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This time, they were actually invited - in fact, they were the guests of honor - but they didn't bother to show up.

Head bowed, U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan mumbled his way through a morning of tough questions at a House Homeland Security Committee oversight hearing about how a social climbing couple managed to breach White House security to crash the Nov.

Three Secret Service officers have been put on administrative leave after the security breach at last week's White House dinner, an episode President Barack Obama said hasn't shaken his confidence in his protectors.

In what could best be described as a mixed-message President Obama addressed the nation last night, with the characteristic staging to which we've become accustomed.

Officials said that losing the contract to build the trucks would cost the Houston area an estimated $1.8 billion, or seven Minute Maid Parks, per year.

The Pentagon's decision to shift the production of Army trucks from Texas to Wisconsin after 17 years caught Texas' elected officials by surprise, raising questions about overconfidence, a loss of political clout and the impact of economic incentives provided the winning company by Wisconsin's Democratic governor.

Veterans groups and soldiers' advocates are hoping an upcoming Pentagon review focuses on two areas they say are in desperate need of attention: the chronic shortage of mental health workers in the military and the brisk, sometimes relentless, pace of overseas deployments.

Wire transfers to Pakistan made by suspected Foot Hood, Texas, shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan weren't related to terrorism, a source says.

By BROOKS EGERTON and DAVE MICHAELS / The Dallas Morning News Brooks Egerton reported from Dallas; Dave Michaels reported from Washington.

The Houston area is slated to lose thousands of jobs but not if one group has anything to do with it.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan faces a pretrial confinement hearing Saturday at the San Antonio Army post where he lies paralyzed in a heavily guarded intensive-care unit.

Texas 10th District Focus: Turn TX-10 Blue In honor of Republican Michael McCaul's "no" vote on healthcare reform, despite the desperate need of his constituents have for healthcare reform , I have decided to focus a bit on the TX-10 district .

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist, accused of killing 13 fellow soldiers at a military base in Texas was on a "jihadist mission," a US lawmaker said on Tueday, contending it was too early to rule out that he was a "lone wolf" acting alone.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is charged with 13 counts of murder. Robert Godwin American-Statesman U.S. Rep.

Army and civilian personnel who were wounded or killed in the shooting attack on Fort Hood would be granted the same legal status as combatant casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, if bipartisan legislation introduced today by U.S. Representative John Carter passes into law.

Worried that the Army may have missed red flags about the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre, the Pentagon probably will open an inquiry into how all the military services keep watch on other volatile soldiers hidden in their ranks, officials said Tuesday.

As congressional hearings on the Fort Hood shootings near, the Republican rhetoric is ratcheting up.

By Associated Press Writers ANGELA K. BROWN, Associated Press Writers SUZANNE GAMBOA FORT HOOD, Texas – The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a shooting spree at Fort Hood made or accepted wire transfers with Pakistan, a nation used by Muslim extremists as a base from which to raise funds and plan terrorists attacks, a ...

Two Austin congressmen disagree on the immediate need for a congressional investigation into last week's mass shooting at Ft.

WASHINGTON: Not for the first time, the United States has downplayed reports of alleged Pakistana TMs nuclear transgressions and promotion of terrorism even as American lawmakers are getting increasingly restive about a nominal ally having become the crossroad where terrorism and nuclear proliferation meet.