WASHINGTON, D.C.

President Barack Obama has ordered that American flags flying over the White House and other federal buildings be lowered to half-staff through Veterans Day in honor of those killed Thursday at Fort Hood.

By BRIAN SKOLOFF and ANGELA K. BROWN  FORT HOOD, Texas A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree at the military base.

By CARYN ROUSSEAU and ROBERT IMRIE

By JEFF CARLTON

KILLEEN, Texas A civilian police officer is being praised for taking down a man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood when she shot him in the torso.

Police officials say after arriving at the scene of Thursday's gunfire, Sgt. Kimberly Munley saw the suspect and started firing at him.

By EILEEN SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON The family of the suspected Fort Hood shooter says "the actions of their cousin are despicable and deplorable."

By BEN FELLER

WASHINGTON President Barack Obama said Friday the entire nation is grieving for those slain at Fort Hood, and he urged people not to jump to conclusions while law enforcement officers investigate the shootings.

WASHINGTON Several Muslim community groups warned of a growing backlash against their faith in the wake of the Fort Hood shooting and urged law enforcement officers across the country to be vigilant.

Nawal Shora, legal director for the American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee, says his office and affiliates across the country have received threats and are passing them along to the FBI.

By Erika Lovley 

Talk about bad timing.

As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress.

With the U.S. House expected to vote Saturday on the most significant health care overhaul in more than a generation, one South Hampton Roads congressman is strongly for it, another is vehemently opposed and a third is on the fence.

RALEIGH, N.C. The White House nominated two North Carolina judges Wednesday to fill seats on the nation's most conservative federal appeals court.