NATIONAL/WORLD NEWS

President Barack Obama has announced which groups will get the $1.4 million he received for winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

A police official says U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband.

The community organizing group ACORN has settled a lawsuit by agreeing to give up its Ohio business license and not return under another name.

Advocacy groups say President Barack Obama has assured them that he remains committed to a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration laws. But what can be accomplished on the issue this year remains unclear.

Police say a New York woman who claimed her Toyota Prius accelerated on its own was on her way to have its gas pedal checked at the time of the accident.

His father says Sharif Mobley is "no terrorist." But the FBI is looking into the case of the alleged al-Qaida member -- raised in New Jersey -- who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen.

Minneapolis Public Schools is on lockdown for the second day after a threat was made on a social networking site.

The House has voted to impeach a federal judge from Louisiana. A House Judiciary Committee task force charged District Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. with a long-standing pattern of corruption.

House Minority Leader John Boehner wants the House ethics panel probe of former Rep. Eric Massa to be reopened.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says when it comes to President Barack Obama's health care reform, there's "enough to move forward."

Rep. Bart Stupak has become the unofficial leader of a small but powerful bloc threatening to derail President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

Congressional probes, mushrooming lawsuits and a federal probe into
reporting of acceleration defects have raised the risk of criminal
charges for Toyota.

He chastised the media for focusing "24/7" on former Rep. Eric Massa of New York, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, at a time when lawmakers were debating the future of the war.

The Kansas City school board is closing nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat.

"Nowhere
is reform more needed than when it comes to our health care system," the President told a supportive crowd in St. Charles, Mo., just outside St.
Louis.

A spokesman says the U.S. is trying to understand why Israel would announce plans to enlarge a settlement in east Jerusalem -- a move that is being denounced by the U.S. and other nations -- while Vice President Joe Biden was in Israel promoting a new U.S.-sponsored peace effort.

Four workers are safe after getting stuck on a drawbridge that went up unexpectedly in Florida.

The Food and Drug Administration says a Medtronic nerve stimulating implant failed to significantly reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.

House Democratic leaders have announced that they will ban the much-criticized practice of using annual spending bills to direct pet projects to for-profit companies that often return the favor with campaign contributions.

Police investigating the latest report of a sticky accelerator say it's lucky the car only hit a wall.