Some of the largest U.S. banks have agreed to an $8.5 billion settlement to resolve claims that they abused financially troubled homeowners as they sought to foreclose on their home purchase loans at the height of the country's financial downturn.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama yesterday announced his nominations to serve as the next leaders of the Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency.
The preliminary hearing in the case of the Aurora Theater shooting got underway on Monday in Colorado.
President Barack Obama signed the $633 billion fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act into law on Wednesday.