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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.

Posted: 7:45 PM Bryan Oliver pleaded not guilty Monday in Kern County Superior Court to two counts of premeditated attempted murder and three counts of assault with a firearm in the attack.

Posted: 4:15 PM The strike will affect about 152,000 New York City public school students.

Posted: 12:43 PM Former President George H.W. Bush has left a Houston hospital where he spent nearly two months recovering from an illness that began with a bronchitis-related cough.

Posted: 12:22 PM Speaker John Boehner says the GOP-controlled House will "do its job" and pass legislation to lift the nation's borrowing cap and keep the government running, but will insist that Democrats accept new spending controls.

Posted: 11:51 AM The Associated Press has learned that suicides in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year.

Posted: 11:14 AM President Barack Obama says he's reviewing a list of proposals from Vice President Joe Biden about how to reduce gun violence and expects to present specifics later this week.

Posted: 11:08 AM A new report shows coroner's officials amended Natalie Wood's death certificate based on unanswered questions about bruises on her upper body.

Posted: 11:05 AM President Barack Obama says Congress' failure to raise the government's borrowing authority would delay payments of benefits to veterans and Social Security recipients.

Posted: 11:01 AM Robin Roberts made a live appearance on " Good Morning America" today, announcing plans to return to the show.