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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.

An Army medical official says Nidal Malik Hasan has been transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio as details emerge about Hasan's background.

A new national poll found that only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it.