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I recently had the opportunity to take my 8-year-old son, Jackson, to see the movie "42" -- the story of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in major league baseball.

Fort Hood is the Army installation in Killeen, halfway between Austin and Waco. The base opened in January 1942, serving as a training center for soldiers joining artillery and anti-tank units.

Joe Lumaya/Special to the Star Tony Lau samples salsa with his daughter, Colleen Lau, during the Military Salsa Festival at Moorpark College on Sunday.

With the growing scrutiny of government databases and the extent of domestic surveillance, new questions are being raised about a program FBI Director Robert Mueller once said could pull in emails from U.S. citizens on domestic soil "as they come in."

Israel and the United States since 9/11 have taken strikingly different approaches to protecting their citizens from acts of terror.

This undated file photo provided by the Bell County Sheriff's Department shows Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage that left 13 dead.

Their son, Sgt. James McDonald, served two tours with the Army in Iraq. On Memorial Day 2007, McDonald suffered severe brain trauma from an IED.

Medicare panel - A federal advisory panel said Friday that Congress should move immediately to cut payments to hospitals for many services that can be provided at much lower cost in doctors' offices.

Newtown held a moment of silence Friday for the victims of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School at a remembrance event that doubled as a call to action on gun control, with the reading of names of thousands of victims of gun violence.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would award Purple Heart medals to victims of the shootings at Fort Hood, a move the Pentagon says could disrupt the alleged shooter's trial.

Military judge Col. Tara Osborn Friday rejected Maj. Nidal Hasan's plan to mount a defense based on the claim he shot U.S. troops in 2009 at Fort Hood to protect Taliban leaders in Afghanistan.

A military judge was to address the latest snag holding up the trial in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage: the former defense attorneys' objections to helping the suspect as he represents himself in court.

Political Correctness: A member of the U.S. Army Band says he's being reprimanded for having the wrong bumper stickers on his car, serving politically incorrect food at a party and reading books by conservative authors.

An instructor at an Army medical training school at a military base in Texas was wounded Monday when a fellow service member shot her outside her office, authorities said.

Defense attorneys ordered to help the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage say they're being asked to cross ethical lines.

She was wearing red, white and blue. And the bow in her hair was almost as big as her seven-month-old head.

Backers of far-reaching immigration legislation are turning their attention to courting support and counting votes after the Senate pushed the contentious bill over early procedural hurdles.

Authorities on Wednesday charged a Fort Hood sergeant with paying for sex with a soldier in a prostitution scheme allegedly arranged by a low-level coordinator of the Texas Army post's sexual assault prevention program.

The House is girding for another wrenching debate on abortion after a House panel approved legislation that would ban almost all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.