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Smugglers tried to use Hurricane Dolly as a cover in at least three unsuccessful attempts to move drugs or illegal aliens through Texas, border officials said Wednesday.

It will be left to the next president to send a significant number of additional troops to Afghanistan, the Pentagon's spokesman said Wednesday.

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The House voted 272-152 to pass sweeping legislation that will offer up to $300 billion in aid to troubled homeowners and throw government support behind mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The nearly 700-page bill will now go to the Senate, CNNMoney.com reports. Earlier in the day, President Bush withdrew a longstanding veto threat.

Cold War scholars are hoping secret grand jury transcripts will shed light on some nagging questions about the evidence in the Rosenberg espionage case. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted and given death setnences in the 1950s.

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A partisan squabble in the Senate Wednesday threatened to sink a bill meant to crack down on oil speculators.

The U.S. Coast Guard has closed 29 miles of the Mississippi River from New Orleans southward after a tanker and a barge collided, spilling more than 400,000 gallons of fuel oil into the river.

America's middle class is growing increasingly squeezed by sagging incomes and soaring expenses, experts told Congress on Wednesday.

With a flick of the wrist, James Johnson uses an elongated cotton swab along the inside of his 102-year old mother's cheek.

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Tens of billions in taxpayer dollars have been lost, wasted or remain unaccounted for in Afghanistan and Iraq, and some of those funds -- and some missing weapons -- have landed in insurgents' hands, a U.S. senator alleged Wednesday.

Jurors convicted the art teacher of forcing a boy to have sex with him repeatedly in a classroom supply closet. A judge sentenced him to 43 years. But Aaron Mohanlal has yet to spend a day or night in prison. "I try not to think about it, but it's hard because all I can think about is what if he's out there around other kids," the victim told CNN for an exclusive report.

You might want to go green, but how do you know what you're buying is truly ethical? Greenwash -- the ignoble art of misleading consumers about a product's true green worth -- is on the rise. But thanks to the work of increasingly vigilant regulators, some of the more curious and downright spurious claims are being weeded out.

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Iraq's president has rejected the recently passed provincial elections law, his office said on Wednesday -- a move that appears to doom what has been touted as all-important legislation for the country.

For Atlanta native Leah Wells, it's the humiliation she remembers most.

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