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Democratic senators pressed ahead Saturday toward a crucial first vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a test of party unity in the face of solid Republican opposition.

The AAA auto club says a few more Americans will be traveling away from home for Thanksgiving this year, though most people are making their holiday treks by car.

A new report says gifted children are being ignored in the U.S., as most federal education funding goes to help struggling students learn the basics.

Atlantis' astronauts are taking another spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

Police and emergency responders around the nation have long struggled to deal with people who have mental illness. Now some say the situation is getting worse.

Students at the University of California, Santa Cruz, aren't ceding any ground in their protests against fee hikes and budget cuts after 41 demonstrators were arrested at UC Berkeley.

A winter storm with winds gusting to more than 80 mph is expected to leave as much as a foot of snow to the northern Nevada mountains.

The Federal Aviation Administration is blaming an equipment outage this week for delaying 819 flights.

An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room on Saturday.

Prosecutors say they'll drop manslaughter charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide contractors charged in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting.