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The nearly $1 trillion Senate health care bill is facing a crucial showdown.

A military magistrate has ruled that the Army psychiatrist charged in one of the worst mass shootings on a U.S. military base will be held until trial.

A Fort Benning spokesman says Army officials are investigating whether a suspicious note and package found at the west Georgia post is a viable threat.

Police say a bank robbery suspect in Ohio may have eaten evidence when he gobbled a piece of paper while handcuffed and lying across the hood of a police cruiser.

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.

Atlantis' astronauts have completed their spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

The AAA auto club says a few more Americans will be traveling away from home for Thanksgiving this year, though most people are making their holiday treks by car.

A new report says gifted children are being ignored in the U.S., as most federal education funding goes to help struggling students learn the basics.

Police and emergency responders around the nation have long struggled to deal with people who have mental illness. Now some say the situation is getting worse.

Students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, aren't ceding any ground in their protests against fee hikes and budget cuts after 41 demonstrators were arrested at UC Berkeley.