Posted: 11:16 AM The new College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta is scheduled to break ground on Monday in the city's downtown area.

Posted: 6:42 AM President Barack Obama will meet with police chiefs from three communities that have experienced mass shootings, part of his administration's push to address gun violence.

Posted: 6:41 AM A bipartisan group of senators has reached agreement on the principles of sweeping legislation to rewrite the nation's immigration laws.

Posted: 4:27 AM Two people have been rescued after their single-engine plane crashed and sank into the icy Hudson River off Yonkers.

Posted: 10:45 PM A pilot program designed to prevent criminals from becoming managers of a person's Social Security benefits has screened out dozens of people convicted of fraud and violence.

Posted: 9:17 PM A blaze raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, setting off a stampede that killed at least 245 people attending a university party, police and firefighters said. It appeared to be the world's deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade.

Posted: 9:15 PM Casey Anthony has filed for bankruptcy in Florida, claiming about $1,100 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities.

Posted: 9:11 PM Illinois is the fourth state to allow illegal immigrants to obtain a driver's license with a new law signed by the governor.

Posted: 5:52 PM French and Malian forces are pushing toward Timbuktu, as the two-week-long French military action gathers momentum against the Islamist extremists who have ruled northern Mali for more than nine months.

Posted: 5:45 PM Egypt's president has declared a 30-day state of emergency and curfew in the three Suez Canal provinces hit hardest by a wave of political violence that has left more than 50 dead in three days.

Posted: 5:05 PM Buying your own health insurance will never be the same. This fall, new insurance markets called exchanges will open in each state, marking the long-awaited and much-debated debut of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Posted: 5:03 PM Chicago authorities say seven people were killed and six wounded in gun violence in one day.

Posted: 5:00 PM The Coast Guard says a barge that hit a railroad bridge in Vicksburg, Miss., was carrying 80,000 gallons of light crude oil, but officials don't know how much has spilled into the Mississippi River.

Posted: 9:43 PM Police say a Franciscan friar accused of sexual abusing students at schools in two states killed himself at a western Pennsylvania monastery.

Posted: 9:42 PM Lawsuits over the birth control rule in the federal health care overhaul seem headed to the Supreme Court.

Posted: 9:41 PM The United States has decided to provide additional support to the French military in its war against Islamic militants in Mali by conducting aerial refueling missions.

Posted: 5:01 PM An attorney for Lance Armstrong told the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency the cyclist will cooperate with efforts to "clean up cycling," though it's the sport's governing body and world anti-doping officials who should take the lead.

Posted: 4:51 PM The hacker-activist group Anonymous says it hijacked the website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission to avenge the death of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist who committed suicide.

Posted: 4:47 PM Thousands of people have gathered in front of the Capitol for a march on Washington for gun control.

Posted: 10:25 PM Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is the latest Virginia Republican to oppose legislation in his state that would replace the state's winner-take-all method of apportioning presidential electoral votes with one that awards one vote to the winner of each congressional district.

Posted: 10:23 PM More than 2,000 people gathered Friday at one of Albuquerque's largest churches for a memorial service in honor of the New Mexico family of five who were gunned down in their home last weekend.

Posted: 10:18 PM San Francisco's district attorney won't file criminal charges against 49ers wide receiver Michael Crabtree after reviewing evidence of an alleged sexual assault in a hotel after the team's playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers.

Posted: 3:51 PM Outgoing Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner thinks the U.S. economy will strengthen this year - as long as Congress avoids cutting spending too deeply in a budget deal and Europe's economy gradually improves.

Posted: 3:49 PM The Obama administration says it is exasperated with Iran for holding up new talks with world powers over its disputed nuclear program.

Posted: 6:59 AM Vice President Joe Biden is taking the White House's campaign for gun control on the road to Virginia.