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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Lawmakers in California's Assembly will hit the campaign trail this year, touting their votes on all manner of bills. Can we believe them? What they say may not be a true reflection of the stand they took when the bill was being debated....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Two polls of New Yorkers offered conflicting views Tuesday about the police department's gathering of intelligence on Muslims as it guards the city against another terrorist attack....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A lawyer for an Algerian native accused of planning to blow up synagogues said Tuesday that her client was a mentally unstable man targeted by the New York Police Department as part of its "unconstitutional and illegal" surveillance of Muslims....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the middle of Sunshine Week, when news organizations and advocacy groups promote government transparency, the Obama administration urged Congress on Tuesday to keep secret a whole new category of information even under the Freedom of Information Act....

LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) -- A toddler whose body was found inside a septic tank behind her home, just hours after being reported missing by her mother, died of accidental drowning, an autopsy showed Tuesday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rare display of deal-making between Republicans and Democrats in a bitterly partisan election year, the Senate was poised Tuesday to pass an overhaul of highway and transit programs that would give states more flexibility in how they spend federal money and would step up the pace of road construction by shortening environmental reviews....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A woman accused of stabbing her 6-year-old daughter to death with scissors told police she had been taking a weight-loss product, had trouble sleeping for several days and felt an "evil" presence before the attack....

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale in Gettysburg National Military Park's visitors' center.

Dolls of John Wilkes Booth with a handgun were taken off bookstore shelves Saturday, a day after a reporter from Hanover's The Evening Sun ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Held hostage on her Connecticut estate, philanthropist Anne H. Bass received an injection from masked assailants who made a chilling ultimatum: Hand over millions of dollars for the antidote, or die from a deadly virus....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A man accused of crashing through a fence at the Philadelphia airport and speeding down a runway was having irrational thoughts that people were chasing him, his lawyer said....

LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) -- Authorities sought to answer Tuesday how a toddler ended up dead in a septic tank in the backyard of her home near the Jersey shore....

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A 27-year-old mother accused of stabbing her 6-year-old daughter to death with a pair of scissors told Las Vegas police she had been taking a weight-loss product, had trouble sleeping for several days and felt an evil presence before the attack....

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man is just a kid, not a criminal, his lawyer said Tuesday in closing arguments....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A 9-year-old autistic girl fatally shot her 7-year-old brother at the family's Arkansas apartment while their parents were signing paperwork at a leasing office, police said Tuesday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of college students could be in for a shock this summer. The interest rate on a popular federally subsidized student loan doubles in July unless Congress acts....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Prosecutors decided Tuesday not to play the video of an emaciated 15-year-old girl who told police that her father and stepmother kept her in a basement for years and starved her, after the judge said during a preliminary hearing for the parents that she had already watched the two-hour video....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate is ready to pass long-delayed legislation overhauling America's highway and transit systems, with lawmakers steering past partisan fights that have kept it sidelined....

MOUNT STERLING, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio officer whose use of a stun gun on a child resulted in the shutdown of a village police force said he shocked the boy twice as the 9-year-old lay on the floor with his hands underneath his body....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says Michelle Obama will lead the official U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the middle of Sunshine Week, a period dedicated to government openness, the Obama administration is urging Congress to change the Freedom of Information Act to keep secret new categories of information that it says have been put a risk by a Supreme Court ruling....