Posted: 9:32 PM The reflecting pool on the National Mall in front of the Lincoln Memorial is about to reopen after a two-year, $34 million reconstruction.

Posted: 9:22 PM NASA's Curiosity rover has beamed back its first color photo from the ancient crater where it landed.

Posted: 9:15 PM Two people were killed and 15 injured at an apartment building fire in the Denver suburb of Aurora that left many people to be rescued from the upper floors.

Posted: 7:23 AM United Nations officials say at least 22,300 Iraqis who fled to Syria years before have poured back into Iraq in the past three weeks to escape the Syrian civil war.

Posted: 7:12 AM Police say a 6-year-old girl was pulled to safety after boaters spotted her clinging to a corpse in an upstate New York lake.

Posted: 7:54 AM President Barack Obama says NASA's successful mission to put a robotic rover on Mars is an "unprecedented feat of technology."

Posted: 7:47 AM An Ohio man is set to be arraigned on a charge that he shot his wife in a hospital intensive care unit.

Updated: 2:34 PM A Milwaukee hospital is treating three victims of a shooting at a Sikh temple south of the city, all in critical condition.

Posted: 6:51 AM U.S. officials say the Obama administration is giving $12 million in new humanitarian aid for beleaguered Syrian civilians as a civil war rages between rebels and the Assad regime in Aleppo and elsewhere.

Posted: 6:46 AM Gay rights activists and other supporters of marriage equality plan a national "Kiss In" at Chick-fil-A restaurants Friday to protest the fast-food chain owners' opposition to same-sex unions.

Posted: 9:35 AM The FAA is investigating how three commuter jets narrowly avoided a midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside the nation's capital.

Posted: 3:21 PM Home prices rose in May from April in every city tracked by a leading index, a sign that increasing sales and tight inventories are supporting a modest housing recovery.

Posted: 12:22 PM A new poll shows that the partisan gap over same-sex marriage continues to widen, with 65 percent of Democrats now supporting it compared to 24 percent of Republicans.

Updated: 11:10 AM A Deloitte survey has found about nine out of ten consumers plan to spend the same or more on back-to-school shopping this year.

Posted: 2:40 PM A federal judge is allowing Arizona's new ban on abortions starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy to take effect.

Posted: 2:25 PM A Democratic official says support for gay marriage is set to be included in the official party platform adopted at this summer's convention.

Posted: 2:18 PM Colorado prosecutors charged the suspect in the Aurora movie theater shooting with multiple counts for each victim to create more options during sentencing, if he's convicted.

Posted: 10:21 PM A 12-year-old girl whose parents were slain is back in Arkansas after her adopted brother took her to Memphis.

Updated: 11:43 PM Police have arrested and charged a 19-year-old Kent State University student who posted a message on Twitter saying he planned to "shoot up" the campus.

Posted: 9:50 PM After 97 years, Our Lady of Lourdes School was closing -- enrollment had dwindled to just 35 children at the East Los Angeles school.

Posted: 9:45 PM New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is getting some backing for his campaign to help promote breastfeeding.

Posted: 9:38 PM President Bill Clinton will play a prominent role at the Democratic National convention this summer, several Obama campaign and party officials say.

Posted: 9:34 PM Vice President Joe Biden says Mitt Romney doesn't treat public education as a priority and distrusts the hardworking teachers who struggle to create opportunity for the nation's young people.

Updated: 6:04 PM State and county fairs in the sweltering and drought-stricken Midwest may see smaller livestock and produce this year.

Posted: 3:52 PM Mourners were packing churches in Ohio and Texas to remember two victims of the shooting spree at a Colorado movie theater.