Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/718 us U.S. News en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:11:38 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/718 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_shooting AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:43:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.2c983a9de1d447e2899862d7b336d653.fort_hood_shooting_txps103.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=P_nvzMFrwkpCX6puhi771Q--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Flowers are left outside the entrance of Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers during a rampage that left 13 people dead and 30 injured on Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0" /></a>AP - There was the classroom presentation that justified suicide bombings. Comments to colleagues about a climate of persecution faced by Muslims in the military. Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.2c983a9de1d447e2899862d7b336d653.fort_hood_shooting_txps103.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=P_nvzMFrwkpCX6puhi771Q--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="Flowers are left outside the entrance of Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers during a rampage that left 13 people dead and 30 injured on Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul ap/20091107/us_health_care_overhaul AP business Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:23:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.8a96dfa833584ebbb9c19ee6fb45bd19.health_care_overhaul_obama_dcab107.jpg?x=80&y=130&q=85&sig=i9_Z75Y7BQWUeYUYxnlSQQ--" align="left" height="130" width="80" alt="President Barack Obama walks to the Cannon Caucus Room with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to meet with House Democrats about health care on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)" border="0" /></a>AP - President Barack Obama summoned Democrats to "answer the call of history" Saturday as the House pushed toward a vote on a landmark health care bill holding out the promise of coverage for tens of millions who lack it.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_overhaul"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.8a96dfa833584ebbb9c19ee6fb45bd19.health_care_overhaul_obama_dcab107.jpg?x=80&y=130&q=85&sig=i9_Z75Y7BQWUeYUYxnlSQQ--" align="left" height="130" width="80" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama walks to the Cannon Caucus Room with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to meet with House Democrats about health care on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:48:17 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.1ee35f13efbd482eb94436fd3674c74a.fort_hood_shooting_txmo101.jpg?x=130&y=118&q=85&sig=qe7Vdv.N5wpdGNcNWk563g--" align="left" height="118" width="130" alt="Jeremiah Thomas, of Waco, Texas, rubs his face while holding a sign outside the front gate of the Army base at Fort Hood, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/LM Otero)" 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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting_officers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.1ee35f13efbd482eb94436fd3674c74a.fort_hood_shooting_txmo101.jpg?x=130&y=118&q=85&sig=qe7Vdv.N5wpdGNcNWk563g--" align="left" height="118" width="130" alt="photo" title="Jeremiah Thomas, of Waco, Texas, rubs his face while holding a sign outside the front gate of the Army base at Fort Hood, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/LM Otero)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_cleveland_bodies_found ap/20091107/us_cleveland_bodies_found AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:25:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes ap/20091107/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:57:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.79a2dad4545a47e9bc9c09f151239cdc.fort_hood_killings_wishe201.jpg?x=117&y=130&q=85&sig=lSTLkjvvln5nXNsOHz6xUw--" align="left" height="130" width="117" alt="In this undated family photo, Amy Krueger is shown. Amy Krueger was one of 13 people killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Sheboygan Press)" border="0" /></a>AP - The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Here is a look at some of the victims.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_victim_vignettes"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.79a2dad4545a47e9bc9c09f151239cdc.fort_hood_killings_wishe201.jpg?x=117&y=130&q=85&sig=lSTLkjvvln5nXNsOHz6xUw--" align="left" height="130" width="117" alt="photo" title="In this undated family photo, Amy Krueger is shown. Amy Krueger was one of 13 people killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Family Photo via Sheboygan Press)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_orlando_office_shooting ap/20091107/us_orlando_office_shooting AP business Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:58:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_orlando_office_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.573b4d1741fc4426819e8d350323d284.orlando_office_shooting_florl105.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=YETE3odlz8gFqnT1tqLCIQ--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="Jason Rodriguez makes his first appearance before Circuit Judge Walter Komanski at the Orange County Jail, on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Orlando, Fla. The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is 'very mentally ill' and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday. Rodriguez, 40, was ordered held without bail at the Orange County Jail, where he is under suicide watch after Friday's shooting. (AP Photo/Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda, Pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - His marriage long ago went sour, his home taken in foreclosure, his job lost to incompetence, his finances sunk in bankruptcy. Everything Jason Rodriguez sought ended in failure. Except his alleged plot to kill.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_orlando_office_shooting"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.573b4d1741fc4426819e8d350323d284.orlando_office_shooting_florl105.jpg?x=92&y=130&q=85&sig=YETE3odlz8gFqnT1tqLCIQ--" align="left" height="130" width="92" alt="photo" title="Jason Rodriguez makes his first appearance before Circuit Judge Walter Komanski at the Orange County Jail, on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009 in Orlando, Fla. The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is 'very mentally ill' and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday. Rodriguez, 40, was ordered held without bail at the Orange County Jail, where he is under suicide watch after Friday's shooting. (AP Photo/Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda, Pool)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_sp_ot/us_yankees_parade_documents ap/20091107/us_yankees_parade_documents AP sports Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:03:28 GMT AP - New York City office workers who got carried away during the Yankees victory parade Friday apparently began tossing files and documents out the window when they couldn't get their hands on confetti. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_comparing_the_bills ap/20091107/us_health_care_comparing_the_bills AP business Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:54:47 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_comparing_the_bills"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.43c5d1ba4b2b4f37974c8598ad41c6bd.health_care_overhaul_dcab118.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=Xye996Dkz027VMLZbLOInw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., left, and Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, pick up a copy of the house health care bill HB-3962 after they took it up the steps to the House after a rally against the health care bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)" border="0" /></a>AP - Here is a comparison of the three health care bills before Congress, including one by House Democrats and an alternative by House Republicans.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_comparing_the_bills"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.43c5d1ba4b2b4f37974c8598ad41c6bd.health_care_overhaul_dcab118.jpg?x=130&y=91&q=85&sig=Xye996Dkz027VMLZbLOInw--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="photo" title="Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., left, and Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, pick up a copy of the house health care bill HB-3962 after they took it up the steps to the House after a rally against the health care bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_sniper_unanswered_questions ap/20091107/us_sniper_unanswered_questions AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:48:48 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_sniper_unanswered_questions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.9cd876f6eb5b4d33b81fee8824c85d79.sniper_shootings_witnesses_ny108.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=91QJUELLNWLZJhY317nDfA--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="FILE -- In a March 9, 2004, file photo convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad stands as he is sentenced to death for the shooting of Dean Meyers at the Prince William County Circuit Court in Manassas, Va. Forty-eight-year-old John Allen Muhammad is set to die by lethal injection in a Virginia prison Nov. 10,2009, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Steve Helber/file)" border="0" /></a>AP - It galled her to do it, but Sarah Dillon was desperate for answers, so she wrote letters to convicted snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo: If you murdered my son, please confess, she wrote.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_sniper_unanswered_questions"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091105/capt.9cd876f6eb5b4d33b81fee8824c85d79.sniper_shootings_witnesses_ny108.jpg?x=90&y=130&q=85&sig=91QJUELLNWLZJhY317nDfA--" align="left" height="130" width="90" alt="photo" title="FILE -- In a March 9, 2004, file photo convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad stands as he is sentenced to death for the shooting of Dean Meyers at the Prince William County Circuit Court in Manassas, Va. Forty-eight-year-old John Allen Muhammad is set to die by lethal injection in a Virginia prison Nov. 10,2009, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation's capital. (AP Photo/Steve Helber/file)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_philadelphia_transit_strike ap/20091107/us_philadelphia_transit_strike AP business Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:51:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_philadelphia_transit_strike"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.e3d1c7910e2d475ba32a109a0ea4caf7.philadelphia_transit_strike_pamr201.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=1Oo1T.a1M2xR9AaX1rlGIg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Transport workers are seen on strike in Philadelphia, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Philadelphia transit system's largest union went on strike early Tuesday, bringing the city's bus, subway and trolley operations to a halt.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)" border="0" /></a>AP - A national spokesman for the Philadelphia transit system's largest union says reports of a tentative agreement were "premature" and the negotiations aimed at ending a five-day strike continue.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_bi_ge/us_philadelphia_transit_strike"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.e3d1c7910e2d475ba32a109a0ea4caf7.philadelphia_transit_strike_pamr201.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=1Oo1T.a1M2xR9AaX1rlGIg--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="Transport workers are seen on strike in Philadelphia, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Philadelphia transit system's largest union went on strike early Tuesday, bringing the city's bus, subway and trolley operations to a halt.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_dead_sea_scrolls ap/20091107/us_dead_sea_scrolls AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:20:48 GMT AP - Students and university officials started getting e-mails last year in which a prominent Judaic studies scholar seemed to make a startling confession: He had committed plagiarism. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_en_ot/us_celebrity_burglaries_vegas ap/20091107/us_celebrity_burglaries_vegas AP entertainment Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:10:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_en_ot/us_celebrity_burglaries_vegas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d55febb66e7c4cb0988532a027075b34.celebrity_burglaries_ny109.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=M0iTIjksnq9dcx.Fty1ybA--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="File - This undated file photo released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows Nicholas Frank Prugo, 18, who has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into the homes of Lindsey Lohan and actress Audrina Patridge. According to a Las Vegas police search warrant obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 Prugo told Los Angeles police detectives that Rachel Jungeon Lee was the 'driving force' behind the break-ins. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - A 19-year-old woman was the driving force behind a youthful burglary ring that preyed on Hollywood's rich and famous, often brazenly walking into unlocked homes to make off with cash, jewels and family heirlooms, authorities said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_en_ot/us_celebrity_burglaries_vegas"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.d55febb66e7c4cb0988532a027075b34.celebrity_burglaries_ny109.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=M0iTIjksnq9dcx.Fty1ybA--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="photo" title="File - This undated file photo released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department shows Nicholas Frank Prugo, 18, who has been arrested on suspicion of breaking into the homes of Lindsey Lohan and actress Audrina Patridge. According to a Las Vegas police search warrant obtained by The Associated Press on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 Prugo told Los Angeles police detectives that Rachel Jungeon Lee was the 'driving force' behind the break-ins. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/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/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather ap/20091107/tropical_weather AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:03:05 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.8b6fbd3a4390425ab627eb8eaae1025c.tropical_weather_gfx904.jpg?x=58&y=130&q=85&sig=CHvcYnJpu.yg4hnHZT8cLA--" align="left" height="130" width="58" alt="Graphic tracks the projected path of Tropical Storm Ida" border="0" /></a>AP - Tropical storm warnings were issued Saturday for parts of Mexico and Cuba as Ida rapidly gained strength over Caribbean waters, and the storm could start affecting the U.S. Gulf Coast by Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091107/capt.8b6fbd3a4390425ab627eb8eaae1025c.tropical_weather_gfx904.jpg?x=58&y=130&q=85&sig=CHvcYnJpu.yg4hnHZT8cLA--" align="left" height="130" width="58" alt="photo" title="Graphic tracks the projected path of Tropical Storm Ida" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/world_briefly ap/20091107/world_briefly AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:11:38 GMT AP - Obama tells Democrats to answer the call of history as they move toward health care vote