SAUSALITO— An inmate who boasted of his mob connections is up for parole Tuesday, but Marin County prosecutors and relatives of his victims say the convicted killer should stay behind bars.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Officially, the state of Alaska has not decided whether to back a federal proposal to list polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

LOS BANOS — The San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex, where tule elk bugle across grassy uplands and migratory waterfowl splash in languid sloughs, has been run for years out of a strip mall 12 miles away.

LONDON — The moon darkened, reddened, and turned shades of gray and orange Saturday night during the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years, thrilling stargazers and astronomers around the world.

WASHINGTON — Think of the uses of $300 billion, the annual gap between what taxpayers owe and what they pay.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers promised a quick response and sought an independent commission as they expressed outrage Sunday over the poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.

BUENA PARK — The white supremacist gang Public Enemy No. 1 began two decades ago as a group of teenage punk-rock fans from upper-middle class bedroom communities in Southern California.

President Chen Shui-bian made unusually strong pro-independence remarks Sunday in a message apparently aimed at provoking rival China and shoring up his base.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. and Iraqi troops poured into Baghdad’s main Shiite militia stronghold Sunday, encountering no resistance in the one-time Sadr City combat zones but testing the Shiites’ commitment to the U.S.-promoted campaign to drive militants from the capital.

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says the economy is healthy, inflation seems under control and the U.S. should not perceive China as an economic enemy.

NEW YORK — NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon is quitting the civil rights organization, leaving after just 19 months at the helm, he told The Associated Press on Sunday.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who resigned as a vice presidential nominee in 1972 after it was revealed he had been hospitalized for depression, died Sunday. He was 77.