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Mississippi residents raced to shore up faltering levees Wednesday in hopes of holding back raging floodwaters that soaked cities upstream and are bearing down on one of the most poverty-stricken regions.

Lisa O. Monaco is now principal associate deputy attorney general. She has previously served as chief of staff to the FBI director.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors gave final approval today to a November ballot measure for changing the county charter to ban pre-bid deals with labor unions for taxpayer-supported projects.

The rules, which come two decades after Congress ordered the agency to regulate toxic air pollution, would give power plants nationwide just three more years to slash mercury and other harmful emissions. But some big power plants are angling for more time.

Every year since Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Social Security into law in 1935, it had taken in more money through payroll taxes than it paid out. Not anymore. Now, a nation that borrowed surplus revenues for decades has to start paying that money back. But where's it going to come from?

The foreclosure crisis is deepening in Massachusetts, Florida, Nevada and other states. Some analysts say foreclosures are tied more closely to bad economic conditions than to the type of loan homeowners have. Many troubled homeowners still don't know where to turn for help.

Premiums jumped by 9 percent this year, with the average price for employer-provided family coverage topping the $15,000 mark for the first time.

After two recent slayings, some taxi drivers - most of which are immigrants - are lobbying for equipment to make their jobs safer.

Christian leaders and Republican members of Congress are speaking out against the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek exhibit. One work — a 1987 video about the suffering caused by AIDS — has already been removed from the show. Religious leaders objected to its depictions of a crucifix crawling with ants.

All five defendants in the alleged bribery case involving San Diego SPAWAR defense contracts pleaded not guilty in court today.