The uncle of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect killed in a gun battle with police says he is arranging for his nephew's burial because religion and tradition call for him to be buried.

The Syrian state news agency SANA, citing initial reports, says Israeli missiles have targeted a military research center near the capital Damascus.

A big cool-down in weather is calming a huge wildfire burning in Southern California's coastal mountains, and firefighters are working to cut miles of containment lines while conditions are favorable.

President Barack Obama is back in the U.S. after a trip that took him to Mexico and Costa Rica over three days.

One of Disneyland's most popular rides has reopened after the company declined to appeal a workplace safety case.

Newtown, Conn., officials are meeting to discuss what to do with the elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot to death in December, but they might not vote.

A Massachusetts funeral home director is scrambling to find a cemetery that will bury a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Activists say thousands of Sunni Muslims are fleeing a city on Syria's Mediterranean coast following the alleged mass killing of Sunni villagers by regime troops and pro-government militiamen.

Kyrgyzstan's emergencies minister says the bodies of two American crew members have been found after a U.S. military refueling plane crashed in rugged mountains, while the search for the third crew member continues.

President Barack Obama says he supports recognizing gay unions in a broad immigration bill pending in Congress but won't say whether he would sign legislation that fails to do so.

A death certificate says a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso.

Newtown, Conn., officials are meeting to discuss what to do with the elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot to death in December, but they might not vote.

With the Dow Jones industrial average breaking through 15,000, it's natural to worry that stocks have gone up too far. But higher priced stocks aren't necessarily overpriced. They may still be a good deal if corporate earnings are rising fast, and you think that trend is likely to continue.

A U.S. military spokesman says the number of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has held steady for nearly a week.

The Homeland Security Department ordered border agents "effective immediately" to verify that every international student who arrives in the U.S. has a valid student visa, according to an internal memorandum obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The new procedure is the government's first security change directly related to the Boston bombings.

Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz says the federal government should put its efforts into prosecuting criminals who illegally buy guns and not into trying to pass new gun control laws.

CHICAGO (AP) - An audit of Chicago's animal shelter has found that the stray, lost and impounded dogs and cats aren't always getting of care they need.

PHOENIX (AP) - Jodi Arias' defense attorneys are set for closing arguments in a case that has captured headlines worldwide with tales of sex, lies and a bloody killing.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Gov. Jerry Brown is warning that the plan he's submitted to federal judges to ease prison overcrowding in the state would undermine public safety. But he has filed the plan anyway under protest and a deadline.

An Illinois fugitive was arrested Thursday evening on a Madison highway after a daylong manhunt in south-central Wisconsin that drove several local schools to lock down for hours and left neighbors on edge, police said.

Steven Spielberg has his sights set on his next project, a movie about former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle.

Rhode Island has become the 10th state to allow same-sex couples to marry following Gov. Lincoln Chafee's signature of gay marriage legislation.

Fire officials say they will dispatch a hazardous materials team to deal with a store of highly toxic pesticides that have caught fire in a massive Southern California wildfire.

Doctors say a Utah soccer referee remains in a coma after being punched by a teenage player unhappy with one of his calls, and his family says their only hope is for a miracle.

A jury has finished its second full day of deliberations in the murder trial of a Philadelphia abortion doctor without reaching a verdict.