President Obama made a last-minute personal appeal to Dems to pass landmark health care legislation as the House passed a key hurdle on its way to debating a bill to expand coverage to millions of the uninsured.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was so conflicted over what to tell fellow soldiers about fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan that a local Islamic leader said Saturday he was deeply troubled by it.

Leaders of the vibrant Muslim community here express outrage at the shooting rampage being laid to one of their members, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who had become a regular attendee at the local mosque.

A memorial to honor a Sept. 11 victim from a Connecticut town has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from his father's insistence it say his son was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."

Authorities say Anthony Sowell killed women and then left them in his home — fitting a profile shared by Jeffrey Dahmer: serial killers who hunt from home.

Saudi warplanes and artillery bombard a Shiite rebel stronghold in northern Yemen for a third straight day, according to the rebel fighters.

The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.

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.

The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five at the firm where he once worked crumbled under the stress of divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney says.

President Barack Obama said that the training designed to keep U.S. forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended a shooting rampage at Fort Hood.

Military officials, colleagues and neighbors are lauding Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who ran to the scene of the Fort Hood shooting and confronted the gunman.

Manhattan office workers who got carried away during the Yankees victory parade Friday apparently began tossing files and documents out the window when they couldn’t get their hands on confetti.

Dan Persa threw a touchdown pass and Marshall Thomas recovered a fumble for another touchdown, and Northwestern snapped No. 8 Iowa’s 13-game winning streak with a 17-10 victory on Saturday.

The president of the International Tennis Federation thinks Serena Williams will receive a fine but not be suspended for her U.S. Open tirade.

Despite the slow economy and even slower auto sales, a wide range of new cars is waiting on the other side of 2009.

Opinion: Ah, the good old days of two years ago, when Les Miles coached like a man who already had been fired and had nothing to lose. And LSU flourished. He needs to return to those ways to beat Alabama on Saturday.

Afghanistan's Defense Ministry says a NATO airstrike in a western province mistakenly hit a joint base housing coalition troops and Afghan forces, killing four Afghan soldiers and three policemen.

Investigators cracked a youthful burglary ring that preyed on Hollywood's rich and famous, often walking into their unlocked homes to make off with cash, jewels and family heirlooms, authorities said.

Many people in the Pakistani city of Peshawar blame "foreign hands," not the Taliban, for last week's heinous market bombing.

Senior Iranian lawmakers rejected any possibility of Tehran shipping uranium abroad for further enrichment, intensifying pressures on the government to reject the U.N.-backed plan altogether.

Officials along Mexico's Caribbean coast are readying storm shelters amid warnings that Tropical Storm Ida could become a hurricane as it nears the resort city of Cancun.

A federal appeals court has ruled that city council members in a Calif. city did not violate a man's rights when they ordered him removed from a council meeting after he made a one-armed Nazi salute.