
USA TODAY Should teens face life in prison without parole?
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Charles grew up in a Baltimore housing project where his ambition early on was to go to state prison and build a serious tough-guy rep. At 13 he was sent to reform school. At 17 he was found guilty of manslaughter for killing someone in a knife fight. Out on parole for that crime, he was caught with...

USA TODAY Do you think these salaries are justified? Search our NCAA salary database to check and compare salaries, view actual contracts.
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Jeff Tedford is a proven, program-building football coach who makes no apologies for the contract extension he landed before this season and the $2.8 million in pay he's guaranteed this year. But here and elsewhere across the landscape of big-time, big-budgeted college athletics, these are sensitive...

USA TODAY Did you know people who currently own may still qualify for the home buyer tax credit? Sandy Block has the details in her latest column.
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A bill signed into law Friday extends the $8,000 first-time home-buyer credit, originally scheduled to expire Nov. 30. The legislation also makes the credit available to some who already own a home but would like to trade up to a nicer place.

USA TODAY Is including a terrorist attack on civilians fair game or does it take things too far?
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (out today) looks to test the boundaries of what is deemed acceptable in video games.

USA TODAY How do you think these cases should be handled?
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The lawyer for a Florida man serving life in prison without parole for a crime committed when he was 16 told the Supreme Court Monday that such a sentence tells a youth he is forever unfit to live in society, and is unconstitutionally cruel.

USA TODAY Would the House-passed health plan improve your care?
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Health care reform is always a balancing act. The current effort tries to do two hard-to-reconcile things at the same time: improve coverage and control costs. The complex measure passed by the House late Saturday does the first a lot better than the second.

USA TODAY USA TODAY exclusive: Read what John Travolta has to say in his first interview since the January death of his son Jett.
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John Travolta says the family struggles daily to get by since the death of 16-year-old son Jett, but that family, religion and intensive therapy have helped them cope.

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USA TODAY Fort Hood story is still developing. Here's the latest.
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An Army psychiatrist who had counseled troops and was upset about being deployed to Iraq shouted Allahu Akbar! and opened fire on an unarmed crowd at Fort Hood Army base Thursday afternoon, killing 13 people and wounding 30, military officials said.

USA TODAY Here's what we know now about the Fort Hood massacre.
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The suspect in a mass shooting Thursday at Fort Hood in Texas is alive, the military said Thursday. .

USA TODAY Breaking news: Mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas kills at least 7.
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USA TODAY Are there lessons to be garnered from the fall of the Berlin Wall?
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First as a college student, then as a high school teacher, and later as a Ph.D. candidate, I had the opportunity to travel behind the Iron Curtain a couple dozen times in the decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989. No matter where I went, one thing always stood out. There was a un...

USA TODAY Will this new seat-belt technology affect your next purchase?
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After about a decade of engineering, Ford is ready to roll out a technology that will improve safety for rear-seat passengers: inflatable seat belts.

USA TODAY What would you expect to learn about Sarah Palin from her new book, "Going Rogue"?
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USA TODAY Do you think the results reflect on President Obama?
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Republicans swept governors' races in New Jersey and Virginia on Tuesday, giving the GOP bragging rights by winning two key states that Barack Obama carried a year ago.






















