STORM LEAVES NORTHEAST SOGGY, WINDBLOWN AND DARK (AP) AP - Utility crews pushed through fallen trees and windblown debris to reach downed power lines Sunday, working to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses as strong winds and heavy rain that wreaked havoc in parts of the Northeast pushed on into New England. READ MORE»

US MOM: DAUGHTER HELD IN IRELAND 'LOST HER MIND' (AP) AP - Before her daughter disappeared last fall, Christine Mott recalls that the 31-year-old who had been held in connection with an alleged assassination plot announced she had converted to Islam and told her family they'd go to hell if they didn't follow in her steps. READ MORE»

AP EXCLUSIVE: PENTAGON GUN WAS FROM TENN. POLICE (AP) AP - Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn. READ MORE»

BOEHNER DETERMINED TO KILL DEM HEALTH CARE BILL (AP) AP - The top House Republican says the GOP can defeat the Democratic health care bill that may reach the House floor this coming week. READ MORE»

SOCIAL SECURITY TO START CASHING UNCLE SAM'S IOUS (AP) AP - The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration. READ MORE»

TALIBAN: KANDAHAR BOMBINGS A 'WARNING' TO NATO (AP) AP - The Taliban on Sunday called their deadly bomb attacks on the southern city of Kandahar a warning to NATO's top general that the insurgents were ready for the war's next major offensive in their heartland. READ MORE»

LESBIAN SGT. DISCHARGED AFTER POLICE TELL MILITARY (AP) AP - Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian. The 28-year-old's honorable discharge under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy came only after police officers in Rapid City, S.D., saw an Iowa marriage certificate in her home and told the nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base. READ MORE»

STUDY: MINI CLIP IS SAFER THAN HEART-VALVE SURGERY (AP) AP - Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as effective as surgery, doctors reported Sunday. READ MORE»

PAKISTANI JETS POUND TALIBAN HIDE-OUTS; 17 KILLED (AP) AP - Pakistani fighter jets pounded Taliban hide-outs near the Afghan border Sunday, killing 17 insurgents, local officials said. READ MORE»