Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:33:20 GMT
Democrats have 60 votes to advance health bill
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:05:51 GMTTwo moderate lawmakers announced their support to begin debate on health care legislation, giving Senate Democrats the 60 votes needed to overcome a key hurdle and push the bill forward.
Hacked emails add fuel to climate dispute
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:34:47 GMTHackers break into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers and post an array of e-mails which causes a stir among skeptics who say discussions show a conspiracy.
Nerves fray at Fort Hood as deployment nears
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:51:55 GMTFor some in a Fort Hood platoon that lost three in the on-base attack, anxiety is heightened ahead of an early January deployment to Afghanistan.
Hasan had intensified contact with cleric
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:10:34 GMT
Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan exchanged e-mails with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers, according to two sources.
Stressed Marines got bad care, therapist says
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:22:40 GMT
Marines treated for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear live-fire training, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.
Militia movement resurfaces across U.S.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:23:01 GMT
A civil rights organization says it has identified at least 50 new right-wing militia groups that have formed within the last two years, in part coinciding with the advent of the Obama administration.
Car strikes crowd outside Ala. school; 1 killed
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:18:02 GMTPolice say a woman has died after being struck along with nine children by a car outside an Alabama middle school.
U.S. to drop case against Blackwater guard
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:48:58 GMT
The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting.
Long-term unemployed face dwindling options
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:04:28 GMT
For Lawrie Covey and millions of other unemployed workers, life remains a day-to-day struggle. Instead of working on RVs in a factory, she may soon be living in one.
Goldman Sachs on Thanksgiving trash duty
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:41:24 GMT
The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free Thanksgiving dinners across New York — meals cooked by a ritzy caterer and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms.
NYT: Battling binge drinking on college game days
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:48:00 GMTNYT: Students ejected from football games at the University of Minnesota are entered in a first-of-its-kind program, which requires them to meet with a counselor. After that, those who fail a game-day breath analyzer, or enter the stadium without submitting to the test, lose their season tickets.
Plea deal made in Mo. store scuffle case
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:27:20 GMTA black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers during a disturbance at a Walmart has agreed a plea deal with prosecutors convicting her of two misdemeanor counts.
Dozens arrested in UC student protest
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:48:50 GMT
Officials report the arrest of dozens of people who barricaded themselves in a building on the University of California campus at Berkeley to protest an increase in student fees and budget cuts.
Couple pleads guilty in Cuban spying case
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:54:48 GMTA retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a three-decade-long plot to spy for Cuba plead guilty in federal court.
Levi Johnston's mother gets 3 years in drug case
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:37:24 GMTThe mother of the man former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol had planned to marry has been sentenced to three years in prison.
