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• Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle (AP)
• More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving (AP)
• Fort Hood suspect ordered held until court-martial (AP)
• Biden says Senate handed Obama a big victory (AP)
• 2 dead after shooting at Oregon intersection (AP)
• Police: Man fatally stabbed over NYC subway seat (AP)
• 5 Long Beach students arrested in alleged groping (AP)
• 3-alarm Atlantic City boardwalk fire under control (AP)
• A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US (AP)
• UC Santa Cruz protesters still occupy building (AP)
• Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients (AP)
• Jackson moonwalk glove sells for $350K in NYC (AP)
• Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk (AP)
• Hawaii anxiously watching year-end tuna supply (AP)
• EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells (AP)
• NC man gets life in prison for woman's fatal scare (AP)
• Atheist student groups flower on college campuses (AP)
• Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers (AP)
• Report finds wide disparities in gifted education (AP)
• Losing Winfrey would be big blow for Second City (AP)

Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:40 PM PST AP - Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.

More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:50 PM PST AP - The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.

Fort Hood suspect ordered held until court-martial (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:53 PM PST AP - The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at Fort Hood will be confined until his military trial, initially staying in a hospital where he is recovering from gunshot wounds, his attorney said Saturday.

Biden says Senate handed Obama a big victory (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 08:17 PM PST AP - Vice President Joe Biden told Iowa Democrats on Saturday that the Senate handed the president a big victory with its decision to move forward with debate on sweeping legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system.

2 dead after shooting at Oregon intersection (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:16 PM PST AP - A gunman fatally wounded a passenger in another vehicle at an Oregon intersection Saturday, setting off a police chase that ended when the suspect crashed and was killed by officers, authorities said.

Police: Man fatally stabbed over NYC subway seat (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 08:17 PM PST AP - A subway passenger was stabbed to death in front of horrified riders in a dispute with another man over a seat in the car early Saturday morning in midtown Manhattan, police said.

5 Long Beach students arrested in alleged groping (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:17 PM PST AP - Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school.

3-alarm Atlantic City boardwalk fire under control (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 08:48 PM PST AP - Officials say a three-alarm fire on the boardwalk in Atlantic City has been declared under control.

A bad month in Afghanistan rippled across the US (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 11:03 AM PST AP - Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.

UC Santa Cruz protesters still occupy building (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 08:36 PM PST AP - Dozens of protesters are occupying the main administrative building at University of California, Santa Cruz in the third straight day of protest over fee hikes and cuts to campus services.

Ex-Air Force nurse acquitted of killing patients (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:49 PM PST AP - A court-martial acquitted a former military nurse of murder Saturday after he was accused of giving lethal doses of painkillers to hasten the deaths of three terminally ill patients at the Air Force's largest hospital.

Jackson moonwalk glove sells for $350K in NYC (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:54 PM PST AP - The shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 was auctioned off for $350,000 — plus tax — on Saturday.

Baby can wait as expectant dad finishes spacewalk (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:54 PM PST AP - A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.

Hawaii anxiously watching year-end tuna supply (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 09:00 AM PST AP - On New Year's Eve each year, thousands line up at fish counters across Hawaii to buy blocks of raw tuna, hoping that eating it will bring good luck and prosperity in the new year. This year, the long tradition may get a little more difficult to observe.

EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 03:31 PM PST AP - Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.

NC man gets life in prison for woman's fatal scare (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 09:38 AM PST AP - A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina grandmother to death.

Atheist student groups flower on college campuses (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:12 PM PST AP - The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist."

Mental health cases tax police, emergency workers (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 10:30 AM PST AP - Police found him sitting on the floor of his old apartment near a bucket of urine, still dressed in his hospital gown.

Report finds wide disparities in gifted education (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 09:02 AM PST AP - When Liz Fitzgerald realized her son and daughter were forced to read books in math class while the other children caught up, she had them moved into gifted classes at their suburban Atlanta elementary school.

Losing Winfrey would be big blow for Second City (AP) Posted: 21 Nov 2009 09:38 AM PST AP - Step outside Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios and into the near west side neighborhood that's been home to her television talk show for two decades, and it's easy to get a sense of what she's meant to Chicago.

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