WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The billionaire investor George Soros has added his voice to a heated but little-noticed debate over the role of Israel's powerful lobby in shaping Washington policy in a way critics say hurts U.S. national interests and stifles debate.

AP - Five years after his arrest at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, Jose Padilla heads to court — but with no mention of the 'dirty bomb' allegations that first made headlines.

AP - Gov. Jon S. Corzine faces more surgery on his broken leg, the third operation he's needed since an auto crash left him in critical condition.

AP - Just like when he killed a little girl eight years ago when he was 12 years old, Lionel Tate wants a trial — even though his lawyers have told him it's a bad idea.

AP - Clinical social worker Vicki Johnson has written an advice column for Fort Campbell's military newspaper for nearly two years, giving soldiers and their families an outlet for sharing their problems anonymously.

AP - This city has dozens of small public schools that focus on themes — sports careers, the arts and social justice. Few generate controversy.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - U.S. box office sales ought to tip the scales at slightly less than $10 billion this year, an all-time record, followed by a couple years of anemic growth as higher ticket prices offset declining attendance.

AP - In an underground room concealed beneath a shed behind his home, Kenneth Glenn Hinson is accused of raping two teenagers after kidnapping them and keeping them bound.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Icy rain and gale-force winds pelted the U.S. Northeast on Sunday, caking upper New York state and northern Vermont in rare April snow, delaying flights and putting emergency crews on alert across the region.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office on Monday said Education Finance Partners, a lender accused of paying kickbacks to 60 colleges that referred students to its loans, agreed to pay $2.5 million to resolve the state's investigation into its practices.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office said on Monday it expanded a sweeping investigation into the student loan industry with subpoenas and information requests to 13 more lenders, including some of the largest U.S. banks.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Discount carrier JetBlue Airways Corp. said it plans to cancel 44 flights on Monday as it regroups after heavy rain and gale-force winds battered the U.S. Northeast.

AP - Shootings at a dorm and classroom on the Virginia Tech campus Monday left at least one person dead and one wounded, and a suspect was arrested, authorities said.

AP - Prosecutors can narrowly refer to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks but cannot suggest alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla and two co-defendants were involved, a federal judge ruled Monday as jury selection got under way.

AP - Hundreds of residents were out of their homes Monday because of the threat that an unstable earth dam could collapse.

AP - A supermarket employee was fatally shot Monday outside the store where he worked in the produce department for 30 years, police said.

AP - Two young brothers were pulled unconscious from a murky backyard pool, and one died later while the other was hospitalized in critical condition.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 22 people, including the suspected gunman, were killed and many others were wounded at Virginia Tech university on Monday in the deadliest campus shooting incident in U.S. history.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Defending champion Robert Cheruiyot won his third Boston Marathon on Monday as Kenyans took the first three places in the slowest race since 1977.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Russia's Lidiya Grigoryeva won the Boston Marathon's women's race on Monday becoming the first non-Kenyan woman to win in eight years and first Russian to take the top prize in 14 years.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House expressed deep concern on Monday over how Russian authorities broke up opposition protests over the weekend, calling it heavy-handed and part of an 'emerging pattern of use of excessive force.'

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. airlines canceled dozens of flights on Monday as they regrouped after heavy rain and gale-force winds battered the U.S. Northeast.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office said on Monday it expanded a sweeping investigation into the student loan industry with subpoenas and information requests to 13 more lenders, including some of the largest U.S. banks.

AP - A man who was recently paroled from prison was charged Monday with setting a fire at his cousin's house that killed five children and injured four other people.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - The killings at Virginia Tech university on Monday will stir fresh U.S. debate over gun control and what drives people to go on shooting rampages through schools and colleges.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Canadian lawyer who advised Conrad Black denied on Monday in taped testimony that he refused to come to a U.S. court in person out of fear that he, too, would be implicated in the fraud scandal with which the fallen media baron is charged.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office expanded a sweeping investigation into the student loan industry with subpoenas and information requests to 13 more lenders, including some of the largest U.S. banks.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Employees say workers are more likely to steal petty cash and commit other unethical acts when they are dissatisfied and see their own superiors behaving badly, according to research released on Monday.

AP - The Wall Street Journal won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the public service award for its coverage of the stock-options scandal that rattled corporate America in 2006. The Associated Press captured one for breaking news photography for a picture of a Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces in the West Bank.

AP - An alleged Iraqi 'sleeper agent' sent by Saddam Hussein to spy on dissidents in the United States was convicted Monday of lying about his ties to the former Baghdad regime.

AP - Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Monday underwent another operation on the leg he broke in a highway crash that left him in critical condition.

AP - Hundreds of evacuees were allowed to return home Monday after officials determined that an unstable earthen dam was no longer in danger of bursting.

AP - A sunken barge loaded with grain was found Monday, a day after it drifted off in a towboat accident on the Mississippi River.

AP - The robbery trial of Lionel Tate, once sentenced to life in prison for killing a girl when he was 12, was delayed several months Monday after defense attorneys said they have evidence that proves Tate did not hold up a pizza delivery man.

AP - Officials from the Ohio university devastated last month by a fatal bus wreck visited Atlanta on Monday to see the crash site and thank hospital staffers for caring for the school's baseball team.

AP - A spring break trip to Cuba taken by students and a teacher from a New York City public high school has raised concerns about whether the group violated U.S. travel restrictions to the Communist country.

AP - Three times a week, Vince Stankoski is lifted from his wheelchair onto a stationary bicycle. Electrodes are attached to three of his muscle groups, coaxing his paralyzed legs to pedal.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Wall Street Journal won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Public Service on Monday for its probe into backdated stock options for business executives, which triggered investigations and dismissals in corporate America.

BOSTON (Reuters) - An American astronaut became the first person to run the Boston Marathon in space on Monday, completing the 26.2 miles on a treadmill in the orbiting International Space Station.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A report that found some abstinence-only education programs do little to discourage teens from having sex only shows a small part of the picture, a Health and Human Services Department official said on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who frequently eat cured meats such as ham, hot dogs and bacon face a higher risk of lung disease, researchers said on Monday, citing additives called nitrites as a possible cause.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A court-ordered auction of the rights to O.J. Simpson's quasi-confessional book 'If I Did It' was canceled because the former football star's surrogate company has declared bankruptcy, an attorney for the father of murder victim Ron Goldman said on Monday.

AP - The Wall Street Journal won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, including the public service award for its coverage of the stock-options scandal that rattled corporate America in 2006. The Associated Press captured one for breaking news photography for a picture of a Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces in the West Bank.

AP - Jury selection began Monday for the trial of alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla and two co-defendants, with potential jurors questioned about their knowledge of Padilla's link to a purported 'dirty bomb' plot.

AP - An undercover FBI agent, who testified he posed as a business executive and paid bribes to an influential state senator, defended his role Monday as he was cross-examined by a defense attorney at the ex-legislator's corruption trial.

AP - The 9-year-old daughter of a preacher's wife testified Monday at her mother's murder trial that she heard a 'big boom' coming from her parents' room, then saw her father on the ground.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Wall Street Journal won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for its probe into backdated stock options for business executives that led to investigations and dismissals in corporate America.

AP - Potential jurors were questioned about their knowledge of Jose Padilla's link to a purported 'dirty bomb' plot as jury selection began Monday for the suspected al-Qaida operative's trial.

AP - On the first day of the fall semester in August, administrators at Virginia Tech canceled classes after a sheriff's deputy was fatally shot near campus during a manhunt for an escaped inmate.

AP - High winds toppled a flagpole onto a kindergartner during recess at an elementary school Monday, killing the girl, a school spokeswoman said.

AP - A woman accused of killing and dismembering her husband was betrayed by the men in her life, hounded by investigators and physically incapable of the crime, her attorney said Monday during his closing argument.

AP - Taxi drivers who refuse service to travelers carrying alcohol at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport face tougher penalties despite protests from Muslim cabbies who sought a compromise for religious reasons, officials said Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The King left the building 30 years ago but the home where he died, Graceland, hopes to mark the occasion in August by luring droves of Elvis Presley fans with an advertising campaign launched on Monday.