage of Pakistan's flooding to win hearts and minds by handing out aid to flood victims.
President Obama says it will take time for the housing market to recover and that it's a "big drag" on the economy. Obama met with Ohio families to discuss the economy.
About one-fifth of Pakistan is under water. More than 1,400 people are dead and 2 million are homeless. But the U.N. says it's gotten less than half the aid money needed.
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