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CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. – A judge in Virginia says parts of a $10 million lawsuit filed by the families of two students slain in the mass shootings at Virginia Tech can go forward. Visiting Circuit Court Judge William Alexander says the families of Julia Pryde and Erin Peterson alleged enough facts …

SEATTLE – The aggravated murder trial has begun in Seattle for a man charged with killing four members of a Kirkland family and setting their home on fire. King County Deputy Prosecutor Scott O’Toolle told the jury Wednesday that Conner Schierman attacked the family that lived across the street from …

The 89-year-old man charged with a deadly shooting at Washington’s Holocaust museum died Wednesday in a prison hospital, authorities said. At Butner federal prison in North Carolina, spokeswoman Denise Simmons announced that James von Brunn died shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday. SLIDESHOW: Holocaust Museum Shooting Simmons said von Brunn had …

Hey, if you listen to the White House, there’s nothing else to worry about — the worst is behind us! (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: We can stand here today and say, ‘We prevented another depression.’ We broke the back of the recession. The economy that was shrinking by …

Former President Bill Clinton is resting at his suburban New York City home following a procedure known as angioplasty, which involved surgeons placing two stents in one of his coronary arteries. Clinton was hospitalized Thursday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan after experiencing discomfort in his chest. Clinton adviser …

The news that is not White House approved… There He Goes Again John Brennan is at it again. The president’s embattled counterterrorism adviser took a bizarre position on terrorists who returned to the battlefield after being released from U.S. custody. The government estimates 20 percent of the terrorists we released …

Late Thursday afternoon, the president once again talked about the failure to stop the underwear bomber on Christmas Day. The address was supposed to contain some sharp analysis, perhaps a firing or two. It did not. Instead, the president mostly repeated his opinion that the federal counterterrorism operation pretty much …

There comes a point in haggling where even the best used car salesmen say, “Enough! Are you gonna buy this damn car or not?” Now, with apologies to all hard-working used car salesmen out there, I’m comparing you to Democrats on this health care reform thing. Again, I’m sorry, but …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: F-Bomb Vice President Joe Biden doesn’t appear to be in the doghouse after saying to the President in the East Room of the White House Tuesday within microphone range that health care reform is a “big f***ing deal” — using the expletive …

So I spent shorty-robe Sunday watching TV (in my shorty-robe), witnessing many experts ride the “root causes of terrorism” merry-go-round. They expressed surprise that so many well-educated and well bred men end up trying to kill us — as if a diploma from the University of Bridgeport makes you immune …