LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge said Thursday he was inclined to unseal portions of a choreographer's court filings alleging he was abused by Michael Jackson.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday passed a $45 billion measure boosting the Homeland Security Department's budget by about 2 percent above spending levels imposed by an ongoing round of automatic budgets cuts.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila said Thursday they are divorcing after nearly 30 years of marriage, making the announcement on state television after attending a ballet performance at the Kremlin.

By Dan Kelley PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Borbor Davis' family dialed his cell phone every hour, hoping its ring would be heard by rescuers searching through the rubble of a building that collapsed on his workplace in Philadelphia. But the cell phone went unanswered as darkness fell on Wednesday. Authorities later said Davis' body had been found buried under the debris. Davis, 68, was among six people killed when a building under demolition collapsed on a neighboring Salvation Army Thrift Store at 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday. Fourteen people were injured in the incident, one critically. ...

PARIS (AP) — Done with a dominating performance in the French Open semifinals, Serena Williams climbed the stairs leading from the locker room to the players' lounge, looking to give her mother a hug.

NEW YORK (AP) — In the latest sign that Americans are feeling better about the overall economy, stores across the country had a pickup in sales in May.

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Touting the need to give every child the tools for success, President Barack Obama on Thursday toured a North Carolina school where every student has a laptop and called for 99 percent of American students to be connected to super-fast Internet within five years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Frank Lautenberg on Thursday was remembered by Senate colleagues for his leadership and laughter during nearly three decades serving in the chamber.

WASHINGTON (AP) — America as a whole has regained all the household wealth it lost to the Great Recession and then some, thanks to higher stock and home prices.

We're down to 16 teams in the NCAA baseball tournament, and it'll be down to the final eight after this weekend. Here are 10 of the topics for this weekend's best-of-three super regionals, which will determine the field for the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., starting June 15.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Russell Brand has a "Messiah Complex," and he's taking it on the road.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Canadian restaurant manager is the first poker aficionado to be made a millionaire at this year's World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beef tenderized by machines before it is sold in grocery stores could soon carry labels warning customers to cook the meat thoroughly.

ROME (AP) — American sprinter Justin Gatlin handed world-record holder Usain Bolt a narrow defeat in the 100-meter race at the Golden Gala meet on Thursday.

By Elvina Nawaguna WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday thwarted two rival bills aimed at stopping interest rates on millions of federal student loans doubling in less than a month. The defeat of the Democrat and Republican bills will likely lead to a partisan showdown ahead of the July 1 deadline. Both sides agree student loan rates shouldn't go up. They remain gridlocked on a way to avert that. ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Archie's old Riverdale gang is headed to the big screen.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A second child at a Philadelphia hospital is asking a federal judge to order that he be put on the adult waiting list for a donated lung.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former employees of the National Security Agency say the publishing of a court order asking Verizon to hand over all its phone calling records for a three-month period opens a new window on an operation that has been in place for years and involves all major U.S. phone companies.

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia's Defense Ministry says at least six Georgian soldiers have been killed in an attack by insurgents in Afghanistan.

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market bounced around Thursday as traders reacted to news from Europe and looked ahead to the government's monthly employment report.