Obama urges House to pass health care bill

Jennifer Haberkorn

President Obama came to Capitol Hill Saturday to urge Democrats to pass historic legislation to reform health care — and not get sidetracked by political ...

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• Fort Hood killings evoke bad memory

  5 AM Steve Miller THE WASHINGTON TIMES

  

  The town that has for years been newsworthy for its violence is again in crisis. Continue reading »

• Sunshine vitamin stirs new debate

  5 AM Ann Geracimos

  

  Remember all the advice we've heard about skin cancer - stay out of the sun, cover up, wear sunblock? Continue reading »

• Looking to 2010, GOP focuses on fiscal restraint

  5 AM Ralph Z. Hallow and Donald Lambro THE WASHINGTON TIMES

  

  Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele is working behind the scenes to unify state GOP leaders around an anti-spending, small-government theme for the 2010 midterm elections, seeking to shunt family values to second-tier status ... Continue reading »

• Israelis unsure of U.S. support

  5 AM Joshua Mitnick

  

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in the United States this week, but he might not see President Obama. Continue reading »

• Parents buying homes for kids at college

  5 AM Tim Devaney THE WASHINGTON TIMES

  

  A growing number of families across the nation are buying homes for their children to cope with the ever-climbing costs of a college education. Continue reading »

• Afghan ministry: NATO strike kills Afghan forces

  2 PM Deb Riechmann ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  U.S. and Afghan authorities investigated Saturday whether a botched NATO airstrike was to blame for the death of Afghan soldiers and police during a search for two American paratroopers missing in a Taliban-infested area of ... Continue reading »

• Obama praises those who ended Fort Hood violence

  9 AM Philip Elliott ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  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. Continue reading »

• Jobless rate surges past 10 percent

  5 AM Patrice Hill

  

  The nation's unemployment rate broke the 10 percent barrier last month as employers continued to slash jobs in an effort to lower their costs and stay in business. Continue reading »

• Furious scramble for health reform support

  5 AM Jennifer Haberkorn

  

  Still struggling to find enough votes to pass health reform, President Obama, White House officials and the House's Democratic leaders pressed furiously to overcome issues threatening to derail the landmark measure, agreeing under pressure to ... Continue reading »

• One dead, 5 injured in Fla. shooting

  5 AM Joseph Weber

  

  A Florida man returned Friday to the Orlando high-rise office complex where he once worked and allegedly shot six people, killing one and sparking a manhunt that ended hours later at his mother's apartment. Continue reading »

• One third of adults get H1N1 vaccine

  5 AM Mike Stobbe ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  Only about a third of adults who have tried to get a swine flu vaccine have been able to get it, according to a national poll released Friday. Continue reading »

• Muslims stunned by Fort Hood shooting

  5 AM Julia Duin

  

  Stunned Muslims were trying to understand Friday why a normally soft-spoken Army officer who served on his local mosque's charity committee allegedly fatally shot 13 people at the sprawling Fort Hood military base in Texas. Continue reading »

• Authorities raid La. ACORN offices

  2 PM Cain Burdeau ASSOCIATED PRESS

  

  State investigators are searching the New Orleans offices of the activist group ACORN in connection with embezzlement and tax fraud allegations. Continue reading »

• Obama extends economic aid

  12 PM Joseph Weber

  

  President Obama signed into law Friday legislation to provide additional unemployment and tax benefits to Americans still struggling through the country's worst recession since Word War II. Continue reading »

• House majority leader warns of health bill delays

  11 AM Jennifer Haberkorn

  

  Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Friday that Democrats are "very close" to nailing down enough votes to pass their health care reform bill and warned that the debate could go into Sunday, Monday or ... Continue reading »