A disclosure of e-mails showed the White House was more involved in revising talking points about the attack in Benghazi, Libya, than officials have previously acknowledged.    

A task force of elected officials in Newtown on Friday recommended tearing down Sandy Hook Elementary School, the school where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December, and rebuilding on the same site.

The group of 28 town elected officials voted unanimously in favor of a plan that would construct a new building in the same location.

The proposal now goes to the local school board, which has final authority.

The panel had narrowed a list of choices to renovating or rebuilding on the school site or building a new school on property down the street. Each would cost between about $48 million and $60 million.

The 430 surviving students are attending a renovated school renamed Sandy Hook Elementary School in the neighboring town of Monroe.

Officials had said that whatever choice is made, a new or renovated school wouldn't be ready by Aug. 27, the start of the next school year.

A study found building a new school on the existing site would cost $57 million.

Sandy Hook Elementary School hasn't housed students since the killings. Some town residents said the school should be torn down because they couldn't imagine sending children back there. Others favored renovating the school, with some saying that tearing it down would be a victory for evil.

Residents of towns where other mass school shootings occurred have grappled with the same dilemma. Some have renovated, some have demolished.

Columbine High School in Colorado, where two student gunmen killed 12 schoolmates and a teacher in 1999, reopened several months afterward. Crews removed the library, where most of the victims died, and replaced it with an atrium.

Virginia Tech converted a classroom building where a student gunman killed 30 people in 2007 into a peace studies and violence prevention center. And an Amish community in Pennsylvania tore down the West Nickel Mines Amish School and built a new school a few hundred yards away after a gunman killed five girls there in 2006.

On the morning of Dec. 14, gunman Adam Lanza, who had killed his mother at their Newtown home, went to Sandy Hook Elementary School and opened fire with an assault rifle, killing the 20 children and the six adults. He killed himself as police arrived at the school.

The school shooting, one of the deadliest in U.S. history, has spurred national debate about gun control and Second Amendment rights.

Police have not disclosed possible motives for the Newtown killings. Law enforcement officials have said Lanza showed an interest in other mass killings and played violent video games.

The United States government reported a rare surplus of $113 billion for April, the largest in five years.    

Tesla's Musk, Yammer founder Sacks decide to leave FWD.us after ad backlash.

Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, died in Mexico City on Thursday night after spending much of his life seeking to make peace with his own past and that of his famous family.    

Elon Musk of Tesla and David Sacks of Yammer have left Mark Zuckerberg’s Fwd.us, which faces criticism from environmentalists over its lobbying tactics.    

Bloomberg News confirmed that reporters for its news service used the the company’s terminals to monitor subscribers’ usage.    

A DNA test confirmed that a Cleveland man accused of holding three women captive for years is the father of a 6-year-old girl who escaped from his house with the women, a prosecutor said on Friday.    

Indictments on charges of possession of contraband have been filed against 14 inmates in connection with videos showing prisoners brazenly using drugs, drinking beer and flashing a loaded gun in the New Orleans jail.    

High-ranking Oakland police officers are not being held accountable for crimes committed in the areas they oversee, a report by a former Los Angeles police chief found.    

The problem of what to do with the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, was solved when a small cemetery agreed to take it.    

A new law will cause flood insurance premiums to skyrocket and require stricter, and thus more expensive, rebuilding standards.    

Bureaucratic and technical obstacles have slowed the distribution of federal aid in places where water is laced with nitrates and other pollutants.    

GOP senators have argued that Gina McCarthy has not responded to all of their requests.

Congress is unable to pass climate legislation.

An FBI agent who told police in Virginia that he fatally shot his estranged wife last month has been charged in her death.

Media outlets say 43-year-old Arthur Gonzales was charged Friday with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony in the April 19 shooting death of Julie Serna Gonzales.

Stafford sheriff's office spokesman Bill Kennedy says Gonzales turned himself in shortly after 6 p.m. He is being held at the Rappahannock Regional Jail without bond.

During a recorded 911 call, Gonzales told the dispatcher his wife attacked him with a knife and that he had to shoot her.

He works as a supervisory special agent and instructor at the bureau's National Academy at Quantico.

It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney.

The likelihood of strikes by workers in South Africa's strategic mining sector may curb output, presenting an upside risk.

The body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon terror attack, has been buried in a Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Virginia, a source close to the investigation told CNN on Friday.

Republicans pounce at the agency's revelation.

He says it precludes her from ever holding office.