Since Raúl Castro took the helm in February, he's rolled out a series economic changes, including allowing Cubans to buy cellphones and giving farmers profit-incentives.
Citing the need to restore confidence in the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the president said he would set aside his objections to the legislation.
Local governments in Sichuan Province have begun a coordinated campaign to buy the silence of angry parents whose children died during the May earthquake.
AP - Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at helping 400,000 strapped homeowners avoid foreclosure and preventing the collapse of troubled mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
AP - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama paid a predawn visit to the holiest place in Judaism on Thursday, bowing his head in prayer at the Western Wall.
Leah Wells and two girlfriends decided to ditch the gym during an office lunch break and do some power-shopping instead. The three young women, all in their 20s and all black, ended up wrongly detained for shoplifting. Their offense, as Wells sees it, was being black in America. It's a common refrain from black people in the U.S., says CNN's Soledad O'Brien.
Hurricane Dolly was downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane today after it made landfall on South Padre Island, Texas, the National Hurricane Center said. But Dolly's sustained winds were still about 95 miles an hour. The storm is expected to produce from 8 to 12 inches of rain, with up to 20 inches in isolated spots, and widespread flooding is likely.
Jurors convicted the art teacher of forcing a boy to have sex with him repeatedly in a classroom supply closet. A judge sentenced him to 43 years. But Aaron Mohanlal has yet to spend a day in prison, and he lives 15 miles from his victim. "The idea of that monster being that close to my family again is outrageous," the boy's father told CNN for an exclusive report.
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