President Obama, extending condolences to Fort Hood, Texas, reminded Americans that people of “every race, faith and station” serve in the military — an oblique attempt to prevent a backlash against Muslims.

There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed; 77 of them are in Florida.

Those who treat soldiers’ psychological wounds say this week’s rampage highlights the strains of their profession.

Barbara Mulas, 49, is chef and part-owner of Sidebar, a “gastropub,” as she describes it, in the Lake Merritt section of Oakland

In Hebrew the word for Julie Seltzer’s arcane profession is soferet; she’s a scribe, a Hebrew calligrapher who writes sacred texts on parchment.

Construction of a permanent memorial is under way at the crash site in Pennsylvania of United Airlines Flight 93.

As a high-priority bill for Congressional leaders and President Obama, the legislation has become a vehicle for many other initiatives large and small.

Gen. Casimir Pulaski finally became an American citizen, 230 years after he died fighting in the Revolutionary War.

Heavier Americans are lobbying legislators and trying to move public opinion to recognize their point of view: that thin does not necessarily equal fit, and that people can be healthy at any size.

Debate in the House is under way after President Obama made a rare appearance on Capitol Hill and Democrats surmounted a key procedural hurdle to passage of a health care bill.

The bodies of the 13 victims were taken to Dover, Del., as federal investigators continued to figure out how and why this deadly act could have occurred on an Army base in the United States.

Some of the virulent culture that gave rise to the attack itself is defiantly asserting itself, despite efforts to contain it.

A piece of the stimulus program Congress passed earlier this year is helping the mayor burnish his credentials with the business community.

Years after the frontier town of Unalaska picked itself up off the barroom floor, residents fear a shelter would once again invite the wrong kinds of neighbors.

Jason Rodriguez, who is accused of shooting six people, one fatally, in Orlando on Friday, “has been declining in mental health,” his lawyer said.

The killings at Fort Hood are a reminder of our failure to deal with the psychological wounds of war.

Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. is proposing that education spending be cut and that Colorado charge sales tax on candy and soft drinks as well as online sales.

Passenger and cargo travel up and down a 60,000-mile cable is still decades in the future.

Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also produce a new waste stream.

The number of unemployed rose to 15.7 million in October, as 190,000 nonfarm jobs were lost, the government said, and economists do not expect relief until next year.