Sentiment Shift: Home Prices to Rise

Home sales are up 10 percent from a year ago

2013-05-07

Chris Isidore CNN Money

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The majority of Americans now are forecasting home prices to rise, and only about a third are expecting prices to fall, a reversal in attitudes of a year ago. Read the complete article

International Talks Eye Peaceful Future for Somalia

Somalia’s president wants country to eventually ‘stand strong and tall on its own’

2013-05-07

Laura Smith-Spark CNN

LONDON (CNN) -- Somalia's president appealed for support for his struggling country Tuesday, comparing it to a young sapling that needs help to get started. Read the complete article

Glorious Colors in the Desert: Darfur's Fashionable Women

The Darfur Sartorialist aims to show to the world a different reality of this remote part in Sudan

2013-05-07

Teo Kermeliotis CNN

(CNN) -- When Pedro Matos arrived in conflict-ridden Darfur in 2009 to work as a humanitarian worker, the last thing he expected to encounter was dapper dressing and sartorial splendor. Read the complete article

Death Toll from Bangladesh Building Collapse Climbs Above 700

A fire in November at a garment factory in another suburb of Dhaka killed at least 112 people

2013-05-07

Farid Ahmed CNN

DHAKA, Bangladesh (CNN) -- The death toll from the disastrous building collapse in Bangladesh last month has risen above 700, authorities said Tuesday, as recovery workers continued to pull bodies from the rubble. Read the complete article

The Senate Votes Monday on an Online Sales Tax

The Market Place Fairness Act would still need to pass the House before it could become law

2013-05-06

Heather Kelly CNN

(CNN) -- Internet shoppers could be one step closer to having to pay sales taxes on online purchases. Read the complete article

Benghazi Whistle-Blower: Internal Review 'Let People Off the Hook'

The 'report itself doesn't really ascribe blame to any individual at all'

2013-05-06

Jake Tapper CNN Chief Washington Correspondent

(CNN) -- Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, told congressional investigators that the State Department internal review of the catastrophe at the mission in Benghazi "let people off the hook," CNN has learned. Read the complete article

Clarence Thomas: 'The Elites' had to Approve a Black President

Asked if he had met the 44th president, Thomas said the two have only met in passing

2013-05-06

CNN Political Unit

(CNN) -- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the high court's only African American jurist, opened up recently about his thoughts on race and the White House. Read the complete article

They're Baaack! Bugs Emerge After 17 Years

The life cycle of the periodical cicada is the stuff of horror movies

2013-05-06

Jacque Wilson CNN

This year Brood II is beginning to appear in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia. You can see reported sightings of the insect on this map. Next year Broods III will arrive in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri, and Brood XXII will come to Louisiana and Mississippi. Read the complete article

The Latest on the Boston Marathon Investigation

Officials will announce a plan on how to distribute roughly $28 million in compensation

2013-05-06

Holly Yan CNN

(CNN) -- As one bombing suspect recovers in a prison hospital and the other's body is being rejected by cemeteries, a whirlwind of new developments are swirling around the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings. Read the complete article

Video Of Bagram Plane Crash Legitimate, U.S. Official Says

About 12 seconds into the video, the Boeing 747-400 appears to stall, rolls from side to side, and drops

2013-05-06

Mike Ahlers CNN

(CNN) -- American authorities have concluded that a widely seen video does show a U.S. civilian-operated cargo jet crashing in Afghanistan last week, a U.S. government official said. Read the complete article