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The demand for nurses is soaring, but it isn't easy to get into nursing school these days because there aren't enough teachers.

Democrats unveiled what they hope will be the final version of their health care overhaul bill after days of closed-door meetings, setting the stage for a showdown vote in the House on Sunday. With his top domestic priority hanging in the balance, President Obama again postponed an overseas trip that has already been pushed back once.

Mexican and U.S. leaders have vowed to track down the gunmen who killed three people, including two U.S. citizens, with ties to the U.S. Consulate in the border town of Juarez. Mexican authorities say they believe the killings are linked to the country's raging drug war.

Now that Fred Thompson has declared that he's really running for president, the former Tennessee Republican senator and actor faces a more specific challenge. He needs to win over voters in the early primary states such as Iowa, where he made his first campaign stop.

President-elect Barack Obama says despite the enormous task a head, he's as hopeful as ever that the U.S. will endure and prevail and fulfill the dreams of its founders. Obama addressed the crowd gathered for a celebrity-packed concert at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday. Some estimates put the attendance as high as several hundred thousand.

The winter storm disrupted work and life in the Washington, D.C., area. John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management, says closing the federal government on Monday has an opportunity cost of $100 million. Greg Teneick, spokesman for Safeway grocery stores, says his stores were busy on Thursday and Friday, but the challenge was getting them open once the snow hit.

There has been no relief for Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Morgan's stock was down 43 percent at one point despite reports of ongoing talks with China Investment Corp., which already owns a nearly 10 percent stake in the investment bank.

U.S. employers added a whopping 336,000 jobs in September. That's about twice as many as forecasters were expecting.

In January 2015, Lauren Passell slipped and fell on an icy New York City street, completely breaking her hip. She says one of the people who came up to help her changed her life.

The leader of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka is dead. That's according to international news agency reports out of the island. It marks the final end of a war that's lasted more than a quarter if a century and claimed tens of thousands of lives.