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Atlantis' astronauts are taking another spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

Democratic leaders remain optimistic that today's critical health care vote in the Senate will come out in their favor.

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.

A winter storm with winds gusting to more than 80 mph is expected to leave as much as a foot of snow to the northern Nevada mountains.

The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights.

An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room on Saturday.

Prosecutors say they'll drop manslaughter charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide contractors charged in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting.

An attorney for a condemned killer says Ohio's new lethal-injection plan is so untested it would amount to human experimentation if used for the first time next month.

The ringleader of a group of men convicted of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices has been sentenced to 13½ years in prison.

In a sharp improvement, more than half of U.S. states added jobs in October, though economists said many of the gains likely occurred in temporary employment.