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Low-income people are often shut out of a way wealth is built: real estate. There's a chance for poorer people to invest in their communities. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on March 5, 2023.)

In the first ever criminal case against a former president, Donald Trump has been indicted on charges involving payments made during his 2016 campaign to quash claims of two extramarital affairs. Prosecutors in New York focused on money paid to porn actor Stormy Daniels and ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal to keep the women from going public with claims that they had sexual encounters with him. Trump, who's running for the White House again in 2024, called the decision by a Manhattan grand jury to indict him "political persecution and election interference at the highest level."

Tiffany Dufu, CEO of tech startup The Cru, responds to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

Medicaid is shedding enrollees for the first time since the pandemic started. But rolls in some states are shrinking much faster than in others. Nearly 4 million people have lost coverage so far.

Oher alleged Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy presented him with a document establishing a conservatorship shortly after he moved in with him, and said it was "for all intents and purposes, an adoption."

The House sustained President Bush's first-ever veto of a bill to expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. But backers of the bill say that the politics of the measure will favor them in the end.

Investigators are still trying to determine just how much money investors lost in Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme. Estimates run as high as $50 billion. A big question facing regulators is how they could have missed a scheme that may date back as far as 20 years.

Treasury Secretary Geithner leaves Thursday for Great Britain, where he'll attend a meeting of the Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors. Those countries account for 90 percent of the global economy, and the purpose of the meeting is to come up with a coordinated plan for dealing with the international economic crisis.

Eight Marines were charged Thursday in the killings of 24 Iraqi civilians last year during a bloody, door-to-door sweep in the town of Haditha that came after one of their comrades was killed by a roadside bomb.

Pakistan is strongly protesting a U.S. airstrike that it says killed 11 soldiers at a border post. The men were part of the Frontier Corps serving on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The incident is straining an already tense relationship between the countries.