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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Under pressure from the White House, the Democratic-controlled Senate on Thursday blocked a Republican bid to speed approval of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the Obama administration's go-to civil rights groups in its efforts to build relationships with American Muslims is suing the New York Police Department over its surveillance programs, some of which were paid for with federal money....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Thursday he's disturbed by what he's read about the New York Police Department conducting surveillance of mosques and Islamic student organizations in New Jersey....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has rejected several Republican-backed attempts to overturn President Barack Obama's environmental and energy policies as it deals with a bill to keep federal aid flowing to transportation projects across the country....

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Gunfire at a psychiatric clinic at the University of Pittsburgh killed two people and injured seven others Thursday afternoon, the university's medical center said....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic-controlled Senate has rejected a Republican bid to speed approval of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- They've long been known as devil dogs, leathernecks and "the first to fight." But U.S. Marines, with their self-described expertise in "killing people and breaking things," now want to promote their kinder side as well....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After reporting that it had found 102 more misplaced headstones or markers and 21 graves missing markers at its cemeteries, the Veterans Affairs Department told lawmakers Thursday that it's trying to prevent future errors by requiring contractors to keep headstones at gravesites undergoing renovations and by conducting daily inspections....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House officials were in close contact with the Agriculture Department in the hours leading up to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's decision to fire USDA employee Shirley Sherrod in 2010, according to nearly 2,000 pages of internal emails released by the administration....

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Natural causes led to the death of a former Philadelphia archdiocese leader the day after he was ruled competent to testify at the child endangerment trial of a longtime aide, according to a county coroner who investigated after a suburban prosecutor deemed the timing peculiar....

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic and became a legend....

NEW YORK (AP) -- In his Twitter postings, the elite computer hacker known as "Sabu" urged followers to resist the U.S. government and its agents....

NEW YORK (AP) -- In his Twitter postings, the elite computer hacker known as "Sabu" urged followers to resist the U.S. government and its agents....

NEW YORK (AP) -- In his Twitter postings, the elite computer hacker known as "Sabu" urged followers to resist the U.S. government and its agents....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Showing that they can on occasion work together, House lawmakers on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a package of bills making it easier for small businesses and startups to raise the capital they need to grow and hire new workers....

HOUSTON (AP) -- The jury that convicted former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford of operating a massive Ponzi scheme found Thursday that there is sufficient evidence that $330 million in frozen foreign bank accounts he controlled money he stole from investors, clearing the way for U.S. authorities to go after the funds....

SPLENDORA, Texas (AP) -- The abandoned school bus had no engine and no front wheels. But there were crude curtains in the windows, an air conditioner and even bunk beds....

OAKLAND, Pa. (AP) -- Someone opened fire Thursday afternoon at a psychiatric clinic outside Pittsburgh, injuring several people, police said....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eight Muslims filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in New Jersey to force the New York Police Department to end its surveillance and other intelligence-gathering practices targeting Muslims in the years after the 2001 terrorist attacks. The lawsuit alleged that the police activities were unconstitutional because they focused on people's religion, national origin and race....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday he's disturbed by what he's read about the New York Police Department conducting surveillance of mosques and Islamic student organizations in New Jersey....