AP - Residents warily watched as rivers continued to rise Thursday from heavy storms that dumped as much as a foot of rain in the Midwest and left behind more than a dozen deaths.
AP - Barack Obama's campaign said Thursday that evenly splitting Michigan's delegates with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton would be a fair way to distribute them, now that the chances of a do-over primary are essentially dead.
AP - A rise in jobless claims and a drop in a key forecasting gauge provided the latest evidence that the U.S. economy is faltering and may be slipping into recession.
Look into his face. He's put his life on the line in Iraq and he'll soon do the same in Afghanistan. Yet this decorated Marine is not an American. He's a citizen of El Salvador -- one of 20,000 "green-card warriors" serving in the U.S. military.
Congress and the Fed missed chances to keep the country from falling into recession by acting too slowly, according to a well-respected economist. CNNMoney.com reports that Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, says the economy is in what he calls "a recession of choice."