Like others, a Virginia couple struggles with a child's violent death. >>

Medicare's trustees warned today that the program was in critical financial condition, triggering a legal requirement that will force a potentially far-reaching debate during the 2008 election campaign over benefit cuts and tax increases. >>

President says Gonzales did nothing wrong in firing eight U.S. attorneys. >>

Hours before House and Senate negotiators were scheduled to begin writing a compromise bill to provide about $100 billion to prosecute the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Bush today reiterated his demand that the legislation include no timetable for withdrawing the troops. >>

A poll finds the liberal-leaning former New York mayor remains top choice of white GOP evangelicals. >>

An unusually high number of people pack churches in Blacksburg, Va., seeking comfort and answers. >>

At a support group's convention, they learn to help sons and daughters returning from deployment, and to help themselves. >>

Key GOP senator says the attorney general's testimony hurt the White House and the Justice Department. >>

WASHINGTON — Karl Rove's debate with singer Sheryl Crow and producer Laurie David about global warming heated the atmosphere at a black-tie Washington dinner. >>

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA. — A Virginia Tech freshman who returned home with his family after last week's campus massacre was killed in a car crash, his father said Sunday. >>

Investigators looked through wreckage to determine what had caused a Navy Blue Angels jet to crash into a residential neighborhood, and the military identified the fallen pilot as Lt. Cmdr. Kevin J. Davis, 32, of Pittsfield, Mass., who was performing in one of his first air shows with the precision flying team. >>

Downed power lines, flattened houses and roads littered with debris kept many residents from returning to their homes in the rural Panhandle town of Cactus, hit hard by what appeared to be a group of tornadoes. >>

Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar of Claysburg, Pa., won $25,000 and was crowned national text messaging champion in New York after she typed "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from the film "Mary Poppins" in 15 seconds. >>