WASHINGTON (AP) - And then there was one.

Historic health care legislation advanced to a Saturday night Senate showdown as centrist Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., fell in line as the 59th vote in an early test of party unity on President Barack Obama's top domestic initiative.

"It is clear to me that doing nothing is not an option," Landrieu said on the Senate floor as she delivered her long-awaited announcement just hours before the 8 p.m. EST vote

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., needs 60 votes in the

(NECN/KGO/ABC News: Berkeley, Calif.) - A protest at the University of California, Berkeley ended with dozens arrested Friday night.

The protesters, both students and non-students, locked themselves inside CAL's Wheeler Hall and barricaded doors Friday morning.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A crucial first Senate vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in a rare Saturday night session looms as a test of Democratic unity and the president's prestige.

Democratic leaders are optimistic of success, but they need every Democrat and both independents to vote "yes," and two moderates remained uncommitted ahead of the roll call, which is expected around 8 p.m. The vote will determine whether debate can go forward on Majority Leader Harry Reid's 2,074-page bill to dramatically remake the U.S. health care system over the next decade.

(NECN/AP/ABC News) - President Barack Obama is touting his recent Asian trip as a way to drum up thousands of jobs back home.

In his radio and Internet address, Obama says "Asia is a region where we now buy more goods and do more trade with than any other place in the world." He says that commerce "supports millions of jobs back home."

The president pitched his trip as a way to reintroduce the U.S. to those trading partners, including China.

Obama says if the United States can increase exports to the

WASHINGTON - The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials.

Federal investigators say they intercepted the messages between the suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric. They were passed along to two Joint Terrorism Task Force cells led by the FBI, but a senior defense official said no one at the Defense Department knew about the messages until

MIAMI (AP) - Investors claiming they were fleeced by a high-profile South Florida attorney filed a $100 million lawsuit Friday contending that the lawyer orchestrated a massive Ponzi scheme with the help of a Canadian bank's U.S. subsidiary and several accomplices.

The 147-page lawsuit, filed in Broward County Circuit Court, alleges that attorney Scott Rothstein and others in his now-defunct firm used faked legal settlements - or faked their involvement in real cases - to promise fat returns for investors. TD Bank, the

(NECN/ABC) - While federal investigators continue to gather evidence for the prosecution of Fort Hood shooting suspect Major Nidal Hasan, policymakers continue to ask questions about how so many signs were apparently missed or ignored.

On Capitol Hill yesterday, senators pointed to a series of e-mails between Hasan and Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, currently living in Yemen and considered a recruiter for al-Qaida.

An American official, who has seen them, told ABC News that Hasan wrote al-Awlaki, "I can't wait to join you" in the afterlife.

(NECN/ABC) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates pulled two former service chiefs out of retirement to get to the bottom of the Fort Hood massacre.

At the same time, Congress held its first hearing into the shootings -- without White House cooperation.

As the search for answers goes on, there are more revelations about the man accused of gunning down thirteen people.

(NECN: Greg Wayland) - The Fort Hood shootings were under review on Capitol Hill today. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is ordering a study on how the military can prevent tragedies.

New England Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut led the Senate Homeland Security Committee's questioning of civilian terrorism experts.

They heard testimony that troubling information about the accused Fort Hood shooter, Army psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, may have been bottled up.

(NECN: Washington) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced today that he is appointing former heads of the Army and Navy to head a Pentagon review into the Fort Hood massacre.

Gates is putting former Army Secretary Togo West and former Navy chief Vernon Clark in charge of a broad Pentagon review of the circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shootings.

Gates says the 45-day review will look into gaps in how the military identifies service members who might be a threat to others. It also will look at personnel and medical programs, and at