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• HEALTHCARE

  House healthcare bill has nowhere to go in Senate

  The government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to key Democratic leaders in the Senate.

• FORT HOOD SHOOTINGS

  Fort Hood suspect's warning signs unreported

  More information is coming out about the alleged gunman in the shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, last week that left 13 people dead and 29 hurt.

• DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT

  Action in Indian farmers' case

  Obama administration tells American Indian farmers and ranchers it is ``committed to resolving'' class-action discrimination suit.

• HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

  Democrats scratch for health votes

  Hoping to pass healthcare legislation as soon as possible, House Democratic leaders are trying to get the votes of skeptics in their own party.
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  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 ago. At least one person was killed and five others injured in the shooting at a downtown Orlando office building.

• 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 years ago is suspected of killing a dozen at Fort Hood.

• 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 President Barack Obama to do more to create new jobs.

• POLITICS | ANALYSIS

  Independents swinging to GOP

  President Barack Obama and the Democrats have a problem heading into next year's elections for control of Congress -- they're losing independents to the Republicans and parts of their own Democratic base to apathy.

• 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 hunger strike for four years is near death.

• 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 behind their subprime mortgage and was trying to take away their home.

• 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 operation that simply bought and sold loans.

• 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 housing crash -- while selling off billions in soon-to-be worthless securities.

• Is House healthcare plan the cure?

  The centerpiece of a healthcare plan rolled out by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a government-run insurance program, or public option, that would compete with private 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 political row in Congress.

• 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 legislation.

• WASHINGTON, D.C.

  Congress honors Senate pioneer

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

  Study: 10 years of diet, exercise can keep diabetes at bay

  A national study on diabetes, to be published online Thursday, concludes that people who stuck to a 10-year diet and exercise plan cut their risk of developing the disease by 34 percent.

• 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 both soldiers and terror suspects at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

• IRAQ

  Al Qaeda offshoot claims bombings that killed 155 in Baghdad

  Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed that it was behind the two truck bombings that killed 155 people Sunday.

• U.S. CONGRESS

  Lawmakers wary of some plans for bank oversight

  A plan by the Obama administration to dismantle ``too big to fail'' financial institutions has been rolled back by a congressional panel.

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