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.

HATE CRIME LAW

Obama signs 1st major gay rights legislation

A bill that President Barack Obama signed into law adds violence against gays to federal hate crime legisla...

Pa. locals, Flight 93 families united by history

Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking th...

Ida returns to tropical storm strength

Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph (72 kph), as it swirls in the Caribbean on ...

Alaska island village hit by suspected swine flu

Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island - prompting ...

Obituaries in the news

Donald Baim

After immigrant killed in NY, others tell of abuse

NY town marks year since immigrant fatally stabbed

The family of an Ecuadorean man slain on a Long Island street will be among those participating in a candle...

Court upholds removal of man after Nazi salute

A federal appeals court has ruled that Santa Cruz City Council members did not violate a man's rights when ...

UN urges Karzai to fight corruption

The U.N. Security Council joined calls Friday on Afghan President Hamid Karzai to fight corruption, with Se...

Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games

A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an ele...

Several hundred gather at Fort Hood vigil

Several hundred people gathered at a base stadium where the Army's chief chaplain offered prayers for famil...

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,359

As of Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, at least 4,359 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it b...

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...