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The one-year review of the military's response to sexual assault within the ranks comes in response to a spate of embarrassing incidents in recent months.

NASA astronauts will be heading out to conduct critical repairs on the International Space Station early Saturday morning. The 6 1/2-hour spacewalk, the first in a series, will replace a faulty piece of cooling equipment.

The law will give some students who are in the U.S. illegally the ability to pay cheaper, in-state tuition.

U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby ruled that the state's 2004 ban on same-sex marriage violates the 14th Amendment's due process clause.

John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan and three others in 1981, has been granted more time to visit his mother's home in Virginia.

Massachusetts authorities pulled over a suspicious vehicle only to find 1,250 of the packets, some of them that were also stamped "Kurt Cobain."

The Federal Reserve will trim its bond-buying program, reducing its purchases by $10 billion per month.

The secretary of state told a top official in New Delhi that a row over the strip-search of a U.S.-based Indian female diplomat should not come between the two countries.

A panel appointed by President Obama to review U.S. surveillance activities has recommended that the NSA not be allowed to store Americans' phone records.

The deal, with much less drama than past spending votes, is OK'd by a simple majority nearly a week after the House approved the measure.