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The Senate's new plan to battle the housing crisis includes tax breaks for homebuilders and tax credits to those buying foreclosed homes. It includes little helping for people who are facing foreclosure, however.

Stephen Colbert is the former senior correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. True to the industry he parodies, Colbert has landed the anchor's chair on a fake news show of his own.

Filkins accompanied a Marine company for eight days in November as they conducted an offensive on Fallujah. He followed the Marines from the outskirts of the city into the maze of streets, dodging suicide bombers, waking at 1:30 a.m. to a rebel attack, and sustaining the threat of friendly fire when the company was mistaken for rebels by U.S. troops.

"Each year that Wisdom returns, we learn more about how long seabirds can live and raise chicks," said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Beth Flint.

Advertising for products to treat symptoms of menopause is becoming much more upfront about issues like painful sex. But more than a few of the remedies are solutions in search of a problem.

President Trump gave an unplanned news conference in Brussels on Thursday. We have coverage and analysis.

movement two years after the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19th, 1995. Members are as angry as ever and remain convinced that American citizens are in danger from the U.S. government and `the New World Order.' But they also are more secretive than ever, and it's hard to determine whether they've gained or lost members.

is giving an additional television channel to every TV station in the country, to be used for broadcast of high resolution, digital signals. They'll be allowed to continue broadcasting analog programming on the existing channel in the meantime. The allocation is considered to be worth billions of dollars. Some federal officials complain that TV stations are not converting to HDTV fast enough. Stations respond that they'll have to invest huge sums in new equipment.

being brought against Boston University alleging discrimination in its treatment of learning disabled students. B.U.'s president, who has presided over tightened requirements for entry into special programs and the cutbacks in support services, took the stand yesterday. The plaintiffs' supporters believe his testimony showed that B.U.'s environment was hostile to the learning disabled.

the Democratic National Committee's top fund-raiser among Asian-Americans, John Huang. Huang raised four and a half million dollars for the D-N-C and then disappeared from sight last week, after the legality of some contributions was challenged. Today, Huang is scheduled to give a deposition in a civil suit against the Commerce Department, where he used to work.