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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee looking into a flawed gun-smuggling probe in Arizona announced Monday that it will consider holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress next week for failing to produce some documents the panel is seeking....

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A paroled gang member is the suspect in a late-night weekend assault that left four people dead in a Sacramento home, including the gunman, police said Monday....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The National Park Service is commemorating the anniversary of one of the most fabled stories to come out of the federal prison on Alcatraz Island....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. team that tried for more than a month to negotiate a reopening of blocked Pakistani supply routes into Afghanistan is coming home without an agreement, U.S. officials said Monday....

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The names of the two little girls are an enduring mystery, their images found among crumpled bodies on Civil War battlefields. Each is posed primly on chairs, ringlets cascading past the rouged cheeks of one, the other dressed in a frilly hoop dress....

SAN GABRIEL, Calif. (AP) -- U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson suffered a seizure in connection with two Los Angeles-area traffic crashes that led to a felony hit-and-run citation over the weekend, officials said Monday....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The lead prosecutor called Jerry Sandusky a serial predator in opening statements Monday, while a defense lawyer said the young men accusing the former Penn State assistant football coach of sexual abuse had a financial interest in the outcome....

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A man hitchhiking across the country and writing a memoir called "The Kindness of America" was injured in a random drive-by shooting along a rural highway near northeastern Montana's booming Bakken oil patch, authorities said Monday....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are calling it "Taxmageddon," the big tax increase awaiting nearly every American family at the end of the year, when a long list of tax cuts is scheduled to expire unless Congress acts....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal challenging President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship and his eligibility to serve as commander in chief....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal challenging President Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship and his eligibility to serve as commander in chief....

NEW YORK (AP) -- A labor union and an independent group supporting President Barack Obama's re-election are running Spanish language ads in three battleground states targeting Republican Mitt Romney....

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- The lead prosecutor opened former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky's trial Monday by introducing the jury to each alleged victim and giving a graphic description of the abuse they say he perpetrated on them....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take a new look at the rights of foreign prisoners held for the past decade at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba....

LAPORTE, Colo. (AP) -- The sun rose behind a wall of smoke from a large wildfire burning out of control in northern Colorado, while an unchecked blaze choked a small community in southern New Mexico as authorities in both regions on Monday battled fires....

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) -- In a June 11 story about conservatives' growing optimism about Republican Mitt Romney's prospects in the November presidential election, The Associated Press misidentified David Hirtz as an active FBI agent. He is retired....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of violent crimes reported to police across the country fell 4 percent last year when compared to 2010, the fifth straight year of declines....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of violent crimes reported to police across the country fell 4 percent last year when compared to 2010, the fifth straight year of declines....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of violent crimes reported to police across the country fell 4 percent last year when compared to 2010, the fifth straight year of declines....

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) -- The man suspected in a weekend party shooting that killed three people and wounded three others was previously arrested on charges involving guns and twice sued for child support, according to court records....