By MARIA SUDEKUM (OVERLAND PARK, Kan., AP) — Authorities say there is enough evidence to warrant a hate-crimes prosecution in the shooting spree that killed three people at a Jewish… Read more »

By MEGHAN BARR (NEW YORK, AP) — The Pulitzer Prizes, journalism’s highest honor, will be announced Monday. Among the potential contenders are reporters who revealed the massive U.S. government surveillance… Read more »

By KARL RITTER (BERLIN, AP) — After racing against the clock in an all-night session, the U.N.’s expert panel on climate change was putting the final touches Saturday on a… Read more »

(SAN DIEGO, AP) — A San Diego woman distraught over losing out on her family’s dream house carried out a perverse revenge scheme to have the home’s new owner raped,… Read more »

By EMILY SCHMALL (DALLAS, AP) — Dozens of families who lost loved ones during Sept. 11, the mass shooting at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook elementary school and other attacks are trying… Read more »

By JERI CLAUSING (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a studio that refused to photograph a lesbian couple’s commitment ceremony, letting stand a… Read more »

By ANTHONY McCARTNEY (LOS ANGELES, AP) — Mickey Rooney’s approach to life was simple: “Let’s put on a show!” He spent nine decades doing it, on the big screen, on… Read more »

(BOSTON, AP) — A Saudi Arabian man injured in the Boston Marathon bombings has filed a defamation lawsuit against Glenn Beck, accusing the conservative commentator of calling him “the money… Read more »

By JASON DEAREN   (SAN FRANCISCO, AP) — Pacific Gas and Electric was charged on Tuesday with federal felony counts involving safety violations linked to a 2010 natural gas pipeline… Read more »

By LISA BAUMANN and MANUEL VALDES (DARRINGTON, Wash., AP) — Estimated financial losses from the deadly Washington mudslide that has killed at least 24 people have reached $10 million, Gov. Jay… Read more »