1 dead, 5 hurt in shooting at Orlando office building

A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years...

TEXAS

Army psychiatrist blamed in Fort Hood shooting is alive

An Army psychiatrist who family members said began having second thoughts about his military career a few y...

UNEMPLOYMENT

U.S. jobless rate hits 10.2 percent

The nation's unemployment rate soared to 10.2 percent in October, putting pressure on Congress and Presiden...

POLITICS | ANALYSIS

Independents swinging to GOP

President Barack Obama and the Democrats have a problem heading into next year's elections for control of C...

GUANTANAMO BAY

Hunger-striking Guantánamo detainee is in danger, lawyers say

U.S. officials discounted reports by attorneys who claim a Guantánamo detainee who has been on a hun...

HOUSING MARKET | GOLDMAN SACHS

Amid the housing crisis, Goldman Sachs gives, takes away

A California couple close to losing their home found that Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs was the company b...

MORTGAGES

Little scrutiny for loans bought by Goldman

Goldman Sachs Group got into the residential mortgage business in 1984, and for 17 years, it ran a staid op...

HOUSING MARKET | GOLDMAN SACHS

Goldman Sachs bet on housing meltdown -- and won

A McClatchy investigation found that investment bank giant Goldman Sachs made secret bets on an imminent ho...

Is House healthcare plan the cure?

The centerpiece of a healthcare plan rolled out by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a government-run insurance...

CONGRESS

Report on Honduras coup spurs dispute

A legal paper exploring the origins of the June removal of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya sparked a polit...

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Congress honors Senate pioneer

Former Sen. Edward Brooke, a part-time Miami resident, received the highest award that Congress can bestow.

Army: Shooting suspect is critical, but stable

Suspect identified in Seattle police killing

Police described a suspect in the shooting death of a Seattle policeman as a "lone domestic terrorist" and ...

G-20 finance officials: Too early to end stimulus

Finance officials from rich and developing countries have pledged to maintain emergency support for their e...

Mass. father of boy in cancer case dies

The father of an autistic Massachusetts boy who died after his mother allegedly withheld cancer medication ...

Brother: Shooting suspect is a peaceful person

Army chaplain leads prayer for Fort Hood suspect

Soldiers and others are attending church services at Fort Hood, Texas, and in neighboring Killeen to pray f...

Some fear backlash against Muslims in US military

Some fear backlash against Muslims in US military

Some Muslim servicemembers are worried that the mass shooting at Fort Hood could unravel their work to be a...

Transformer fire disrupts Ellis Island activities

Fire officials say operations at Ellis Island have been widely disrupted by a transformer fire.

Police report says wrong-way driver a pot smoker

New York State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus hers...

Officer describes firefight that downed Hasan

One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan ...

Senate rejects GOP bid to ban a 9/11 federal trial

The Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday turned back a GOP-led effort to bar Sept. 11 terrorists from b...

Prison camps closure roils South Carolina politics

It's one year before South Carolinians elect a new governor and the possibility that the Charleston Brig co...

Italian judge convicts 25 in CIA kidnap terror case

An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terr...

White House: No swine flu vaccine yet for Guantánamo detainees

GUANTANAMO BAY

Hunger-striking Guantánamo detainee is in danger, lawyers say

U.S. officials discounted reports by attorneys who claim a Guantánamo detainee who has been on a hun...

Justice Department won't appeal order to free Kuwaiti at Guantánamo

A Kuwaiti Airways engineer whom the U.S. military has accused of being a key aide to Osama bin Laden has be...

Holder, Gates oppose restrictions on Gitmo trials

The defense secretary and attorney general are opposing an attempt to prohibit Guantánamo detainees from ha...

Muslim ex-Gitmo detainees face challenges in Palau

Six former Guantánamo Bay detainees brought to Palau for resettlement have received a warm official ...

Ex-enemy combatant gets 8 years as al Qaeda agent

An al Qaeda sleeper agent who admitted having contact with the alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001...

Obama revives military trials at Guantánamo

President Barack Obama brought back Bush-era military trials for terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay on Wedne...

Pentagon to offer swine flu vaccine to terror suspects

Even as some Americans await the arrival of their swine flu vaccines, the Pentagon has decided to vaccinate...