WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired two Ku Klux Klan robes that will be exhibited in its future home on the National Mall.

DETROIT (AP) — The remains of casino mogul Don Barden have been buried by his estranged wife — six months after the prominent Detroit businessman died of complications from lung cancer.

Some are holding potluck dinners instead of springing for the entire feast. Others are staying home rather than flying. And a few are skipping the turkey altogether.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man clad in black who was obsessed with President Barack Obama pulled his car within view of the White House at night and fired shots from an assault rifle, cracking a window of the first family's living quarters while the president was away, authorities said about their still-developing investigation.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State police and their counterparts in State College said they had no record of a former graduate assistant reporting a sexual assault by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on a 10-year-old boy in a campus shower, a detail that runs counter to claims made in an email to former teammates.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Under rising pressure from fellow Republicans, presidential hopeful Herman Cain sought to muddy the reputation of one accuser, forcefully denied any and all allegations of sexual impropriety and vowed Tuesday the growing controversy would not drive him from the race for the White House.

YEADON, Pa. (AP) — President Barack Obama chided congressional Republicans Tuesday for "trying to gut our investments in education," and announced new steps to tackle early childhood education that won't require legislation.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday continued to press Congress to pass the Obama administration's nearly $450 billion jobs bill.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Grass-roots volunteers flocked to Barack Obama last time. This time, the president's campaign is in recruiting mode.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The ranks of America's poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs and income.