NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Home construction, a key component in any U.S. economic recovery, is picking up.

(CNN) -- A web video featuring former special forces officers accuses President Barack Obama of taking too much credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden and allowing classified information about the raid to become public.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A joint federal and state probe into mortgage-backed securities fraud is close to "significant action," with a possible announcement in coming weeks or months, according to a source familiar with the probe.

(CNN) -- A Pennsylvania judge on Wednesday decided not to restrict a controversial voter ID law from going into place.

(CNN) -- Hundreds of thousands of people who entered the United States as children but without documentation can apply -- beginning Wednesday -- to remain in and work in the country without fear of deportation for at least two years.

(CNN) -- Yet another one of NBC's programming decisions is being criticized, but this one doesn't have anything to do with the Olympics.

Racial tensions have reemerged over the possible appointment of Louisiana's first Black chief justice.

(CNN) -- Colorado paid the price earlier this summer. This week, new wildfires are burning through sagebrush, grass and beetle-killed lodgepole pines in California, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho.

(CNN) -- Lawyers for George Zimmerman, the Florida man charged with murder in the death of teenager Trayvon Martin, said Monday that they are appealing a judge's decision not to step aside in the controversial case.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House Oversight Committee filed a civil contempt lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday seeking the release of documents linked to a controversial weapons crackdown.