Reuters - U.S. Senate backers of a housing bill that the White House opposes cleared a procedural hurdle on Tuesday, moving toward expected passage of the measure that would create a multi-billion dollar mortgage refinancing fund.

Reuters - The Senate could vote as early as Tuesday on a housing rescue plan that would deliver billions of dollars in aid to borrowers facing foreclosure.

AFP - US Senator Hillary Clinton will return to congressional politics this week before staging her first joint appearances with White House contender Barack Obama, a spokesman said Sunday.

AP - A broad bipartisan coalition supporting a massive foreclosure rescue beat back GOP efforts to gut it Thursday, defying a White House veto threat and quashing a bid to make it victim to revelations about two senators' VIP mortgages.

AP - The White House said President Bush would veto a foreclosure rescue the Senate began debating Thursday, as GOP conservatives sought to block the measure amid a scandal over cut-rate mortgages for senators.

Reuters - The Senate will begin debate on a major housing market rescue bill on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday, spurning calls for delay by Republicans who cited concerns about a controversy involving two Democrats and a mortgage lender.

Reuters - Pentagon officials drawing up methods to question suspects after the September 11 attacks consulted experts who taught U.S. troops how to resist harsh interrogation, a Senate committee was told on Tuesday.

AFP - Harsh interrogation techniques used at US "war-on-terror" prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay were sanctioned by top US government officials in 2002 against the advice of lawyers from all branches of the military, a senior US senator alleged Tuesday.

Reuters - Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said on Tuesday she would do everything possible to "stop the sale" of St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos Inc to rival brewer InBev NV.