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An Army psychologist from Woodbridge who had just moved to Fort Hood one day before Thursday's mass shooting and a physician's assistant from Maryland who volunteered to help soldiers returning from war were among those killed in the Texas tragedy.

To hear President Obama tell it, he's been busy creating jobs since taking office. The $787 billion stimulus package, he said last winter, would "save or create 3.5 million jobs." The White House ...

MANHATTAN, KAN. -- A curious debate has broken out among American environmental groups, as the Senate balkily starts to focus on the threat of climate change.

Tom Kenniff, attorney, Army JAG officer and Iraq war veteran who served in Tikrit, discusses what happened at Ft. Hood, crimes committed in the military, possible motives and what circumstances can lead to such occurrences.

He prayed every day at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, a devout Muslim who, despite asking to be discharged from the U.S. Army, was on the eve of his first deployment to war. Yesterday, authorities said Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, a 39-year-old Arlington-born psychiatrist, shot and killed ...

Democrats on Capitol Hill began a nervous debate Wednesday about the course President Obama has set for their party, with some questioning whether they should emphasize job creation over some of the more ambitious items on the president's agenda.

I'm writing this blog about all of the angst and anxiety I feel trying to reinvent myself, and the person who is responsible for me doing it hasn't even acknowledged my part with a lousy "good job" on the BlackBerry I have to carry 24-7?

For years, humans have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore.

Off-year elections can be notoriously unreliable as predictors of the future, but as a window on how the political landscape may have changed in the year since President Obama won the White House, Tuesday's Republican victories in Virginia and New Jersey delivered clear warnings for the Democrats.

One night inside a George Washington University fraternity, a sky-diving, weight-lifting, energy-drink-swilling group of brothers gathers around the pool table, boasting about how, no matter what their college, government and parents might say, they don't need any swine flu vaccine, thanks very m...

In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves.