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Homeless rate steady in latest government estimate
A vigorous effort to house the homeless has been countered somewhat by a sluggish economy. The federal government and local communities have greatly ...
Egypt's military returns to the political fray
Egypt's powerful military, sidelined last summer by the newly elected Islamist president, edged back Saturday into a political fray boiling over with ...
Same-sex weddings in Wash. to begin on Sunday
Two retired military women who fought for the rights of gays in the military were among the hundreds of couples who received their marriage licenses ...
New inflation gauge would cut benefits, hike taxes
Tweaking the way the government measures inflation sounds like an obscure method to help reduce budget deficits, but over time it would lead to ...
Veterans' gun rights sticky issue in defense bill
Should veterans deemed too mentally incompetent to handle their own financial affairs be prevented from buying a gun? The issue, for a time last week, ...
Veterans sue railroad over fatal crash in Texas
Two Army veterans and their wives on Wednesday sued the railroad company whose train hit a truck carrying veterans and their spouses during a parade ...
9 more Iraq, Afghan war veterans joining Congress
As Tammy Duckworth sees it, her path to Congress began when she awoke in the fall of 2004 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She was missing both of ...
Kan. honor flights halted after money goes missing
As many as 100 World War II veterans missed their chance to travel to Washington to see their war's memorial after about $110,000 disappeared from a ...
Army veteran drove float in Texas parade crash
The driver of a parade float filled with wounded veterans and their spouses that was struck by a freight train in West Texas is an Army veteran ...
Attorney: Driver in Texas parade crash 'in shock'
A 50-year-old Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan was driving a parade float that investigators say edged across a railroad crossing in ...
New push for most in US to get at least 1 HIV test
There's a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks. Americans ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test at least once ...
Parade where vets killed used route for 3 years
Organizers of a parade in West Texas in which four U.S. military veterans were killed when a train plowed into a truck had been using the same route ...
Officials: Vets' float crossed track after signals
A parade float filled with wounded veterans that was struck by a freight train had crossed onto the railroad tracks after warning signals were going ...
Former veterans pay respect to victims in Bosnia
Veterans from opposite sides of the brutal Balkan wars of the 1990s paid their respects Saturday to the victims of the worst massacre in Europe since ...
Texas parade honoring war heroes ends in tragedy
Cheered on by a flag-waving crowd, a parade float filled with wounded veterans and their spouses was inching across a railroad track when the crossing ...
Veterans killed in train crash were war heroes
The four veterans killed when a freight train barreled into the parade float they were riding on were decorated military men who served on the front ...
West Texas rail crossing had 10 previous accidents
There were 10 previous collisions at the West Texas railroad crossing where a train slammed into a parade float carrying wounded veterans and their ...
Joy in Croatia as UN overturns 2 key convictions
Chanting "Victory! Victory!," waving red-and-white checkered flags and dancing in the streets, tens of thousands of jubilant supporters gave two ...
4 dead, 17 hurt when train hits Texas vets parade
A freight train slammed into a parade float carrying wounded veterans on Thursday, killing four people and injuring 17 others as the float tried to ...
Nation pays tribute to sacrifices of veterans
From sea to shining sea, the nation paid tribute to its members of the armed services Sunday, both with somber traditions such as a Virginia ...
Major hurdles remain to end veteran homelessness
Arthur Lute's arduous journey from his days as a U.S. Marine to his nights sleeping on the streets illustrates the challenge for the Obama ...
VETERANS DAY GALLERY: Images of US troops at war
There are very few bonds in life stronger than among those who have served in the Armed Forces — soldiers, sailors and others who volunteered out of ...
Across US, Veterans Day commemorations under way
Saturday marked the first of what will be three days of Veterans Day commemorations across the United States. The holiday falls on a Sunday, and the ...
Vets preserve memories of war with their own art
The fallen Iraqi soldier's face is frozen in agony, his eyes and mouth wide open, his arms spread in surrender, his death in the Kuwaiti desert ...
Mo. Sen. McCaskill using Romney in new TV ad
Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill ventured into Republican-leaning southern Missouri on Thursday, warning voters that challenger Todd Akin would be ...