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McCain calls Fort Hood shooting terrorism, says signs missed

U.S. Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican and former presidential candidate, called last week's shooting at Fort Hood "an act of terror" during a speech at the University of Louisville Wednesday morning. He called for swift disclosure of questionable behavior at military bases. "We ought to make sure that political correctness never impedes national security," he said. » read more

D.C. sniper's execution leaves a Texas family without closure

Sarah Dillon spent part of Tuesday praying at her son's gravesite, asking for a last-minute miracle. Her desire: that the killing of her oldest son in 2002 would somehow be solved before convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed in Virginia. It didn't happen. Authorities have said her son may have been among more than a dozen people whom Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed during a 2002 spree in the Washington, D.C., area and as many as nine other states, including Texas. » read more

Poll: Obama's health care overhaul isn't selling in South

Barack Obama's push to revamp the nation's health care system is getting the cold shoulder from Southerners, according to a new poll by Winthrop University. But the president remains well-liked in the region, with solid majorities saying he is warm and friendly, trustworthy and concerned about people like those polled in South Carolina and 10 other Southern states. » read more

President Obama honors fallen troops at Fort Hood

President Barack Obama, on his first presidential visit to Fort Hood, the day before Veterans Day, memorialized 13 soldiers on Tuesday, all of them killed, authorities believe, by a fellow soldier Thursday afternoon. » read more

Politics

• · Tea Party protesters gather in South Carolina resort town
• · Alaska Legislature's plan for new offices called 'monument to legislative vanity'
• · Health care, climate change votes could dog Blue Dog

World

• · N.J. man alleges FBI torture threat in Kenyan jail
• · Now that parliament approved elections, Iraqis are ambivalent
• · Pakistani Islamists attack civilians for 3rd day, killing 24

Nation

• · N.C. school district halts cash-for-grades fundraiser
• · Miami Chief Timoney to step down as new mayor takes over
• · D.C. sniper's execution leaves a Texas family without closure

Washington

• · Dodd upsets banks with plan for a single bank overseer
• · U.N. leader urges Senate to speed up climate effort
• · Gulf Coast veterans displaced by Katrina anxious to go home