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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Officials say six people are dead and three are wounded after a shooting attack at a California Christian university....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of the federal agency that oversees supplies, transportation and office space for the federal government has resigned following reports of lavish spending at a Nevada training conference in 2010....

NEW YORK (AP) -- The new World Trade Center has reached a milestone: The skyscraper being built to replace the terror-wrecked twin towers is now 100 stories high - on its way to becoming New York's tallest building....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Affirmative action proponents took a hit Monday as a federal appeals court panel upheld California's ban on using race, ethnicity and gender in admitting students to public colleges and universities....

NEW YORK (AP) -- When did our ancestors first use fire? That's been a long-running debate, and now a new study concludes the earliest firm evidence comes from about 1 million years ago in a South African cave....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ten House Democrats, including a member of the party's leadership and lawmakers who oversee intelligence and homeland security matters, have criticized New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his "underhanded and unprofessional" response to criticism of the New York Police Department's spying programs....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Freak chance was mostly to blame for the record warm March weather that gripped two-thirds of the country, with man-made global warming providing only a tiny assist, a quick federal analysis shows....

LUFKIN, Texas (AP) -- A jury heard evidence Monday to decide if an East Texas nurse goes to death row or spends the rest of her life in prison for killing five kidney dialysis patients by injecting them with bleach....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Freak chance was mostly to blame for the record warm March weather that gripped two-thirds of the country, with man-made global warming getting only a tiny assist, a quick federal analysis shows....

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A 17-year-old boy with a provisional driver's license was behind the wheel when a converted semitrailer crashed on a Kansas highway, killing five members of his Minnesota family who were on vacation to see a motocross race, authorities said Monday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that jailers may subject people arrested for minor offenses to invasive strip searches, siding with security needs over privacy rights....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Jeanne Thompson began going gray at 23. She colored her hair for years as she worked her way into management at a large Boston-area financial services company, then gave up the dye for good about a year ago....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the second year in a row, low-cost carrier AirTran Airways did the best job getting passengers to their destinations with the least hassle, private researchers who have analyzed federal data on airline performance said Monday....

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- With sick and dead dolphins turning up along Louisiana's coast, federal regulators are curbing an oil and natural gas exploration company from doing seismic tests known to disturb marine mammals....

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- A JetBlue Airways captain charged with disrupting a Las Vegas-bound flight after he left the cockpit screaming about religion and terrorists should remain in federal custody without bond, prosecutors told a judge Monday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton said he believes President Barack Obama can win re-election if he can persuade voters he steadied a shaky economy....

MIAMI (AP) -- Burger King is trying to revive its ailing empire with a rival's recipe for success....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jailers may perform invasive strip searches on people arrested even for minor offenses, an ideologically divided Supreme Court ruled Monday, the conservative majority declaring that security trumps privacy in an often dangerous environment....

LUFKIN, Texas (AP) -- A former Texas nurse convicted of killing five dialysis patients by injecting them with bleach should spend the rest of her life in prison with no chance of parole, jurors who earlier convicted the woman of capital murder said Monday....

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Minnesota family and some friends were taking a spring break vacation to see a motocross race when the motor home in which they were traveling crashed in northeast Kansas, killing five family members, a family friend said Monday....