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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

Militia movement resurfaces 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

Car strikes crowd outside Ala. school; 1 killed

Police say a woman has died after being struck along with nine children by a car outside an Alabama middle school. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:18:02 GMT

U.S. to drop case against Blackwater guard

In court documents Friday, prosecutors said they have asked that the case against Blackwater Worldwide security guard Nick Slatten, seen here at right in Washington on Jan. 6, be dropped.

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. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:48:58 GMT