It has been exactly one month since Staff Sergeant Amy Seyboth Tirador of Colonie was shot and killed in Iraq. Her grieving family is learning more about the circumstances surrounding her death, but there are still a lot of missing pieces to the puzzle.

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.- "Extremely difficult. It's painful for the community, it's painful for so many people," said third grade teacher Mary Berle. State budget woes are hitting home.

SCHENECTADY -- Politicians welcomed U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-Greenport) to the Electric City on Saturday to discuss a new plan to help seniors against potential fraud.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has offered to add Israeli systems and munitions to a new U.S.-built fighter jet and deliver it to Israel by 2015, provided a deal is sealed in coming months.

The chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee in 2001 told investigators Monday that elements of the Bush Administration were pushing for regime change in Iraq in early 2001, months before the 9/11 attacks and two years before President George

Aiming to cash in - literally - on growing public anger over joblessness, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich separately returned this week to the Republican nostrum of wide-ranging tax cuts, mostly for the rich, as the answer to every problem under the sun

"As long as we define our world ideologically in terms of conservatives or liberals, change ain't never gonna happen in the USA, for sure. Certainly not through politicians. They like the status quo, They depend upon it for their survival."

The U.S. Senate did the right thing today by confirming David Hamilton to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

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President Obama sent his top aides back to the drawing board Wednesday by "pushing for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government," a senior administration official said.