Fort Hood

...Department and the Defense Department are asking lawmakers on Capitol Hill to back off from holding hearings on the Nov. 5 rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead and 38 wounded. Democratic leaders have by and large agreed, leading...

In this article: Pentagon, Robert M. Gates, Justice Department, Joseph I. Lieberman, and Connecticut

Hospital hearing requested for suspect in Fort Hood shootings Suspect Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, has a hearing Saturday about pretrial confinement. Nidal Malik Hasan's attorney says client basically already in pretrial...

In this article: U.S., Purple Heart, U.S. Army, Barack Obama, and CNN

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room on Saturday. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's civilian attorney, John...

In this article: San Antonio and Brooke Army Medical Center

...10 memorial ceremony. By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY WASHINGTON Many more mental health specialists were wounded in the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood, Texas, than previously reported, decimating the two units deploying to Afghanistan and...

In this article: Afghanistan, Michelle Obama, USA Today, and Iraq

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - Sarah Palin's tour to promote her new memoir will include a stop at Fort Hood to benefit the victims of the shooting rampage and their families. An updated schedule for the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee...

In this article: Texas and Alaska

Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman gaveled into session Capitol Hill's first public hearing on the Fort Hood attack, promising Thursday to run his investigation from exactly where he sat on the dais -- the center. The homeland security committee...

In this article: Joseph I. Lieberman, John McCain, White House, Carl M. Levin, Iraq War, Daily Kos, National Public Radio, and Susan Collins

...may prompt a failure to identify servicemembers who pose a threat, a bid to prevent future incidents such as the mass killings at Fort Hood this month. Gates called it "disturbing" that Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, who...

In this article: Robert M. Gates, Pentagon, and Togo D. West Jr.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trying to avert another tragedy like the Fort Hood shootings, Defense Secretary Robert Gates named a former Army secretary and former Navy chief to review a broad range of Pentagon programs, ranging from medical and...

In this article: Robert Gates, Togo West, Pentagon, and Washington

...revealed that the attacks could possible have been prevented "if only the dots had been connected." "In the wake of the mass murder at Fort Hood, we must once again confront a troubling question: Was this another failure to connect the...

In this article: Joseph Lieberman, Susan Collins, Ideology, and FBI

FORT HOOD, TEX. -- Families from Georgia to California buried their Fort Hood dead over the weekend, but here on the nation's largest military installation, the pace of operations did not slow. Soldiers by the hundred bid tearful farewells...

In this article: Suicide, Pentagon, and Massage