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  • Terror training camps smaller, harder to target

    Under growing pressure from U.S. missile strikes, the al-Qaida terror network is relying more heavily on local insurgent groups along the Pakistan border to house training camps that are growing smaller and more mobile, according to counterterrorism officials and analysts.

  • Obama will meet Netanyahu at White House

    The White House announced Sunday that President Barack Obama would be meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israeli prime minister's trip to Washington to address Jewish groups, ending days of uncertainty.

  • Obama calls new election law a milestone for Iraq

    President Barack Obama hailed the Iraqi parliament's passage Sunday of a much-delayed election law, declaring it a milestone as the Iraqi people take charge of their future.

  • House health care vote is just the first step

    Any momentum from Saturday's historic House approval of a sweeping health care overhaul is likely to be short-lived as the focus moves to the Senate, where progress has been stalled for weeks.

  • GOP officials say Dems put agenda ahead of country

    Democrats just don't get the election message from voters and are pushing a liberal, big government agenda at their party's peril, Republican officials said Sunday as they predicted a political price after the majority's victory on health care.

  • Senator: Senate will investigate Army shootings

    The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee says he plans to begin a congressional investigation of the shootings at Fort Hood.

  • Casey says war in Afghanistan needs more US troops

    The Army's chief of staff says he believes more troops are needed in Afghanistan. But Gen. George Casey isn't saying exactly how many more should be sent into the war.

  • Casey: Shootings leading to a hard look at Army

    The Army's chief of staff says the Army is taking a hard look at itself to make certain that something like the Fort Hood rampage doesn't happen again.

  • Alleged shooter tied to mosque of 9/11 hijackers

    The family of the alleged Fort Hood shooter held his mother's funeral at the same Virginia mosque that two Sept. 11 hijackers attended in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.

  • Couple's book tackles evangelicals' questions on climate change

    As an evangelical Christian living in Texas, climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe found that many conservatives had questions about climate change based on things they'd heard on talk radio.

  • Obama's Asia tour kicks off at critical time on home front

    President Barack Obama will leave the country for a four-nation tour of Asia starting Wednesday despite a host of domestic concerns, including the massacre at Fort Hood, a sharply rising jobless rate, his health care legislation stalled in the Senate and his Afghanistan troop decision still pending.

  • As oceans fall ill, Washington bureaucrats squabble

    Off the coast of Washington state, mysterious algae mixed with sea foam have killed more than 8,000 seabirds, puzzling scientists. A thousand miles off California, researchers have discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling vortex roughly twice the size of Texas filled with tiny bits of plastic and other debris.

  • House Roll Call: How they voted on abortion issue

    The 240-194 roll call Saturday by which the House voted to prohibit federal funding of abortions in a Democratic-written health care bill.

  • House Roll Call: Health care

    The 220-215 roll call Saturday by which the House passed a Democratic-written health care bill.

  • House kills Republican health overhaul bill

    The House has used a near party line vote to reject a Republican health overhaul bill.

  • Health bill clears first hurdle in House

    President Barack Obama's health care initiative has cleared its first big hurdle in the House, with lawmakers voting to advance the debate.

  • Obama prods House to pass health care bill

    President Barack Obama says now is the time for Congress to "answer the call of history" and approve legislation revamping the country's health care system.

  • House opens debate on historic health bill

    The House has opened debate on President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul that would extend insurance to tens of millions of Americans and enact dramatic changes to the country's medical system.

  • Key details of Democrats' health overhaul bill

    The House health care bill passed Saturday would:

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