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 Questions Remain as DC Sniper's End Looms 

Number of victims a mystery; Muhammed slated to die Tuesday

60 minutes ago
SUPREME COURT DOCKET

 Teens Sentenced to Life: 
 Cruel and Unusual? 

High court will address sentences for kid convicts who didn't kill

3 hours, 30 minutes ago
fort hood shoooting

 It's Not 
 Her First 
 Time as 
 'Hero' 

Munley saved a fellow officer while a cop in NC

Nov 7, 09 2:38 PM CST

 Orlando 
 Shooter's 
 Mom: 'I Am 
 So Sorry' 

Suspect's lawyer calls him 'very, very mentally ill'

Nov 7, 09 1:25 PM CST
opinion

 Honor Hero Cop: End 
 Ban on Women in Combat 

Time to wrap up the military's 'failed social experiment'

Nov 7, 09 10:15 AM CST

 Joe Jackson Asks 
 Estate for Allowance 

Michael left dad out of the will, but supported him for years

Nov 7, 09 8:04 AM CST
FORT HOOD SHOOTING

 At Vigil, A Reminder 
 'to Keep Breathing' 

Hundreds attend Fort Hood's first gathering since shooting

Nov 6, 09 8:58 PM CST
FORT HOOD SHOOTING

 Hasan Cleaned House, 
 Gave Much to Neighbors 

Suspect said he was Iraq-bound, offered mattress, food, clothes

Nov 6, 09 7:00 PM CST
fort hood shooting

Hasan Felt Discriminated Against, Wanted Out of Army

Suspect moved to
San Antonio hospital

Nov 6, 09 5:30 PM CST
dumb criminals

Drunk Driver Calls Cops to Report Stolen Weed

Man sought help in tracking down another intoxicant

Nov 6, 09 3:55 PM CST
fort hood shooting

 Pregnant Soldier 
 Among Victims 

Bases observe minute of silence 24 hours after shooting

Nov 6, 09 3:03 PM CST
UPDATED

Fla. Shooting Spree Suspect Arrested

'Lone gunman' Jason Rodriguez found at his mother's Orlando home

Nov 6, 09 1:42 PM CST
updated


 1 Dead, 5 Injured in 
 Orlando Shooting Spree 

Police still hunting for the gunman

Nov 6, 09 1:05 PM CST
FORT HOOD SHOOTING

 Flags at Half-Staff Through 
 Veterans Day: Obama 

President calls the move a 'modest tribute' to Fort Hood victims

Nov 6, 09 11:55 AM CST
fort hood shooting

 Hero Cop 
 Took Down 
 Shooter in 
 'Amazing  
 Performance' 

Swiftly responding officer shot once as she put 4 in Hasan

Nov 6, 09 10:56 AM CST

 Rihanna: 'I Was 
 Battered, I Was 
 Bleeding' 

'I fended him off with my feet,' she says of Chris Brown attack

Nov 6, 09 10:27 AM CST
fort hood shooting

  Blame 'Vicarious' PTSD 

Trauma is infectious, Essig writes, and therapists can catch it

Nov 6, 09 10:03 AM CST
fort hood shooting

Witnesses: Major Yelled 'Allahu Akbar' Before Firing

Family says he is devout, not extremist

Nov 6, 09 9:01 AM CST
SLIDESHOW

 At Fort Hood, Pain, Questions 

The Army town of Killeen struggles to understand the tragedy

Nov 6, 09 8:30 AM CST

 Fort Hood Death Toll Hits 13 

 SWAT teams, FBI scour suspect's home

Nov 6, 09 7:53 AM CST

Census Worker May Have Hanged Himself

Investigators consider suicide in naked 'fed' case

Nov 6, 09 6:32 AM CST
ANALYSIS

Army's Stress Most Obvious
at Fort Hood

Repeat deployments prompt record levels of suicide, depression

Nov 6, 09 6:16 AM CST
vandals' paradise

 Abandoned Detroit Draws 
 Pranksters, Artists 

80K empty buildings a mecca for 'urban explorers'

Nov 6, 09 5:53 AM CST
FORT HOOD SHOOTING

Gunman Hasan a Lifelong Muslim, Devout Soldier

He counseled returning soldiers with PTSD

Nov 5, 09 11:20 PM CST


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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Galleon Scandal: Shocked, Shocked by Insider Trading

5
Nov 6, 09 | 9:26 AM BY Michael Wolff

How is it that we get a major insider trading scandal every two decades or so? The last big one, which ultimately ensnarled Michael Milken, the legendary junk bond king, happened in the late eighties. The current one, with a mass of arrests yesterday, threatens the hedge fund industry. It seems reasonable to assume from the intermittent decades of prosecution that this particular sort of financial larceny is quite a rare bird and when it rears its head the Feds pounce.... More »

Rupert Murdoch Is Mad but Cute

10
Nov 5, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

The Wall Street Journal was a great paper. It is still a pretty great paper but it is not the great Wall Street Journal.... More »

Skype Lives!

15
Nov 4, 09 | 8:33 AM BY Michael Wolff

I follow entrepreneurial dramas the way other people follow sports (did somebody win the World Series?). In these comedies, tragedies,... More »

Why the GOP Will Rise Again

25
Nov 3, 09 | 9:11 AM BY Michael Wolff

The strange business that is going on in New York’s 23rd Congressional District, which occupies some other universe than the one... More »

Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston: How They Took America

21
Nov 2, 09 | 8:40 AM BY Michael Wolff

Of all the outcomes of the 2008 presidential election, the strangest, beyond the rise of Sarah Palin herself, is the success of Levi Johnston.... More »

Why the Media Is Taking So Long to Die

17
Oct 30, 09 | 9:21 AM BY Michael Wolff

I participated the other night in an oddly formal, anglophilic, Oxford-style, for-and-against-the-proposition debate on the topic of (you... More »

How the Internet Got Lost and Why Google’s GPS Won’t Show Us the Way Out

11
Oct 29, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

I had lunch yesterday with my old friend and former colleague, Chip Bayers, who, 15 years ago this week, after having left my fledgling... More »

Pot Will Save Us

39
Oct 28, 09 | 11:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Wow. Pot. Just like that, on its way to being legalized. Well, just like that after 50 years or so. In order to save itself from financial... More »

Is Obama a Sleaze?

31
Oct 27, 09 | 8:58 AM BY Michael Wolff

So it turns out there’s a reason the president hasn’t wrapped up health care or Iraq, figured out Afghanistan, closed Guantanamo,... More »

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