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Afghan war comes home to the U.S.
From caskets to deployments and protests, America takes new notice. Full story
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Senate health plan gets past test vote
Democrats secure the 60 votes needed to overcome key hurdle. Full story
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Car strikes crowd outside Ala. school; 1 killed
Police say a woman has died after being struck along with nine children by a car outside an Alabama middle school.
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Judge keeps Hasan confined until trial
A military magistrate rules that the Army psychiatrist charged in one of the worst mass shootings on a U.S. military base will be held until trial.
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Watch the opening to ‘100 Heartbeats’
NBC's Green Week culminates Sunday at 8 p.m. ET with the premiere on MSNBC Cable of "100 Heartbeats." Watch the start of the journey led by naturalist Jeff Corwin to help curb a rising rate of extinctions.
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Hasan had intensified contact with cleric
Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan exchanged e-mails with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers, according to two sources.
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Afghan war grows more visible in U.S.
A record number of Afghan war deaths in October has forced the U.S. to take new notice of Afghanistan as debate rages over whether President Obama should send tens of thousands more troops.
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Billboard links Obama with jihadists
A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.
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Pope meets 250 artists to renew friendship
Pope Benedict met artists from around the world in the Sistine Chapel and urged them to inject spirituality into their work, saying contemporary beauty was often "illusory and deceitful."
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Goldman Sachs on Thanksgiving trash duty
The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free Thanksgiving dinners across New York — meals cooked by a ritzy caterer and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms.
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Campus atheists come out of the closet
As the stigma of atheism has diminished, campus atheists and agnostics across the United States are coming out of the closet.
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