The Associated Press, citing two unnamed sources, reports that Pentagon has drafted several options for cutting U.S. nuclear weapons. The plans has not yet been presented to President Obama.

Update at 4:05 p.m. ET: USA TODAY White House correspondent David Jackson sought comment from National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor. In an e-mail, Vietor calls the Associated Press report "wildly overwritten" and offesr what it was told on the record:

"The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) outlined five key objectives of our nuclear weapons policies and postures: preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism; reducing the role of U.S. nuclear weapons in U.S. national security strategy; maintaining strategy deterrence and stability at reduced nuclear force levels; strengthening regional deterrence and reassuring U.S. allies and partners; and sustaining a safe, secure and effective nuclear arsenal. As part of the NPR Implementation study, DOD used a range of policy criteria to develop options for the Presidential guidance that will be used to develop force structure, force postures and stockpile requirements. The implementation study is still underway and the Department of Defense has not yet presented the study to the President."

The report comes ahead of a nuclear summit in South Korea in late March that Obama will attend.

Original post: The Obama administration is considering deep cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, including one option to slash deployed weapons by 80%, the Associated Press is reporting.

AP, citing "a former U.S. official and a congressional official," says the administration is debating at least three options to bring the U.S. stockpile down to somewhere between 1,100 and 300. The current treaty allows 1,550.

When he came to office in 2009, President Obama pledged to try to eliminate nuclear weapons.

The Arms Control Association offers background and perspectives on "The Future of the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal and the Budget."

Update at 3:36 p.m. ET: A spokesman for the National Security Council tells AP the options, developed by the Pentagon, have not yet been presented to Obama.

The Pentagon's press secretary said the president had asked for several "alternative approaches" to nuclear deterrence, but he would not comment on specific force level options because they are classified, AP adds.

Mormon church leaders have apologized to the family of the late Holocaust survivor and famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal after a church member posthumously baptized Wiesenthal's parents last month, The Salt Lake Tribune reports.

Mormons believe posthumous baptism by proxy rites allow deceased persons to receive the Gospel in the afterlife.

The baptism of Holocaust victims, like Asher and Rosa Wiesenthal, was supposed to be barred by a 1995 agreement between the church and Jews, although some submissions continue by church members, the Associated Press reports.

In Salt Lake City, officials of the Church of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, apologized Monday, saying that the church "sincerely regret[s] that the actions of an individual member ... led to the inappropriate submission of these names," which were "clearly against the policy of the church," The Tribune reports.

"We consider this a serious breach of our protocol," church spokesman Scott Trotter said in a statement, "and we have suspended indefinitely this person's ability to access our genealogy records."

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate of the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, a Jewish human rights organization, said in a statement that his organization was "outraged that such insensitive actions continue in the Mormon temples."

Cooper added:

We note that these rites were undertaken and confirmed in Mormon Temples in Utah, Arizona, and Idaho. Further meetings with Church leaders on this matter are useless. The only way such insensitive practices would finally stop is if Church leaders finally decided to change their practices and policies on posthumous baptisms, a move which this latest outrage proves that they are unwilling to do.

Salt Lake City researcher Helen Radkey found documentation of the baptisms while conducting regular checks of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints genealogical database last week, the AP says.

Wiesenthal died in 2005.

For the first time, two gay couples were among newlyweds exchanging vows atop the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day.

Stephanie Figarelle, 28, and Lela McArthur, 24, both personal trainers from Anchorage, were among four couples who won an online contest to exchange vows at the famed Manhattan landmark.

The other same-sex couple was Phil Fung, 49, who works for a financial services firm, and Shawn Klein, 51, a hospital administrator, both of New York, Reuters reports.

In June, New York became the sixth state to legalize gay marriage.

Figarelle wore a black tuxedo and McArthur a strapless white gown, the Associated Press reports. They exchanged rings and promised to love each other for the rest of their lives.

Fung tells Reuters they thought it would be a "fantastic opportunity" to wed on top of the iconic skyscraper on the first Valentine's Day after same-sex marriage was allowed.

Prosecutors charge that seven members of a Midwest militia group aimed for armed confrontation with the government, but a defense attorney says the leader of the group was preparing to fight the antichrist, not the federal government.

Seven members of the Hutaree militia are on trial in Detroit on charges of conspiring to ambush and kill a police officer, then attack the funeral procession with explosives and trigger a broader revolt against the U.S. government, the Detroit Free Press reports.

"These individuals, led by David Stone Sr., wanted an armed confrontation with law enforcement and the federal government," prosecutor Christopher Graveline told the jury during opening arguments on Monday, at one point holding an AK47 assault rifle in the air, the newspaper reports. "They didn't just talk. They planned. ... They were ready, willing and able to go to war."

A cache of weapons was seized during arrests in southern Michigan, Indiana and Ohio in March 2010, according to the Associated Press.

But defense lawyers say the case is a fantasy concocted by undercover FBI agents and paid confidential informants.

"You will have to decide whether this is a real conspiracy or David Stone exercising his God-given right to blow off steam and open his mouth," Stone's lawyer, William Swor, told jurors. "These are ordinary people living ordinary lives. Doing this stuff was merely their form of recreation."

Swor argued that Stone, a preacher's son, was brought up on the Book of Revelations and its end-time prophecy, the Free Press reports. As a parent, he taught the prophecies to his sons and was all about preparing for the arrival of the antichrist.

Swor argued that any such threat from the antichrist would come from overseas and that Stone had no quarrel with the U.S. government.

"There was no plan. There was no action," Swor told jurors, adding that many of the weapons seized as evidence in the case "have been collected for over 20 years."

Moody's today downgraded the debt ratings of six eurozone countries and put a negative outlook on the United Kingdom, France and Austria, setting up the possibility they might lose their top ratings in the next 18 months, The Financial Times says.

Moody's lowered the ratings on Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Malta.

In its extensive news release, Moody's explained the reasons for the "adjustments":

- The uncertainty over (i) the euro area's prospects for institutional reform of its fiscal and economic framework and (ii) the resources that will be made available to deal with the crisis.

- Europe's increasingly weak macroeconomic prospects, which threaten the implementation of domestic austerity programs and the structural reforms that are needed to promote competitiveness.

- The impact that Moody's believes these factors will continue to have on market confidence, which is likely to remain fragile, with a high potential for further shocks to funding conditions for stressed sovereigns and banks.

To a varying degree, these factors are constraining the creditworthiness of all European sovereigns and exacerbating the susceptibility of a number of sovereigns to particular financial and macroeconomic exposures.

"Moody's tends to be more conservative than S&P but it's trail-blazing here by placing the UK on a negative watch," Kathy Lien, director for currency research at GFT Forex, told the FT, but "it's very unlikely that they will follow this with an actual debt downgrade."

Tonight, Britain released a radical Jordanian cleric who was held for six years as a national security threat and who reportedly influenced the lead hijacker of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to news reports.

Abu Qatada, 51, was released late tonight from Worcester jail on restrictive bail conditions that include 22 hours of house arrest and wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet, the BBC says. Last week, a judge ordered him freed after the European Court of Human Rights blocked his deportation to Jordan, where he was convicted in absentia of involvement in terror conspiracies. British and Jordanian officials had agreed he would not be tortured if he was returned, but the human rights courts rejected that assurance.

Qatada, who sought asylum in Britain in 1993 after claiming he was tortured in Jordan, was an inspiration to Mohamed Atta, the lead hijacker of the Sept. 11 attacks, CNN says. Britain alleges that through his extremist Islamist preaching and activities, he raised money for Osama bin Laden, among others, but he was never charged.

Two Columbine High School students were injured today in a hammer attack by a 14-year-old girl, according to news reports.

Update at 4:45 p.m. ET: The teen suspect warned a school employee ahead of the attack, AP says.

The head of security for the Jefferson County School District, John McDonald, says that the girl attacked a 15-year-old girl in a bathroom and that a male student was hurt when he intervened.

Still no word on the conditions of the injured or on the identities of those involved.

Original post: A 14-year-old Columbine High student has been arrested for attacking two other students with a hammer at the infamous Denver-area school, the Associated Press reports.

A Jefferson County sheriff's spokeswoman said that the attack happened this morning but that the conditions of the injured students were not known. The suspect is facing assault charges.

The school was the scene of the April 1999 massacre by two students who killed themselves after murdering 12 students and teacher and wounding 26 others.

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Rain forced searchers today to postpone more digging at an old well in Northern California where a death row inmate says there are remains of 10 or more victims from a 15-year murder spree by the "Speed Freak Killers."

After two days of searching the site, investigators, public works employees and volunteers have found more than 300 human bones, San Joaquin County sheriff's spokesman Deputy Les Garcia said in a statement, the Associated Press reports.

On Sunday, authorities said the search near Linden, Calif., found a pair of sandals, tennis shoes, engraved jewelry and a woman's purse.

Searchers are going by a map drawn by death-row inmate Wesley Shermantine, who claims that the well holds remains of victims killed in the 1980s and 1990s by him and a childhood friend, Lorenz Herzog.

The pair were arrested in 1999, but the killings may have spanned more than 15 years, the AP reports.

In letters and interviews, Shermantine has said there could be 10 to 20 bodies in the wells. But, the Los Angeles Times reports, he also is said to have bragged about killings as far away as Utah.

"They basically hunted people," Rob Dick, a private investigator who for more than a decade has been compiling a list of possible victims, tells the newspaper.

Herzog was convicted of three murders and sentenced to 77 years to life in prison, though that was later reduced to 14 years. An appeals court threw out his first-degree murder convictions after ruling that his confession had been illegally obtained.

He was paroled in 2010, but committed suicide last month after a bounty hunter told him Shermantine was disclosing the location of the well along with two other sites.

The killings were spread over such a large area and years that it wasn't until the pair were arrested 13 years ago that authorities realized there was a connection between the victims.

Nobody likes getting cut off in traffic, but usually both parties can speed away, perhaps shaking a fist as they roar off.

That's tougher to do when you're stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic for hours, like drivers recently on the Anzalduas International Bridge connecting Texas' Rio Grande Valley to Mexico, as surveillance video shows.

WATCH:  Drivers brawl on international bridge

Cut off, one driver challenges the other. While they duke it out on the roadway, dozens of other drivers -- undeterred -- pull around and move up farther in line.

The Monitor newspaper in McAllen, Texas, linked today to surveillance video, which was recorded in November.