Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2753 Most Recommended U.S. en-us Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:31:58 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2753 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_baby_grace ap/20091107/us_baby_grace AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:55:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_baby_grace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.35aff6135c644276a2a24047e190b3a1.baby_grace_trial_txho102.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=jaUorX7HbB1kdE_DDN8tlQ--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="Royce Clyde Zeigler II, left, enters the 10th District Court in Galveston, Texas on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Zeigler is accused of killing Riley Ann Sawyers, whose unidentified body was dubbed 'Baby Grace' when found in a plastic container in Galveston Bay. (AP Photo/Jennifer Reynolds, Pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two years after the remains of a toddler who came to be known as "Baby Grace" were dumped in Galveston Bay, the child's stepfather was convicted of capital murder in her beating death.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_baby_grace"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.35aff6135c644276a2a24047e190b3a1.baby_grace_trial_txho102.jpg?x=91&y=130&q=85&sig=jaUorX7HbB1kdE_DDN8tlQ--" align="left" height="130" width="91" alt="photo" title="Royce Clyde Zeigler II, left, enters the 10th District Court in Galveston, Texas on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Zeigler is accused of killing Riley Ann Sawyers, whose unidentified body was dubbed 'Baby Grace' when found in a plastic container in Galveston Bay. (AP Photo/Jennifer Reynolds, Pool)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:47:14 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091108/capt.5764befe8c1743a48b60281214e818a8.addition_fort_hood_shooting_txtg109.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=aEQzkPXLSd2c8BVVCMu.JQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="U.S. Army Chief of Staff, Gen. George Casey attends a candlelight vigil at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, in honor of the fallen from the mass shootings on Fort Hood Army Post Thursday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0" /></a>AP - One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man's weapon away, handcuffing him and ending the nation's worst killing spree on a military base.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091108/capt.5764befe8c1743a48b60281214e818a8.addition_fort_hood_shooting_txtg109.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=aEQzkPXLSd2c8BVVCMu.JQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="U.S. Army Chief of Staff, Gen. George Casey attends a candlelight vigil at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, in honor of the fallen from the mass shootings on Fort Hood Army Post Thursday. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_immigrant_hate_crimes ap/20091108/us_immigrant_hate_crimes AP us Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:31:58 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_immigrant_hate_crimes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.83358f30baca4563b2b0a1b0eb01c8dc.hate_crime_stabbing_nyr101.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=BDZcoH65uUwCNElu_1To3A--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 28, 2009, Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead, N.Y. where he and six other Long Island teenagers are accused in the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero. Hausch pleaded guilty Thursday, Nov. 2, 2009 to gang assault and hate crime charges. The agreement requires him to testify against the six other defendants. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, Pool. File)" border="0" /></a>AP - The high school buddies who trolled the streets looking for Hispanics to attack called it "beaner hopping."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_immigrant_hate_crimes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.83358f30baca4563b2b0a1b0eb01c8dc.hate_crime_stabbing_nyr101.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=BDZcoH65uUwCNElu_1To3A--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this file photo of Jan. 28, 2009, Nicholas Hausch appears in court in Riverhead, N.Y. where he and six other Long Island teenagers are accused in the stabbing death of Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero. Hausch pleaded guilty Thursday, Nov. 2, 2009 to gang assault and hate crime charges. The agreement requires him to testify against the six other defendants. (AP Photo/Ed Betz, Pool. File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_uss_new_york ap/20091107/us_uss_new_york AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:31:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_uss_new_york"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a68bb9ed7dbe4c3cadb379a700bdf1f5.aptopix_uss_new_york_nydg101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=2w.hwI0kknDNCEgjxEnRCw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Port Authority Sgt. Christopher Bergman, center, a 9/11 first responder who lost friends in the attack, looks on as the USS New York, a Navy amphibious assault ship containing 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, gets formally commissioned in New York Saturday Nov. 7, 2009. The $1 billion warship was built near New Orleans by workers who survived Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/David Goldman)" border="0" /></a>AP - The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into Navy service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_uss_new_york"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a68bb9ed7dbe4c3cadb379a700bdf1f5.aptopix_uss_new_york_nydg101.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=2w.hwI0kknDNCEgjxEnRCw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Port Authority Sgt. Christopher Bergman, center, a 9/11 first responder who lost friends in the attack, looks on as the USS New York, a Navy amphibious assault ship containing 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, gets formally commissioned in New York Saturday Nov. 7, 2009. The $1 billion warship was built near New Orleans by workers who survived Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/David Goldman)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_cleveland_bodies_found ap/20091107/us_cleveland_bodies_found AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:48:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_cleveland_bodies_found"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.533f66cec5e7454f9c68eb3284cd1c65.aptopix_cleveland_bodies_found_cd102.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=.Bq4wGLRbWvEUzmxfhji7g--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="Anthony Sowell, right, stands behind public defender Kathleen DeMetz during his court appearance Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in Cleveland. Sowell, 50, has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder and held without bond after 10 bodies were discovered in his home over the past few days. Sowell was ordered held without bond. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them &mdash; most by strangulation &mdash; and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_cleveland_bodies_found"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091104/capt.533f66cec5e7454f9c68eb3284cd1c65.aptopix_cleveland_bodies_found_cd102.jpg?x=130&y=98&q=85&sig=.Bq4wGLRbWvEUzmxfhji7g--" align="left" height="98" width="130" alt="photo" title="Anthony Sowell, right, stands behind public defender Kathleen DeMetz during his court appearance Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, in Cleveland. Sowell, 50, has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder and held without bond after 10 bodies were discovered in his home over the past few days. Sowell was ordered held without bond. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usshootingcrimemilitarypoliticsobama afp/20091107/usshootingcrimemilitarypoliticsobama AFP politics Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:15:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usshootingcrimemilitarypoliticsobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257594546968-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=iruD_aS2wHfVQUv02XDprQ--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="Army Command Sergeant Major Terrence Murphy sheds tears during a vigil for those killed and wounded in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. US President Barack Obama has sought to reassure US service men and women in the wake of the deadly shooting rampage, saying the tragedy had also displayed "the best of America."(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US President Barack Obama on Saturday sought to reassure the US public in the wake of a deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, saying the response to the tragedy displayed "the best of America."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usshootingcrimemilitarypoliticsobama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257594546968-1-0.jpg?x=130&y=92&q=85&sig=iruD_aS2wHfVQUv02XDprQ--" align="left" height="92" width="130" alt="photo" title="Army Command Sergeant Major Terrence Murphy sheds tears during a vigil for those killed and wounded in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. US President Barack Obama has sought to reassure US service men and women in the wake of the deadly shooting rampage, saying the tragedy had also displayed "the best of America."(AFP/Getty Images/Joe Raedle)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usbusinesseconomyemployment afp/20091107/usbusinesseconomyemployment AFP politics Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:11:39 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usbusinesseconomyemployment"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257628176543-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=lXeCJO8_mpWKfUMKBuRAaw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="US President Barack Obama speaks to the press at the White House in Washington, DC. With unemployment fast becoming one of Obama's biggest domestic challenges, focus is shifting from "too-big-to-fail" manufacturing and financial giants to struggling small businesses.(AFP/Jim Watson)" border="0" /></a>AFP - With unemployment fast becoming one of US President Barack Obama's biggest domestic challenges, focus is shifting from "too-big-to-fail" manufacturing and financial giants to struggling small businesses.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usbusinesseconomyemployment"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257628176543-1-0.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=lXeCJO8_mpWKfUMKBuRAaw--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="US President Barack Obama speaks to the press at the White House in Washington, DC. With unemployment fast becoming one of Obama's biggest domestic challenges, focus is shifting from "too-big-to-fail" manufacturing and financial giants to struggling small businesses.(AFP/Jim Watson)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_holiday ap/20091107/us_obama_holiday AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:52:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_holiday"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.07feb3e0ac1f41d2a1222cb91f024e5a.obama_holiday_aldm603.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=sv7fIal821KNS_F69OYABg--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="High school student Matt Morgan displays his Obama Day holiday tee shirt as he attends a rally at the Marion Military Institute in Marion, Ala., Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed Monday as an official holiday celebrating the election of the nation's first black president, Barack Obama. It's one of Alabama's poorest counties, but it's sparing little during five days of festivities. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)" border="0" /></a>AP - The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday."</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_holiday"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.07feb3e0ac1f41d2a1222cb91f024e5a.obama_holiday_aldm603.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=sv7fIal821KNS_F69OYABg--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="High school student Matt Morgan displays his Obama Day holiday tee shirt as he attends a rally at the Marion Military Institute in Marion, Ala., Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. The rural, mostly black county has proclaimed Monday as an official holiday celebrating the election of the nation's first black president, Barack Obama. It's one of Alabama's poorest counties, but it's sparing little during five days of festivities. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obama_threat_investigation ap/20091107/us_obama_threat_investigation AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:49:14 GMT AP - A man who threatened to kill Barack Obama last summer just before the Democratic National Convention in Denver has pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usshootingcrimemilitary afp/20091107/usshootingcrimemilitary AFP topstories Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:34:02 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usshootingcrimemilitary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257635726310-8-0.jpg?x=73&y=130&q=85&sig=iKJKIOFW9IxaEh0bfnjLTg--" align="left" height="130" width="73" alt="US Army Specialist Ryn Hill (R) and his daughter Emma, 3, place flowers and a candle for victims of the shooting at Fort Hood, at the main gate to Fort Hood. Investigators on Saturday worked to uncover the motives of a Muslim US army doctor suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others in a shooting rampage at a US military base.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US President Barack Obama will attend a memorial service here this week to honor victims of the shooting rampage on the military base in which 13 people died, the White House said Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usshootingcrimemilitary"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257635726310-8-0.jpg?x=73&y=130&q=85&sig=iKJKIOFW9IxaEh0bfnjLTg--" align="left" height="130" width="73" alt="photo" title="US Army Specialist Ryn Hill (R) and his daughter Emma, 3, place flowers and a candle for victims of the shooting at Fort Hood, at the main gate to Fort Hood. Investigators on Saturday worked to uncover the motives of a Muslim US army doctor suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others in a shooting rampage at a US military base.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes ap/20091108/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes AP us Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:17:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.df08e76e15884f3b8e76165f32ae4a5f.fort_hood_victim_ny115.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=pGlZtbAph3aneuQ999yz4w--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="In this combo, victims killed during a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on Nov. 5, 2009 are shown. From top left, Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Okla., Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis., Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, Michael Grant Cahill, 62, of Cameron, Texas, Pfc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn., Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, 32, of Evans, Ga. From bottom left, Pfc. Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook, Ill., Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis., Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago, Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, of Williston, N.D., and Major L. Eduardo Caraveo, 52, of Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo)" border="0" /></a>AP - The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a father of three with ties to Laos whose family had a history of military service, a civilian who had returned to work a week after suffering a heart attack, and a psychiatric nurse who arrived at Fort Hood a day before the shooting. Here is a look at some of the victims.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.df08e76e15884f3b8e76165f32ae4a5f.fort_hood_victim_ny115.jpg?x=130&y=72&q=85&sig=pGlZtbAph3aneuQ999yz4w--" align="left" height="72" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this combo, victims killed during a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on Nov. 5, 2009 are shown. From top left, Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Okla., Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis., Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, Michael Grant Cahill, 62, of Cameron, Texas, Pfc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn., Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow, 32, of Evans, Ga. From bottom left, Pfc. Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook, Ill., Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis., Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago, Capt. John Gaffaney, 56, of Williston, N.D., and Major L. Eduardo Caraveo, 52, of Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/fl_tropical_storm_ida ap/20091107/fl_tropical_storm_ida AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:00:54 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/fl_tropical_storm_ida"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.176b947eb8574c45a650fbfc9c89017e.noaa_clouds_ny2.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=g4gG4Wp5jOTHEYGp6G8ojg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 at 3:45 a.m. EST shows clear skies over much of the East as a high pressure system continues to dominate the area, bringing dry conditions. A mass of clouds east of the Yucatan Peninsula is associated with Tropical Depression Ida. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)" border="0" /></a>AP - Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph (72 kph), as it swirls in the Caribbean on a track that could bring it to the U.S. Gulf Coast next week.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/fl_tropical_storm_ida"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.176b947eb8574c45a650fbfc9c89017e.noaa_clouds_ny2.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=g4gG4Wp5jOTHEYGp6G8ojg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 at 3:45 a.m. EST shows clear skies over much of the East as a high pressure system continues to dominate the area, bringing dry conditions. A mass of clouds east of the Yucatan Peninsula is associated with Tropical Depression Ida. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_flight93_memorial ap/20091107/us_flight93_memorial AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:28:54 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_flight93_memorial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d66a72498fcd49109e6a6d47fbfeef95.flight_93_memorial_pagp101.jpg?x=118&y=130&q=85&sig=LIfjb2RaUza.oxLu4SIcrA--" align="left" height="130" width="118" alt="Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, right rear, and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, left rear, lead the ground breaking for the Flight 93 National Memorial Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Shanksville, Pa. From foreground left, are Campbell Peterson, and Peyton Peterson, grandsons of Flight 93 passengers Donald Peterson and Jean Hoadley Peterson, and Sarah Wainio, sister of Flight 93 passenger Honor Elizabeth Wainio. Plans are for the memorial to be dedicated on Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)" border="0" /></a>AP - With the words "Let's roll" &mdash; the command issued by United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to lead the passenger revolt &mdash; U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and 39 victims' relatives and dignitaries turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday for a permanent national memorial.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_flight93_memorial"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d66a72498fcd49109e6a6d47fbfeef95.flight_93_memorial_pagp101.jpg?x=118&y=130&q=85&sig=LIfjb2RaUza.oxLu4SIcrA--" align="left" height="130" width="118" alt="photo" title="Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, right rear, and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, left rear, lead the ground breaking for the Flight 93 National Memorial Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Shanksville, Pa. From foreground left, are Campbell Peterson, and Peyton Peterson, grandsons of Flight 93 passengers Donald Peterson and Jean Hoadley Peterson, and Sarah Wainio, sister of Flight 93 passenger Honor Elizabeth Wainio. Plans are for the memorial to be dedicated on Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usshootingcrimemilitarylead afp/20091107/usshootingcrimemilitarylead AFP topstories Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:38:11 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usshootingcrimemilitarylead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257635726310-8-0.jpg?x=73&y=130&q=85&sig=iKJKIOFW9IxaEh0bfnjLTg--" align="left" height="130" width="73" alt="US Army Specialist Ryn Hill (R) and his daughter Emma, 3, place flowers and a candle for victims of the shooting at Fort Hood, at the main gate to Fort Hood. Investigators on Saturday worked to uncover the motives of a Muslim US army doctor suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others in a shooting rampage at a US military base.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US President Barack Obama led his nation in mourning on Saturday as shocked Americans struggled to understand why a Muslim army doctor killed 13 in a massacre at a US military base.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usshootingcrimemilitarylead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20091107/capt.photo_1257635726310-8-0.jpg?x=73&y=130&q=85&sig=iKJKIOFW9IxaEh0bfnjLTg--" align="left" height="130" width="73" alt="photo" title="US Army Specialist Ryn Hill (R) and his daughter Emma, 3, place flowers and a candle for victims of the shooting at Fort Hood, at the main gate to Fort Hood. Investigators on Saturday worked to uncover the motives of a Muslim US army doctor suspected of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others in a shooting rampage at a US military base.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_swine_flu_alaska_village ap/20091107/us_swine_flu_alaska_village AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:05:19 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_swine_flu_alaska_village"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a5187d0129704f5596b7cde38c6deabd.swine_flu_alaska_village_akrd101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=44qOsqxplqM4cPAyM.3f5Q--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="This October 2002 picture provided by Dr. David Head of the Norton Sound Health Corporation shows the village of Diomede on Little Diomede Island in extreme western Alaska. So many of the 130 residents of the isolated community have been stricken with flu-like symptoms that the Alaska Army National Guard stepped in with a Black Hawk helicopter to transport a medical team there from Nome 135 miles away. The medics arrived Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 to administer doses of swine flu vaccine and deliver enough medicine to treat every resident if necessary. (AP Photo/Norton Sound Health Corporation, David Head)" border="0" /></a>AP - Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island &mdash; prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_swine_flu_alaska_village"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.a5187d0129704f5596b7cde38c6deabd.swine_flu_alaska_village_akrd101.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=44qOsqxplqM4cPAyM.3f5Q--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="This October 2002 picture provided by Dr. David Head of the Norton Sound Health Corporation shows the village of Diomede on Little Diomede Island in extreme western Alaska. So many of the 130 residents of the isolated community have been stricken with flu-like symptoms that the Alaska Army National Guard stepped in with a Black Hawk helicopter to transport a medical team there from Nome 135 miles away. The medics arrived Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009 to administer doses of swine flu vaccine and deliver enough medicine to treat every resident if necessary. (AP Photo/Norton Sound Health Corporation, David Head)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_mayor_on_trial ap/20091107/us_mayor_on_trial AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:46:58 GMT AP - The accusations that Mayor Sheila Dixon used holiday gift cards for the needy during personal shopping sprees may sound like a minor embarrassment at worst, a small-time case of a politician enjoying the perks of power. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_muslims_in_the_military ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_muslims_in_the_military AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:20:22 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_muslims_in_the_military"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.f3fb4fb687a842d1a2d069fc27f7edb8.islam_us_military_gfx903.jpg?x=50&y=130&q=85&sig=10vZDRdpqWj0cTeA9wefqQ--" align="left" height="130" width="50" alt="Graphic shows the number of active duty U.S. soldiers of the Islam faith as of Aug. 2009; includes other faiths and Islam faith by U.S. military branch" border="0" /></a>AP - Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's family says he confided in them that he felt harassed as a Muslim in the U.S. military &mdash; and wasn't treated as an American and soldier should be.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_muslims_in_the_military"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.f3fb4fb687a842d1a2d069fc27f7edb8.islam_us_military_gfx903.jpg?x=50&y=130&q=85&sig=10vZDRdpqWj0cTeA9wefqQ--" align="left" height="130" width="50" alt="photo" title="Graphic shows the number of active duty U.S. soldiers of the Islam faith as of Aug. 2009; includes other faiths and Islam faith by U.S. military branch" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_suspect_s_family ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_suspect_s_family AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:53:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_suspect_s_family"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.7a315ccc4e384d918936386a93b3c129.fort_hood_shooting_ny251.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=.i57pCLZqWvEA9iiBXDdhQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="This 2000 picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when was a medical student at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)" border="0" /></a>AP - A brother of the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood says the Army psychiatrist is peaceful person &mdash; and hopes he will be treated fairly by the legal system.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_suspect_s_family"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.7a315ccc4e384d918936386a93b3c129.fort_hood_shooting_ny251.jpg?x=86&y=130&q=85&sig=.i57pCLZqWvEA9iiBXDdhQ--" align="left" height="130" width="86" alt="photo" title="This 2000 picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when was a medical student at the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_shooting_perry ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_shooting_perry AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:49:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_shooting_perry"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.5bd6c854381f44c69c49f54bf1b755f5.fort_hood_shooting_perry__txtg102.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=SK.N5eWWuXAxkpn_qXauRw--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Rep. Sid Miller, R-Stephenville, left, looks on as Texas Gov. Rick Perry, at podium, pauses during his statement to the media after visiting with victims from Thursday's mass shooting at Fort Hood, in front of Scott & White hospital, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, in Temple, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0" /></a>AP - Texas governor Rick Perry has visited with wounded victims from the Fort Hood shooting.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_fort_hood_shooting_perry"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.5bd6c854381f44c69c49f54bf1b755f5.fort_hood_shooting_perry__txtg102.jpg?x=130&y=94&q=85&sig=SK.N5eWWuXAxkpn_qXauRw--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="photo" title="Rep. Sid Miller, R-Stephenville, left, looks on as Texas Gov. Rick Perry, at podium, pauses during his statement to the media after visiting with victims from Thursday's mass shooting at Fort Hood, in front of Scott & White hospital, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, in Temple, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/highestratedus/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sept11_memorial ap/20091107/us_sept11_memorial AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:22:15 GMT AP - A memorial to honor a Sept. 11 victim from a small northwestern Connecticut town has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from his father's insistence it say his son was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."