Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s landmark health care overhaul moved toward a vote in the House today after anti-abortion lawmakers won a chance to knock out language that would let federally subsidized health care plans cover abortions.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
MIAMI — A tropical storm warning has been issued for Grand Cayman Island as Ida gains strength over Caribbean waters.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor’s offices aren’t swamped with desperate calls. And there are no cries of injustice that the vaccine is going to wealthy corporations or healthy people who don’t really need it.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting allergy when the sounds erupted. A loud, popping noise. Moans. The sudden, urgent shout of “Gun!”
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is traveling to Capitol Hill on Saturday to try to close the sale on his signature health care overhaul, facing a make-or-break vote in the House certain to be seen as a test of his presidency.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the killing spree that left 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, dead.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and warnings that next year will be even worse than previously thought.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, offering fresh concessions to abortion opponents and working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
A man so broke that he said he didn’t have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at the engineering firm that fired him two years ago, killing one person and wounding five, authorities said.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren’t right in Carlsbad.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world’s rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenhagen.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Washington’s closest ally in Afghanistan, toughened his tone Friday with this harsh message for the Afghan leadership: Clean up your act — for real this time — or risk a cutoff of support.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
By saying he wants to step down as president, Mahmoud Abbas has highlighted a deep Palestinian despair rooted in decades of failed peace initiatives and fruitless violence.
Posted: Saturday - Nov. 7, 2009
Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earlier, she couldn’t stop crying.
Posted: Friday - Nov. 6, 2009
The floor of VFW Post 291 has been scuffed by the shoes and boots of veterans who fought in wars going back nearly a century, to World War I.
The setting is a comfort for Willis Cochran, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War.
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