WASHINGTON (AP) -- Birth control that you must take every single day? A more goof-proof option that costs a lot upfront but then works for several years? Or something in between?

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly on Thursday challenged city council members who want to create an inspector general to regulate the department's surveillance of Muslims, saying his department needs no additional oversight.

PHOENIX (AP) -- Women in Arizona trying to get reimbursed for birth control drugs through their employer-provided health plan could be required to prove that they are taking it for a medical reason such as acne, rather than to prevent pregnancy.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Actor George Clooney and his father have been arrested at a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Rep. Donald Payne was a modest man who favored quiet persuasion over bombast, qualities that didn't detract from his effectiveness as an advocate for the most vulnerable in the U.S. and abroad, former friends and colleagues recalled at his funeral Wednesday.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- School districts soon will be able to opt out of a common ammonia-treated ground beef filler critics have dubbed "pink slime."

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Federal regulators are sending a special team to investigate the San Onofre nuclear power plant on the Southern California coast after tubes that carry radioactive water failed a pressure test.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Bank of America is providing mortgage relief to about 200,000 homeowners.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Goldman Sachs, arguably the most storied investment bank on Wall Street, has been compared to a money-sucking vampire squid and called the evil empire of finance. On Wednesday it got an entirely different kind of black eye - delivered by one of its own.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly 4 million people across the United States, from Los Angeles to much of the East Coast, live in homes more prone to flooding from rising seas fueled by global warming, according to a new method of looking at flood risk published in two scientific papers.