Two 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.

Hackers 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.

For 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.

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.

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.

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.

Police say a woman has died after being struck along with nine children by a car outside an Alabama middle school.

Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school.

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.

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.

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: 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.

A 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.

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.

A retired State Department worker and his wife accused of a three-decade-long plot to spy for Cuba plead guilty in federal court.

The mother of the man former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol had planned to marry has been sentenced to three years in prison.