SACRAMENTO, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Countrywide Financial Corp. agreed to a sweeping settlement for predatory lending practices that could restructure thousands of U.S. loans, officials said.
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America says it is trying to revoke its Rhode Island chapter's charter over a failure to disclose its head's $118,000 salary.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Congressional Democrats are calling on the Bush administration to hold off implementing new rules that broaden the FBI's investigative authorities until a new administration can approve them next year.
People of Iraq deal with their situation by focusing on the results of U.S. occupation instead of what brought about the challenges their country faces.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Failed attempts at peace and a surge in violence have prompted calls for the arrest of rebel leaders from the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.
WILLIAMS, Calif., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The driver of a bus that crashed in California killing eight people may have been under the influence of prescription medication, authorities alleged Monday.
PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Philanthropist Lorry I. Lokey, the founder of Business Wire, is giving $75 million to the Stanford University School of Medicine, the school said.
HELSINKI, Finland, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Security authorities from Central Asia are in Finland for a training course designed to counter transnational terrorism and other threats to border security.
CRAWLEY, England, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- British troops are honing skills in a simulator designed to represent realistic conditions on the ground in Afghanistan ahead of deployment.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- An impartial arbitrator has awarded U.S. singer R. Kelly $3.4 million in damages from tour promoter Leonard Rowe, court documents filed Monday said.
RALEIGH, N.C., Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Activists in North Carolina are urging state lawmakers to make reparations for 1898 riots that lead to the deaths of at least 14 black people in Wilmington.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The United States is ill equipped to handle the battle against terrorism without a drastic increase in diplomacy, according to a report released Monday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Al-Qaida has released a new video featuring American member Adam Gadahn, who declares the current U.S. economic crisis a victory for the terrorist organization.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Several U.S. agencies failed to see signs of fraud in the mortgage business that led to Wall Street, ABC News reported Monday after an investigation.
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BAGHDAD, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A plane carrying Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud Mashhadani was denied landing in Iran and returned to Baghdad Monday for undisclosed reasons.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq issued a follow-up statement to appeals made to the U.S. Treasury Department's decision to freeze its assets.