WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer’s research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation….

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Obama to seek more Alzheimer’s research money

WASHINGTON (AP) — Additional U.S. sanctions on Iran are more significant for their timing than their immediate effect on Iran’s economy, coming as the United States and its allies are arguing that Israel should hold off on any military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities to allow more time for sanctions to work….

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New US sanctions on Iran aim to head off Israel

WASHINGTON (AP) — After five years of legislative struggling, 23 stopgap measures and a two-week shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Congress finally has passed a bill aimed at prodding the nation’s aviation system into a new high-tech era in which satellites are central to air traffic control and piloted planes share the skies with unmanned drones….

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Congress OKs bill to prod US aviation into new era

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The entire staff at an elementary school where two teachers were arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct will be removed while the school district investigates, the Los Angeles school superintendent said Monday night….

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Staff to be removed during probe at LA school

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Unified School District superintendent says the faculty at Miramonte Elementary School will be removed following allegations of child sex abuse against two teachers….

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Official: Faculty to be removed at LA school

GRAHAM, Wash. (AP) — Josh Powell’s boys were coming for a visit, and he had preparations to make….

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Autopsies: Powell boys suffered ‘chop injuries’

PORTSMOUTH, Va (Reuters) – Virginia lawmakers on Monday moved toward lifting a 19-year-old law limiting handgun purchases to one per month, despite a recent history of campus shootings and critics’ concerns that the state will become a “gunrunners’ paradise.”

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Virginia Senate votes to repeal limit on gun purchases

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the return of a 16th Century Baroque painting depicting Christ carrying the cross to the heirs of a Jewish man who died shortly before the German occupation of France in World War II….

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US judge: Baroque artwork to return to man’s heirs

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – A 26-year-old Ohio man pleaded guilty on Monday to federal charges of helping raise money for al-Shabaab rebels in Somalia, prosecutors said.

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Ohio man pleads guilty to supporting al-Shabaab

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jack Abramoff, the former lobbyist at the center of a U.S.

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Former lobbyist Abramoff balks at naming ex-associates