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Posted: 09 Nov 2010 04:58 PM PST
Nearly 59 million Americans went without health insurance coverage for at least part of 2010, many of them with conditions or diseases that needed treatment, federal health officials said on Tuesday.
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 12:44 PM PST
One week after the election, the Tea Partiers appear to be the ones who are moderating—or, in the words of National Review's Veronique de Rugy, "selling out."
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 04:23 PM PST
A Connecticut woman who was fired after she posted disparaging remarks about her boss on Facebook has prompted a legal case by federal authorities who say her comments are protected speech.
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 03:45 PM PST
Nov. 9: Southern California was buzzing Tuesday over what looked on videotape like the launch of a large missile near Catalina Island. What's the Pentagon's explanation? Jim Miklaszewski reports.  (Nightly News)Southern California was buzzing Tuesday over what looked on videotape like the launch of a large missile near Catalina Island. What's the Pentagon's explanation? Jim Miklaszewski reports. (Nightly News)
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 11:12 AM PST
Hikers walk along the South Kaibab Trail on Sept. 27 in Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park. For the well-prepared who are relatively physically fit, hiking into the canyon is safe and offers an experience that's difficult to duplicate. About 4.5 million people visit the Grand Canyon every year, with relatively few venturing too far below the rim — where the trails along the cliffs offer constantly changing views that are otherworldly.
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 03:51 PM PST
Nov. 9: The outbreak that has killed nearly 600 people in Haiti in the last three weeks has reached the capital city, where health authorities warn it it will spread quickly. NBC's Brian Williams reports.  (Nightly News)The outbreak that has killed nearly 600 people in Haiti in the last three weeks has reached the capital city, where health authorities warn it it will spread quickly. NBC's Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 01:41 PM PST
An achievement gap separating black from white students has long been documented — a social divide extremely vexing to policy makers and the target of one blast of school reform after another. But a new report focusing on black males suggests that the picture is even bleaker than generally known
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 04:20 PM PST
President Barack Obama will make a major speech addressed to the Islamic world on Wednesday, before an erupting volcano forces him to make an early departure from the world's largest Muslim-majority nation.
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 11:15 AM PST
Debris is seen after a house, once used by gladiators to train before combat, collapsed in Pompeii on Nov. 6.Italy is rich in ancient wonders, but the real wonder may be that so many are still standing given the poor care they get.
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 03:49 PM PST
Nov. 9: President Obama had a long-awaited homecoming in Jakarta on Tuesday, but the visit was cut short when conditions from the erupting Mount Merapi volcano threatened to worsen. NBC's Lee Cowan reports. (Nightly News)President Obama had a long-awaited homecoming in Jakarta on Tuesday, but the visit was cut short when conditions from the erupting Mount Merapi volcano threatened to worsen. NBC's Lee Cowan reports. (Nightly News)
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 04:33 PM PST
Tiger skins like this one dominate seizures in India and Nepal and are relatively frequent in China, Russia and Indonesia, according to the wildlife monitoring group TRAFFIC.Body parts from 1,000 wild tigers have been seized over the past decade, crimes fueling the extinction crisis faced by the species whose numbers are estimated at just 3,200, a wildlife group says.
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 12:54 PM PST
Eleven-year old Reuben Soames looked up his family's house on Google Street View and saw a strange man standing in the driveway next to the the family's camper -- the same camper stolen from the yard a little more than a year before. Eleven-year old Reuben Soames looked up his family's house on Google Street View and saw a strange man standing in the driveway next to the the family's camper -- the same camper stolen from the yard a little more than a year before.
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 12:42 PM PST
Conan O'Brien impressed many diehard fans with his TBS debut, but some felt let down."Conan" was a ratings winner, but what really matters is what viewers thought. His diehard fans still love him and he may have won some new viewers over, but he also let others down.
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 01:42 PM PST
Lance Cpl. Andreas Padilla, left, of Los Angeles, and Sgt. Freddia Cavasos, of Visalia, Calif., with India company, 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, First Marine Division, return fire during a patrol in Sangin, Afghanistan on Sunday. U.S. Marines who recently inherited this lush river valley in southern Helmand province from British forces have tossed aside their predecessor's playbook in favor of a more aggressive strategy to tame one of the most violent places in Afghanistan.

Posted: 09 Nov 2010 12:06 PM PST
Former U.S. President George W. Bush speaks at the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul October 14, 2009. George W. Bush, promoting his memoir that hit store shelves Tuesday, defended his decisions as president in a jokey interview with television talk show queen Oprah Winfrey.
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 11:38 AM PST
Nov. 9: NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports a missile expert believes that the mystery object seen in the skies over Southern California may have been an optical illusion of a plane's contrail that had flown over the visible horizon. (Other)NBC's Jim Miklaszewski reports a missile expert believes that the mystery object seen in the skies over Southern California may have been an optical illusion of a plane's contrail that had flown over the visible horizon. (Other)
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 11:38 AM PST
A military court building on Joint Base Lewis-McChord is shown Tuesday,  in Washington state. An Article 32 hearing for Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs began on charges that include murder, dereliction of duty and trying to impede an investigation, in connection with the deaths of Afghan civilians while Gibbs was deployed in Afghanistan. The Army sergeant accused of masterminding a plan to kill Afghan civilians for sport and goading other soldiers to do the same appeared at a military hearing Tuesday to determine whether there is enough evidence to court-martial him.
Posted: 09 Nov 2010 08:55 AM PST