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Tree topples crane
The Week in Pictures includes this shot taken after a 150-year-old oak tree that was being removed got the better of a crane when the latter toppled over. No one was hurt.
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Hasan had intensified contact with cleric
In e-mails, Fort Hood suspect raised prospect of financial transfers. Full story
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Car strikes crowd outside Ala. school; 1 killed
Police say a woman has died after being struck along with nine children by a car outside an Alabama middle school.
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U.S. to drop case against Blackwater guard
The Justice Department intends to drop manslaughter and weapons charges against one of the Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting.
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Watch the opening to ‘100 Heartbeats’
NBC's Green Week culminates Sunday at 8 p.m. ET with the premiere on MSNBC Cable of "100 Heartbeats." Watch the start of the journey led by naturalist Jeff Corwin to help curb a rising rate of extinctions.
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Hasan had intensified contact with cleric
Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan exchanged e-mails with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial transfers, according to two sources.
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Nerves fray at Fort Hood as deployment nears
For some in a Fort Hood platoon that lost three in the on-base attack, anxiety is heightened ahead of an early January deployment to Afghanistan.
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Billboard links Obama with jihadists
A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.
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Vatican's ‘most important’ cross gets new look
One of the gems of the Vatican's priceless religious art collection — the Crux Vaticana — has been restored to its Byzantine-era glory.
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Goldman Sachs on Thanksgiving trash duty
The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free Thanksgiving dinners across New York — meals cooked by a ritzy caterer and cleaned up by employees of one of Wall Street's most vilified financial firms.
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Activists: Big disparities in gifted education
Disparities in gifted schooling exist in every state, according to the National Association for Gifted Children, which blames low federal funding and a focus on low-performing students.
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