While emphasizing President Barack Obama hasn't made any final decisions yet, administration officials tell The Associated Press that he is moving closer to sending tens of thousands of more forces to Afghanistan. The number would be just under the 40,000 sought by his top general there, Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
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Authorities say former student who took a school administrator hostage in upstate New York surrendered to police. "Evidently, there is some speculation that he (the gunman) had a loved one in the military and somehow this is some contrived scheme on his part to do something about that," one Pine Plains official says.

As if Democrats didn't have enough to worry about in overhauling health care, the weighty issue of abortion has suddenly rocketed to the forefront of the debate, dividing lawmakers and threatening the party's ability to pass reform legislation. So, will the Senate pass a measure with abortion restrictions like the House just did?
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The operator of a Boston subway train is hailed as a hero for hitting her emergency brake just in time to avoid running over a woman who had fallen into the train's path.

Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine denies the clemency request of John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that gripped the nation's capital with fear for three weeks in 2002. Muhammad is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight at a Virginia prison.

Residents along the U.S. Gulf Coast who refused to evacuate the area ahead of Ida are likely feeling a bit vindicated as the storm sloshes ashore in a weakened state.

A 17-year-old who went missing in the Arctic on Saturday while polar bear hunting with his uncle was rescued Monday morning, adrift on a chunk of ice. He shot a polar bear to protect himself while he waited for help.