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

With the word's "let's roll," U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and relatives of United Flight 93 victims have turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony for a permanent national memorial at the western Pennsylvania crash site.

A man charged with killing a worker and wounding five others in the Orlando engineering firm where he once worked has been denied bond.

President Barack Obama said Saturday that the training designed to keep U.S. forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended the rampage at Fort Hood.

Police in Cleveland have identified another woman whose remains were discovered at the home of a suspected serial killer.

Questions about how many people the D.C. snipers killed aren't expected to end with Tuesday's execution of mastermind John Allen Muhammad.

The Navy is commissioning its newest battleship with a bow forged from steel that once held up the World Trade Center.

Members of Philadelphia's largest transit union and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority are set to vote on a contract to end the strike that has idled buses, subways and trolleys for five days.

Three lawmakers say Army briefers told them 38 people were wounded in the Foot Hood rampage — eight more than previously reported.

The cousin of the suspected Fort Hood shooter says family members have met with the FBI and answered all their questions.

Tenants claim they paid upfront for discount apartments in upscale complexes. But some say they're being evicted because the man they gave cash didn't pay the rent. Watch Video

A man who was so deep in debt that he did not 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.