- Health care bill heads for make-or-break week
 The House's chief Democratic headcounter said Sunday he hadn't rounded up enough votes to pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul heading into a make-or-break week.
- Floods follow Northeast wind, rain storm
 As utility crews across the Northeast pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris to reach downed power lines Sunday, N.J. residents see round two of the storm: major flooding.
- 2 Americans shot dead on Mexico border
Two Americans, a U.S. consulate employee and her husband, were killed in a drive-by shooting in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican border city wracked by drug violence, the White House says.
- Haitian orphans find lifeline at Tenn. church
 Though Haiti was foreign to members of a Tennessee church, they fell in love with the girls of Coq Chante orphanage. Then January's earthquake sent tremors all the way to Knoxville.
- 4 on 2 motorcycles killed in Fla. collision
Four people on two motorcycles have been killed in western Florida after a pickup truck struck both bikes.
- Pentagon gun traced to Memphis police
Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.
- Firing of all teachers at RI school roils students
Ashley Delgado graduated from one of Rhode Island's worst-performing high schools and wanted to go to college — if only she could get there.
- Red River rising faster than Fargo expected
North Dakota and Minnesota residents who fought off record flooding a year ago in a frantic one-week sandbagging effort were jolted Sunday by the prospect of doing it over again.
- Questions arise over story of runaway Prius
Investigators with Toyota and the federal government were unable to make a Toyota Prius speed out of control as its owner said it did on a freeway, according to a memo.
- Obama chooses 1st young appeals court nominee
Thirteen months into his presidency, Barack Obama finally gave liberal supporters the kind of judicial nominee they had sought and conservatives feared.
- Amazon picks Colorado to stage tax fight
In severing those ties, Amazon blamed a new state law requiring it to collect up to an estimated $4.6 million in online sales taxes a year.
- Obama: Overhaul ‘No Child Left Behind’
 Instead of requiring schools to meet annual benchmarks, President Barack Obama's plan would encourage school improvement based on a system of incentives for the best schools and teachers.
- Ireland releases U.S. woman held in plot
 An American woman and three others arrested in Ireland over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge.
- Divided party? It’s not just Republicans
For all the evidence of a divided Republican Party, the Democratic Party has its own widening cracks that could make a potentially bleak election year even more dour.
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