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.

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.