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President Barack Obama is making a final push for the health care overhaul as he heads to Capitol Hill to meet with rank and file House Democrats ahead of tomorrow's scheduled vote.

Organizers say thousands of people are headed to the nation's capital to protest on the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

An Oregon trial could see the release of secret Boy Scouts of America documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders.

Officials say they've dropped criminal charges in 185 cases involving more than 180 suspects in Camden, N.J. because of an investigation of police misconduct.

U.S. Marshals using information from Detroit police have arrested in California a man wanted in a double slaying reported by the 8-year-old daughter of one of the victims.

Lawyers for a Florida mother charged with killing her two-year-old daughter say they have spent the $275,000 in her defense fund.

The search for a missing Washington state woman has resumed, one day after her son's body was found on an island beach in Puget Sound.

Dominican police have arrested a fugitive who acted as the lawyer for U.S. missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children.

One of three men convicted of killing Malcolm X 45 years ago has been granted release from weekends in prison in his 17th appearance before a state parole board.

Police say the man charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years in Northern California has been ruled out as a suspect in two unsolved murder cases involving children.