The Bush administration yesterday prepared to take over the troubled housing finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, after concluding the companies don't have enough capital to continue to play their crucial role funding home mortgages.

NEW YORK -- Ed Pulido joined the Army at 18 and spent 19 years in uniform. He lost his left leg four years after being wounded by a roadside bomb in Baqubah, Iraq. And when he was discharged in 2005, with a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, he decided to the devote the rest of his life to work with...

LOS ANGELES -- California is poised to pass the first law in the nation linking greenhouse gas emissions to urban planning, a departure from the growth approach that spawned the state's car culture and urban sprawl.

MIAMI -- John J. Connolly was hundreds of miles away in 1982 when gambling executive John Callahan's bullet-riddled body was discovered in the trunk of his Cadillac at Miami's airport. The admitted shooter said he never met Connolly, the disgraced ex-FBI man at the heart of the agency's sordid de...

Advisers poring over the books of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac concluded that Freddie’s accounting methods had overstated its cushion, officials said.

Under the plan, the Treasury Department will buy billions of dollars in new mortgage securities issued by the companies and inject an unknown amount of capital into them.

Gov. Sarah Palin echoed Republican criticism of the size of the companies, while Senator Barack Obama voiced support of the plan but withheld final judgment pending details of the bailout.

With just over eight weeks left until Election Day, the two sides are settling into an unusually broad set of state-by-state face-offs.

The disappearance of Iowa’s iconic barn, a building whose purpose shifted, then faded away, tells the story of how farming itself has changed markedly in the state.

Leading members of Congress say that they do not think the F.B.I. has proved its case that an Army scientist was the anthrax killer.