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Nerves fray at Fort Hood as deployment nears

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.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:51:55 GMT

Hasan had intensified contact with cleric

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.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:10:34 GMT

China coal mine blast kills 42, traps 66

Relatives of coal miners come to the accident site to wait for further information in the Xinxing Coal Mine in Hegang City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on Saturday.

A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in China, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:16:00 GMT

Sentence request for U.S. suspect in Italy killing

Prosecutors on Saturday were expected to request life in prison for an American student and her former boyfriend accused of killing a young British woman in Italy.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:01:35 GMT

Militia movement revives across U.S.

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.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:23:01 GMT