Bush aims to ease US mortgage woes: report

Posted by Rob Fleming on Aug 31st, 2007
2007
Aug 31

US President George W. Bush is set to announce for the first time a series of measures aimed at easing the US mortage crisis marked by rising defaults and foreclosures, US media said Friday.
The proposals target homeowners who have fallen behind on their mortgages and are the administration’s first official response to the troubled [...]

GOP reacts quickly to Craig sex scandal

Posted by Rob Fleming on Aug 31st, 2007
2007
Aug 31

Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho pleaded guilty in June to lewd conduct in a restroom.

By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the August 31, 2007 edition
Perhaps the most relieved Republican in the country this week is Alberto Gonzales. On the day the much-maligned attorney general announced his resignation, spurring renewed [...]