BEIJING (AP) -- China wants to convert some of its mountain of U.S. government debt into investment in renovating American roads and subways, the commerce minister said Friday.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Authorities have made an arrest in the shooting death of a man near the former Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The nation's first free broadcast network targeting African-American audiences arrived in the nation's fourth-largest media market on Thursday.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A black college student who drew complaints for displaying a Confederate flag in his dorm room window said he sees the banner as a symbol of Southern pride and not racism.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A former lawyer has been sentenced to five months in federal prison for running a fraud scheme that paid women to have babies for sale.

The House Ethics Committee announced Friday it will continue its investigation into allegations Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. or someone acting on his behalf offered to raise campaign cash for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for a Senate appointment in 2008.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's little doubt President Barack Obama has won high esteem among Native Americans by breaking through a logjam of inaction on issues that matter to them.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired two Ku Klux Klan robes that will be exhibited in its future home on the National Mall.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union says the FBI has been using community outreach programs, which are intended to build partnerships, to collect information on Muslims.

NEW YORK (AP) -- An undercover police officer who touched off the fatal shooting of an unarmed man outside a rowdy strip club after his bachelor party should be fired, according to a recommendation made Wednesday by the police department official in charge of departmental discipline.