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String of attacks kill 5 in Iraq

Posted: 12 May 2013 01:12 PM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunfire attacks in Iraq on Sunday killed five people, including a provincial official in a southern city.

Leading candidates in Iran's presidential race

Posted: 12 May 2013 11:32 AM PDT

Former chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Mohsen Rezaei, a hopeful for the upcoming presidential election, waves to media, after registering his candidacy, at the election headquarters of interior ministry in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 10, 2013. The five-day registration period for candidates in next month's election opened on Tuesday. The election overseers, known as the Guardian Council, will announce the handful of candidates on the ballot later this month. The June 14 election will pick a successor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)The following are potential front-runners in Iran's June 14 presidential election to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The list of candidates will be announced next week after vetting by Iran's ruling clerics:

Politics commandeer stage in Mideast TV contest

Posted: 12 May 2013 11:29 AM PDT

In this Friday, April. 26, 2013 photo, Syrian singer Farah Youssef, performs during the Arab Idol Show broadcast by MBC Arabic satellite channel, in Zouk Mosbeh neighborhood, north of Beirut, Lebanon. Youssef in a recent interview described her ordeal that has come to feature daily in the lives of Syrians caught up in the civil war that has killed more than 70,000 people and turned millions of other into refugees. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)BEIRUT (AP) — TV singing contests around the world tend to serve up light, glitzy entertainment with a dash of emotional drama. But in the Middle East's version of "American Idol," it's the region's troubles that often take center stage.

Police memorial wall comes with some tough calls

Posted: 12 May 2013 08:22 AM PDT

FILE- In an Aug. 18, 2009 file photo, Isaiah Sabounjian, 5, left, and his brother Tyler Sabounjian, 5, of Silver Spring, Md., make rubbings of their grandfather's name, Capitol Police Sgt. Christopher Eney, who was accidentally killed during a SWAT training exercise in Washington in 1984, after a ceremony honoring Eney on the 25th anniversary of his death at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington. Tough calls don't often confront the people responsible for deciding who belongs on a national memorial for officers killed in the line of duty. But recognizing fallen men and women in blue isn't always a black-and-white decision. The cases of two inductees this year highlight challenges for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. It holds a vigil Monday, May 13, 2013, for 321 officers added to the wall. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)DETROIT (AP) — Deciding which police officers killed in the line of duty belong on a national memorial usually is driven by facts and presents few obstacles. But this year, two cases show that it isn't always so black-and-white to honor the nation's fallen men and women in blue.

Officials: Gunfire attacks kill 4, wound 3 in Iraq

Posted: 12 May 2013 07:59 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say two gunfire attacks in and near Baghdad have killed four people and wounded three.

George Packer's 6 favorite books

Posted: 12 May 2013 07:00 AM PDT

George Packer's new novel is called The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.An acclaimed New Yorker staff writer recommends works by Charles Dickens and George Orwell

5 Staffers to Watch Among House Freshmen

Posted: 12 May 2013 06:28 AM PDT

Running an office of a freshman member of Congress is never easy, but certain lawmakers and their top aides have especially unique challenges. Meet the chiefs of staffs of five House members whose election to Congress is somehow notable or newsworthy.

Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints

Posted: 12 May 2013 06:15 AM PDT

Pope Francis, middle, kisses the altar as he arrives to celebrate his first canonization ceremony in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, May 12, 2013. The pontiff will canonize Antonio Primaldo and his companions, also known as the Martyrs of Otranto, Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya of Colombia, and Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala of Mexico in a ceremony at the Vatican on Sunday. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first canonization ceremony Sunday in a packed St. Peter's Square.

Today in History

Posted: 11 May 2013 09:00 PM PDT

Today is Sunday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2013. There are 233 days left in the year. This is Mother's Day.

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