US Top Stories from Associated Press (AP)

New undercover videos of abortion professionals explaining late-term abortions, coupled with states passing strict new abortion laws and a horror-show abortion criminal case, are keeping abortion at the top of the news , an unexpected development after the nation re-elected its most vocal pro-choice president.

NEW YORK (AP) , One World Trade Center already is New York's tallest building. And when the last pieces of its spire eventually rise to the roof, the 104-floor skyscraper that replaces the fallen twin towers will be just feet from becoming the highest in the Western Hemisphere.

A federal judge ordered the Mississippi man who was charged with making a poison and mailing it President Obama to be held without bail on Monday. The suspected, James Everett Dutschke, 41, was arrested on Saturday, after a week of investigation that led police to search his Tupelo home and his former place of business. Police initially looked at Mr. Dutschke's friend as the key suspect.

Former Rep. Ron Paul said the law enforcement that swarmed around Boston in the days following the marathon bombings was scarier than the actual terrorist attack. "The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city," he said on the Lew Rockwell website, Politico reported.

NEW YORK (AP) , The China Institute Gallery has been transformed into an ancient cave, taking visitors back more than a millennium to a dazzling world where Buddhist worshippers adorned the walls with colorful frescoes, silk prayer banners and lavishly painted life-size clay sculptures.

A male high school student shot himself in class on Monday, an apparent suicide attempt that took staff and students by surprise, police said. The Associated Press reported the La Salle High School student was taken to the hospital. The shooter did not threaten anyone else, AP said. La Salle is an all-male parochial school.

The latest attempt to tie fracking to water pollution in northern Pennsylvania has been debunked by state regulators. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection on Monday announced that, after a 16-month investigation, there's no evidence to connect natural gas drilling with high levels of methane found in private water supplies in the small town of Franklin Forks.

Clerics , whom some might call first responders , looking to provide spiritual healing were turned away from the scene of the Boston Marathon bombings because of security risks. For authorities trying to secure a crime scene, the decision to admit clergy to the site of a bombing is risky.

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says evidence suggests that the Boston bombing suspects had help in the attack and that there likely is a "wider conspiracy." "Given the level of sophistication of this [explosive] device, the fact that the pressure cooker is a signature device that goes back to Pakistan and Afghanistan ...

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) , The father of the two Boston bombing suspects says he is postponing a trip to the United States because of poor health. Anzor Tsarnaev told The Associated Press on Sunday that he is "really sick" and his blood pressure had spiked.

NEW YORK (AP) , A rusted piece of airplane landing gear discovered wedged between a mosque and an apartment building and believed to be from one of the hijacked planes that destroyed the nearby World Trade Center on Sept. 11 has been confirmed as coming from the type of Boeing jet used in the attacks.

NEW YORK (AP) , This was one rush quarterbacks embraced. Starting with Matt Barkley, the fourth round of the NFL draft was the landing spot for quarterbacks who carried hopes of going much higher. Philadelphia traded up with Jacksonville to get the Southern California QB with the opening pick Saturday.

BRANDON, Miss. (AP) , An ex-martial arts instructor made ricin and put the poison in letters to President Barack Obama and others, the FBI charged Saturday, days after dropping similar charges against an Elvis impersonator who insisted he had been framed.

NEW YORK (AP) , The Federal Aviation Administration said that the U.S. air traffic system will resume normal operations by Sunday evening after lawmakers rushed a bill through Congress allowing the agency to withdraw furloughs of air traffic controllers and other workers.

BOSTON (AP) , With the Boston marathon bombing suspect in a prison hospital, investigators are pushing forward in the U.S. and abroad to piece together the myriad details of a plot that killed three people and injured more than 260.