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The Army major suspected of killing fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood confided to a local Muslim leader his doubts about fighting fellow Muslims. Full story »

Democratic leaders in the House say they are ready to bring healtlh care reform to a vote Saturday night, potentially giving President Obama the biggest victory of his young tenure. Full story »

A man fired from an engineering firm two years ago opened fire there Friday killing one person and wounding five, authorities said. When asked why, he responded, "Because they left me to rot."  Full story »

Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan seemed in a hurry to give his worldly belongings to a neighbor. "I'm not going to need them," he told the neighbor, Patricia Villa. He was going, he said, to Iraq or maybe to Afghanistan.  Full story »

The police officer who brought down a gunman after he went on a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base was on the way to have her car repaired when she responded to a police radio report of gunfire on the base, authorities said Friday. She is a fearless officer, colleagues say.  Full story »

A jury began deliberations in the Galveston capital murder trial of a man charged in the 2007 death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter. Full story »

Investigators did not know why the gunman targeted the engineering firm where he once worked. Full story »

Here is a collection of links to news sites and blogs that can lead still further into the shootings that killed at least 13 people at Fort Hood Army base in Texas Thursday.  Full story »

The officer believed to have been the shooter at Fort Hood Thursday had attracted the suspicions of federal agents and had fought his deployment to Iraq, fellow officers said. Full story »

UPDATED at 4:45 a.m. Friday: The suspected gunman at Fort Hood is alive and on a ventilator, but unconcious. Officials have not ruled out that he was acting on behalf of a radical group; they also don't rule out that some casualties might be victims of "friendly fire." Full story »

By a vote of 10-1, members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved a bill that aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions and boost investment in alternative energy technologies. Full story »

Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest increasingly doubt he was killed because of his government job and are pursuing the possibility he committed suicide, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.  Full story »

Thousands of mainly conservative opponents filled the lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday in a protest intended as a last-ditch effort to kill lawmakers' plans to vote on a Democratic health care bill Saturday.  Full story »

House Democratic leaders were struggling Thursday to contain uprisings on the hot-button issues of abortion and immigration that have left them little margin for error as they attempt to push through a massive health-care reform bill this weekend. Although confident of victory, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and other Democratic leaders were working to contain defections  Full story »

The child's mother apparently had handed her over to the baby sitter on Saturday, then reported her missing about 10 hours later. The sitter previously had expressed concern to state authorities about the child's welfare in her parents' care.  Full story »