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Police are searching a Seattle neighborhood Monday for the suspect in the shooting deaths of four police officers from a Tacoma, Wash., suburb. Earlier, a SWAT team stormed a house in the area where Maurice Clemmons was thought to be hiding, but he had already escaped.

President Obama said Tuesday success in Afghanistan "was inextricably linked" to Pakistan. Adil Najam, professor of international relations at Boston University and the founding editor of the blog Pakistaniat: All Things Pakistan, says events in Afghanistan have an almost-immediate impact in neighboring Pakistan.

A jury as ordered Ammon Bundy and an associate to pay more than $50 million in damages to Idaho's largest hospital after armed protests last year led to a security lockdown.

Nat Read has ridden every mile on the Amtrak rail network. He tells NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer why he's "never grown tired" of looking at the country through a train window.

Soldiers returning from Iraq often have to confront painful memories of war. Now military and veteran hospitals are using virtual reality to help veterans relive their experiences in order to break through them.

The Senate enters the second week of debate on a defense bill setting military policies and authorizing next year's Pentagon spending. Some senators are pushing to restore the legal protections of foreign detainees deemed to be "unlawful enemy combatants."

Senior officials have been deployed by the Bush administration to plead for more time for a troop surge to show results, after Congress voted in favor of a U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. But two Republican senators have introduced a bill calling for a pullout.

Relentless rains have pounded north-central Texas and southwest Oklahoma over the past two weeks. At least 11 people have died. Thousands have scrambled to safety. Fire ants and snakes are the next worry.

Cleveland artist Viktor Schreckengost turns 100 today. He is being honored by 100 museums across the country for his work in industrial design, pottery, dinnerware, toys, sculpture and watercolors.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is making a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina. The state's January presidential primary will be the first held in the southern U.S. and could provide a key test of Obama's viability with black voters.