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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has announced that five states that were finalists in an earlier competition for millions in federal dollars to improve early learning programs will be able to compete for a new pot of money....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Dozens of bomb threats at the University of Pittsburgh, including at least four on Monday, have prompted professors to start holding classes outside and forced security officials to implement new building access measures and offer a $50,000 reward...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lakeside gardens, dining rooms hovering over water, grassy new amphitheaters and underground pavilions at the foot of the Washington Monument have emerged as finalists in a design competition to overhaul neglected sites on the National Mall....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lakeside gardens, dining rooms hovering over water, grassy new amphitheaters and underground pavilions at the foot of the Washington Monument have emerged as finalists in a design competition to overhaul neglected sites on the National Mall....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Two firefighters who were battling a massive blaze at an abandoned warehouse Monday were killed when an adjacent furniture store they were inspecting collapsed, burying them in a pile of debris, authorities said....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The mysterious deaths of millions of bats in the United States and Canada over the past several years were caused by a fungus that hitchhiked from Europe, scientists reported Monday....

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Two firefighters were killed battling a massive blaze at an abandoned warehouse Monday after an adjacent furniture store they were inspecting collapsed, burying them in a pile of debris, authorities said....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is expressing outrage that Syrian troops fired into a refugee camp in neighboring Turkey. It says the cross-border attack coupled with incidents elsewhere bodes ill for a U.N.-brokered plan to end the violence....

ATLANTA (AP) -- More than $1 billion has been spent over the past decade searching for the causes of autism. In some ways, the research looks like a long-running fishing expedition, with a focus on everything from genetics to the age of the father, the weight of the mother, and how close a child lives to a freeway....

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (AP) -- Three adults were killed early Monday at an in-home day care in a suburb northwest of Minneapolis, and a nearby college was locked down as police searched for a suspect who fled on a bicycle....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Two Oklahoma men suspected in a shooting rampage that left three people dead and terrorized Tulsa's African-American community appeared in court Monday and had bond set at more than $9 million each....

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Taunts of "baby killer" and "butcher" still echo in Bill Baird's ears, nearly five decades after he began fighting for birth control and abortion rights....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- If Trayvon Martin's family sues over his death, they might not target George Zimmerman but instead the homeowners association of the neighborhood where the shooting happened and Zimmerman lived....

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- If Trayvon Martin's family sues over his death, they might not target George Zimmerman but instead the homeowners association of the neighborhood where the shooting happened and Zimmerman lived....

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say they fear a western Indiana man may have coerced hundreds of teenage boys into recording and sending him sexually explicit images in what could be the largest U.S. case of online sexual extortion of children....

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- A Kansas military boarding school that has settled nine abuse lawsuits since 2006 has asked a court to dismiss the latest one, which accuses the school of allowing and encouraging older students to discipline younger ones by beating and otherwise abusing them....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It has been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lakeside gardens, dining rooms hovering over water, grassy new amphitheaters and underground pavilions at the foot of the Washington Monument have emerged as finalists in a design competition to overhaul neglected sites on the National Mall....

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Two Oklahoma men accused in a rampage that left three people dead have been charged with murder....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- It has been so warm in the United States this year, especially in March, that national records were not just broken, they were deep-fried....