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.
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 earned his lowest marks ever on his handling of the economy in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, which also found that an overwhelming majority of Americans now describe the nation's financial outlook as poor.
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 - Democratic Sen. Patty Murray and her Republican challenger dove right into their fall matchup after winning the primary in a high-stakes election that could determine the balance of power in the nation's capital.
ABC News' Jim Sciutto get in a U.S. aid helicopter to visit Pakistan villages still cut off from everything by high water, discovering anger directed at the government.
Shaquan Duley told police she wanted to be free. That is why, they say, she smothered her two boys, put their bodies in a car and ran it into a South Carolina river.
Calling for the protection of humanitarian workers in Afghanistan, the United Nations says there have been 47 incidents of direct intimidation of U.N. staff and aid workers in the first six months of this year.
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