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The grandmother of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan wept Friday as she discussed her grandson at her house in a wealthy suburb of this West Bank city.
ORLANDO, Fla. - One person was killed and at least seven were critically wounded in a shooting inside a downtown Orlando high-rise building Friday morning, authorities said. The suspect was described as on the loose and extremely dangerous.
As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship.
The economy is still shedding jobs, but at a much slower pace than at the height of the financial crisis this year, according to government figures released Friday. That bolsters the view that the economy is making a slow but steady recovery from the worst downturn in decades.
Voters defeated gay marriage measures in California last year and in Maine this week after conservatives convinced parents that same-sex unions would become common classroom fodder.
President Barack Obama is traveling to Capitol Hill to try to close the sale on his signature health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote in the House certain to be seen as a test of his presidency.
Interesting words from fellow Chicagoians.
In the wake of a shooting rampage at Fort Hood by a military psychiatrist of Middle Eastern lineage, the hosts at Fox News have begun suggesting that all Muslims in the military should be treated as potential threats.
Michele Bachmann's tea party yesterday may have left her with an inflated sense of her influence and popularity — at least, judging by the fact that she put the number of tea partiers who showed up yesterday to five times the estimate in some news accounts.
Extinct Neanderthals were the closest relatives we had, and tantalizing new hints from researchers suggest that we might have been intimately close indeed.
Here comes the biggest tax increase in decades! I really really can't wait for the 2010 elections. The democrats should be reduced to about 30 seats in congress.
Military officials, colleagues and neighbors are lauding Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who ran to the scene of the Fort Hood shooting and confronted the gunman.
As word spread that a gunman had opened fire at Fort Hood leaving a trail of carnage, a chilling realization swept across the U.S. Muslim community: He has an Islamic name.
A new national poll found that only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it. The numbers are about the same for parents who tried to get the vaccine for their children.
OK. Short article, hopefully a lively and CIVIL discussion. I keep hearing the phrase "Barack Obama is Destroying America" or some variant of that ("He's a Nazi" "He's a Communist" etc.). Would somebody please explain it to me like I'm in grade school?
More than two years after pledges to boost mental-health care, the promises have fallen short at U.S. military hospitals, say psychiatrists, Army officials, and wounded soldiers and their kin.
Soldiers and others recall the heroics of some and the cowardice of the shooter at Fort Hood.
I just received an email from the powers that be telling me that I am no longer allowed to comment in a particular user's seeds/articles, which has made me laugh, given that this particular person is constantly getting away with COH violations with nary a peep from moderators.
The murderer was an army major, a psychiatrist, a Muslim, born in Virginia. At this time 13 people are dead, 31, including the shooter,, are wounded. The investigation is ongoing. Who or what is at fault? How could it have been prevented? Can future events be prevented.
OK, I've been stewing on this for a number of weeks now. I've been noticing the rhetoric on Newsvine being steadily ratchetted up over the past few months that I've been a member. It's rather disconcerting and it's coming from both sides (and me included sometimes).
President Barack Obama still expects to have a health care overhaul bill to sign by year's end and plans to personally lobby for it in a visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday, the White House said.
An attorney for Joe Jackson filed papers in Los Angeles on Friday seeking a stipend, saying there was no apparent reason for the administrators of the estate to not seek an allowance for the 81-year-old family patriarch.
Law enforcement officials say a 5.7-millimeter pistol used in the Fort Hood shooting was purchased legally by suspect Nidal Hasan at a Texas gun shop.
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann named Rush Limbaugh one of the world's worst people Thursday evening for saying that an HBO special about President Barack Obama should get "anal poisoning."
The act is straightforward. It would require that 90 days after its passage, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner "submit to Congress a list of all commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds and insurance companies that the Secretary believes are too big to fail."
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