NEW YORK - Music manager Allen Klein, a no-holds-barred businessman who bulldozed his way into and out of deals with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, died Saturday, a publicist for his company said. He was 77.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, President Barack Obama’s health policy czar, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.

Nancy-Ann DeParle, President Barack Obama’s health policy czar, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistle-blower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University.

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan - Thousands of U.S. Marines descended upon the volatile Helmand River valley in helicopters and armored convoys this morning, mounting an operation that represents the first large-scale test of the U.S. military’s new counter-insurgency strategy in Afghanistan.

Cookie Monster is planning to bake 233 cookies for America’s birthday celebration on Saturday - one for each year. "And me going to eat them all!" he said as he talked about preparations for "A Capitol Fourth," the annual concert on the Mall in Washington that will be broadcast live Saturday on PBS.

LOS ANGELES - Nearly 800,000 calls were received by a federal hot line this week from people confused about the nationwide move on Friday to drop analog TV signals and broadcast only in digital.

GULFPORT, Miss. - James Johnson can look across a grassy field here and see acres of empty pastel "Mississippi cottages," each house an architect’s vision of how government can provide safe, low-cost and permanent housing to families made homeless by Hurricane Katrina nearly four years ago.

WASHINGTON - They came by the hundreds, from Florida and Ohio, New York and Texas, passing through the same entrance at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum where two days earlier security officers shot a man who had gunned down one of their own. The museum was closed Thursday in honor of Stephen T. Johns, who died from his wounds, and an avowed white supremacist has been charged. For many visitors, the reopening Friday was an opportunity to make a statement of defiance against intolerance.

WASHINGTON - New labels on popular asthma drugs like Merck’s Singulair must highlight language about suicidal behavior, depression and anxiety seen in a small number of patients, federal regulators said Friday. After 15 months of investigation, the Food and Drug Administration said Merck & Co. Inc., AstraZeneca and Cornerstone Therapeutics will have to raise label warnings about psychiatric problems reported by a handful of patients taking their drugs.

Five people shot in Conn. pizza parlor
HARTFORD, Conn. - Police say five people were shot in a Connecticut pizza shop, and one of the victims is hospitalized in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the back.