The Airlift Research Foundation, a relatively new Shadyside-based charitable, public foundation, will honor America's soldiers shortly after Veterans Day by awarding grants to fund research into improvements in the care, treatment and rehabilitation of traumatic limb injury received on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. (Today)

WASHINGTON -- Intelligence agencies intercepted communications last year and earlier this year between the military psychiatrist accused of shooting to death 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, and a radical cleric in Yemen known for his incendiary anti-American teachings. (Today)

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court yesterday appeared split along familiar ideological lines over whether sentencing a juvenile to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a nonhomicide violates the Constitution's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. (Today)

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court yesterday denied John Allen Muhammad's request to stay his execution, clearing the way for Virginia to put to death the man who terrorized the Washington region as the Beltway Sniper. (Today)

WASHINGTON -- As health care legislation moves toward a crucial airing in the Senate, the White House is facing a growing revolt from some Democrats and analysts who say the bills that Congress is considering do not fulfill President Barack Obama's promise to slow the runaway rise in health care spending. (Today)