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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaking out for the first time since he resigned, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal takes the blame for a Rolling Stone article and the unflattering comments attributed to his staff about the Obama administration that ended his Afghanistan command and army career.
• "Regardless of how I judged the story for fairness or accuracy, responsibility was mine," McChrystal writes in his new memoir, in a carefully worded denouncement of the story.
• The Rolling Stone article anonymously quoted McChrystal's aides as criticizing Obama's team, including Vice President Joe Biden. Biden had disagreed with McChrystal's strategy that called for more troops in Afghanistan. Biden preferred to send a smaller counterterrorism and training force -- a policy the White House is now considering as it transitions troops from the Afghan war.
• McChrystal adds the choice to resign as U.S. commander in Afghanistan was his own.
• "I called no one for advice," he writes in "My Share of the Task," describing his hasty plane ride back to Washington only hours after the article appeared in 2010, to offer his resignation to President Barack Obama. McChrystal was immediately replaced by his then-boss, Gen. David Petraeus.
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• SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) -- Several gun shows, all about an hour's drive from Newtown, Conn., have been canceled.
• A show in White Plains, N.Y. -- brought back a few years ago after being called off for a decade because of the Columbine shooting -- is off because officials decided it didn't seem appropriate now, either. In Danbury, Conn. -- about 10 miles west of Newtown -- the venue backed out. Same with three other shows in New York's Hudson Valley, according to the organizer.
• Gun advocates aren't backing down from their insistence on the right to keep and bear arms. But heightened sensitivities and raw nerves since the Newtown shooting have led to toned-down displays at gun shows and prompted some officials and

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