WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI and Justice Department are undertaking a broad review of thousands of criminal cases to see if any defendants were wrongly convicted based on faulty forensics, the department said Wednesday.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Everyone hears about the huge baby boom generation—78 million of them in the United States with the oldest of the group now on Social Security.

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan's governor, education chief and the emergency manager for the financially troubled Highland Park school district were named in a civil lawsuit Thursday that claims students in the small, urban district near Detroit have been denied proper reading skills.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Politicians will be barred from speaking at this year's commemoration ceremony on the anniversary of the 2001 terror attacks, according to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Wells Fargo has agreed to pay $175 million to settle allegations that it discriminated against minority borrowers, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

(CNN) -- Florida's state attorney released FBI reports Thursday that may shed light on whether race played a role the night George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed teen.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama's re-election campaign insisted a "scheduling conflict" is behind the president's decision to skip this year's NAACP convention.

(CNN) -- The president of Florida A&M University announced his resignation Wednesday, more than seven months after the drum major for the university band died following a hazing incident.

(CNN) -- Mitt Romney knows he has a problem with African-American voters: Polls show they overwhelmingly prefer President Obama. A recent Gallup tracking poll showed just 5% of blacks supporting Romney, compared with 87% for the president.

JACKSON, Mississippi (CNN) -- A federal judge will decide Wednesday whether Mississippi's only abortion clinic can continue to stay open under a temporary order or whether it should permanently shut its doors under a new state law.