Updated: 8:11 AM Officials familiar with the decision tell The Associated Press the IOC has stripped Lance Armstrong of his bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics because of his involvement in doping.

Updated: 8:09 AM The Colorado movie theater where a gunman killed 12 people and injured 70 others is reopening with a private event for victims and officials.

Updated: 9:41 AM Federal officials say they are temporarily grounding Boeing's 787 Dreamliners until the risk of possible battery fires is addressed.

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Updated: 12:07 PM President Barack Obama is taking 23 executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence that don't require congressional action, including measures to encourage schools to hire police officers, increase research on gun violence and improve efforts to prosecute gun crime.

Posted: 10:50 AM The White House says a National Rifle Association video referencing President Barack Obama's daughters is "repugnant and cowardly."

Posted: 10:20 AM Some parents in Newtown, Conn., are urging local education officials to consider stationing police at all town schools as they put together their budget proposal.

Posted: 9:32 AM The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he'll begin hearings in two weeks on gun safety proposals, as President Barack Obama pushes for fast action.

Posted: 9:30 AM Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley will pay a combined $557 million to settle federal complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been allowed to stay in their homes.

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Posted: 8:55 AM Families of the victims of last month's shooting attack at a Connecticut elementary school have been invited to the White House today to see President Barack Obama outline an effort aimed at reducing gun violence.

Updated: 8:23 AM An administration official says Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will leave the Obama administration in March.

Updated: 8:27 AM Police say two people were killed when a helicopter crashed during rush hour in central London after apparently hitting a construction crane on top of a building.

Posted: 10:07 PM Officials say the Senate is likely to accept the measure early next week.

Updated: 9:22 PM Sheriff Tim Mueller of Linn County said politicians are "attempting to exploit the deaths of innocent victims" by supporting laws that would harm law-abiding Americans.

Posted: 8:16 PM The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon at Hazard Community & Technical college in Hazard, Ky.

Posted: 3:50 PM The arrest occurred Tuesday afternoon, just hours before Gov. Scott Walker was scheduled to deliver his State of the State speech to lawmakers at the Capitol.

Posted: 3:46 PM Federal Judge Paul Gardephe said jury selection in the trial of Gilberto Valle will begin on Feb. 11.

Updated: 3:31 PM New York's Legislature has passed the nation's toughest gun control law and the first since the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.

Updated: 12:51 PM Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a new search feature on the world's biggest online social network.

Posted: 9:09 AM Officials of a town near Newtown, Conn., are renaming a local school for a resident killed in the massacre there and hailed as a hero.

Updated: 8:58 AM Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer and the nation's largest private employer, is making a pledge to hire every veteran who wants a job.

Posted: 8:42 AM More than three dozen students have spent the night in a hospital after carbon monoxide leaked at their Nashville private school.

Posted: 7:50 PM A Middlesex Superior Court judge found Harvard isn't liable for three New York men who used a student's ID to get into a dorm and fatally shoot Justin Cosby of Cambridge.

Posted: 7:48 PM Nineteen-year-old William Paul was charged with misdemeanor assault on a female by aggressive physical force.