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Alleged Ft. Hood gunman may have 9/11 mosque link (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:28 PM PST

A soldier reads a bible during church service at the First Air Calvary Division Memorial Chapel at Fort Hood, Texas on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/LM Otero)AP - A key U.S. senator said Sunday he would begin an investigation into whether the Army missed signs that the man accused of opening fire at Fort Hood had embraced an increasingly extremist view of Islamic ideology.

Gov. Ed Rendell: Philadelphia transit strike over (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:24 PM PST

In this photograph provided by 'Meet the Press,' Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell appears on 'Meet the Press'' Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, at the NBC studios in Washington. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, William B. Plowman) NO SALES **AP - Gov. Ed Rendell says a transit strike that shut down Philadelphia's buses, subways and trolleys for nearly a week is over.

Late-season hurricane takes aim at US Gulf Coast (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 07:25 PM PST

A man walks along a beach eroded from large waves after Hurricane Ida passed nearby in Cancun, Mexico, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. Ida has grew into a hurricane Sunday for a second time as it roared over the Caribbean on a path that could take it between Cuba and Mexico's resort-studded Yucatan Peninsula before heading for the southern United States. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)AP - Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the United States this year, plodded Sunday toward the Gulf Coast with 105 mph winds, bringing the threat of flooding and storm surges.

Ill. prosecutors seek journalism students' grades (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:52 AM PST

This Oct. 26, 2009, photo Northwestern University professor David Protess, founder of the Medill Innocence Project, talks with journalism students at a reporting strategy session in Evanston, Ill. Illinois prosecutors are seeking the grades and e-mails of journalism students who claim an innocent man is behind bars for murder, saying Protess and his students aren't journalists and therefore aren't protected by reporters' privilege: An argument the school considers chilling. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 1978 killing of a security guard believe they have evidence that shows prosecutors put the wrong man behind bars. But in the quest to prove his innocence, they may have to defend themselves, too.

House health care overhaul faces Senate stone wall (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 10:29 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House about health care reform and Iraq's new electoral law Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - The glow from a health care triumph faded quickly for President Barack Obama on Sunday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere to go in the Senate.

Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up? (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 11:32 AM PST

This Oct. 22, 2009 photo shows Garnett Wilson, third from left, leading a group counseling session at the Fortune Society, a nonprofit support center in New York. Wilson served prison time for armed robbery in the 1980s and now at 61 has two decades of drug counseling under his belt. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation's readiness to turn the talk into reality.

Utah girl's pierced nose: US-Indian culture clash (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 05:52 PM PST

In this Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, photo, Professor Amardeep Singh sits in his office at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. (AP Photo Carolyn Kaster)AP - To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah's school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension.

Killings remain unsolved as sniper execution nears (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:27 AM PST

FILE -- In a March 9, 2004, file photo convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad stands as he is sentenced to death for the shooting of Dean Meyers at the Prince William County Circuit Court in Manassas, Va. Forty-eight-year-old John Allen Muhammad is set to die by lethal injection in a Virginia prison Nov. 10,2009, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Steve Helber/file)AP - It galled her to do it, but Sarah Dillon was desperate for answers, so she wrote letters to convicted snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo: If you murdered my son, please confess, she wrote.

FINRA bars California broker for insider trading (AP)

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 10:19 AM PST

Jason Goldfarb leaves Manhattan Federal Court after being arrested along with 13 others on insider trading charges November 5 in New York. Law enforcement officials in New York announced charges against 14 people in a widening probe into the largest ever alleged hedge-fund insider trading scheme on Wall Street.(AFP/Getty Images/Mario Tama)AP - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on Wednesday said it barred a former registered representative based in California after he took part in insider trading earlier this year.

Suspect identified in Seattle police killing (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 08:33 AM PST

AP - Police described a suspect in the shooting death of a Seattle policeman as a "lone domestic terrorist" and said he was also suspected of firebombing four police vehicles.

Murder case a glimpse into stresses of caretaking (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2009 11:35 PM PST

This 2005 photo released by the Yurkanin family shows Bobby Yurkanin, left, and his father Bob Yurkanin, in Short Hills, N.J. The younger man is accused of killing his father, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, on the beach outside their Fort Lauderdale, Fla., condo, and is awaiting trial. The case has shed light on the extreme stress undergone by caregivers of dementia patients. (AP Photo/Yurkanin Family)AP - The scenes seared into the minds of those who know Bobby Yurkanin differed only in place: Whether in the pool, around the dinner table or at the bowling alley, he was the 50-something man whose life had long before been handed over to the sickness of his parents. Always his father was by his side.

Beauty and tragedy in global network of war graves (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2009 09:01 PM PST

This Oct. 28, 2009 photo shows Hong Kong's Sai Wan War Cemetery where the World War II defenders of the then British colony are buried. It is part of a global patchwork of graveyards, carefully tended and managed from London, that constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million fighting men and women who died for Britain and its dominions in the world wars of the last century. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - It is the British empire of the dead.
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