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• Rebuilding Iraq: Final report card on US efforts highlights massive waste
• Bomb attack in Iraqi city of Kirkuk kills 31
• Suicide bomber hits Iraqi cafe, killing 38
• Officials: Blast hits northern Iraqi city; 19 dead
• Al-Qaida-linked gunmen kill Syrian rebel commander
• The Edge: Is Immigration the Only Answer for the GOP?
• DARPA's New Terminator, in GIFs
• The 25 Most Influential Washington Women Under 35
• For Obama, Bush, Reagan, no vacation from politics
• New front opens in Syria as rebels say al Qaeda attack means war
• New attacks in Iraq kill 24 Shiites, 5 policemen
• Finding Chris Hondros: Film to explore life of slain war photographer through images
• Mark Lippert: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's Right Hand Man
• Iraq officials: Evening attacks on Shiites kill 24
• Syria opposition: Some in US Congress delay arms

Rebuilding Iraq: Final report card on US efforts highlights massive waste Posted: 12 Jul 2013 04:15 PM PDT The US reconstruction operations in Iraq constituted the largest project of its kind ever undertaken by America, but it was plagued by a host of challenges, including corruption and waste, that cast a poor light on the US ability to undertake such projects, the author of the official report on the program told Congress this week.

Bomb attack in Iraqi city of Kirkuk kills 31 Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:51 PM PDT By Mustafa Mahmoud KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A bomb attack on a tea house in the ethnically mixed Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least 31 people on Friday, police and medics said. The blast tore through the tea shop where people had gathered after breaking their fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in a southern district of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of the capital Baghdad. ...

Suicide bomber hits Iraqi cafe, killing 38 Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:48 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a crowded coffee shop late Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing at least 38 and wounding more than two dozen in the latest in a string of bloody attacks pounding Iraq since the start of the holy month of Ramadan this week.

Officials: Blast hits northern Iraqi city; 19 dead Posted: 12 Jul 2013 02:01 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A bomb struck a crowded coffee shop late Friday in the ethnically disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing at least 19 and wounding more than two dozen in the latest in a string of bloody attacks pounding Iraq since the start of the holy month of Ramadan this week.

Al-Qaida-linked gunmen kill Syrian rebel commander Posted: 12 Jul 2013 12:02 PM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Al-Qaida-linked gunmen killed a rebel commander in Syria aligned with the Western-backed militias fighting against Bashar Assad's regime, the highest-profile casualty of growing tensions between moderate and jihadi fighters among rebel forces.

The Edge: Is Immigration the Only Answer for the GOP? Posted: 12 Jul 2013 09:01 AM PDT The Edge is National Journal's daily look at today in Washington -- and what's coming next. The email features analysis from NJ's top correspondents, the biggest stories of the day -- and always a few surprises. To subscribe, click here.

DARPA's New Terminator, in GIFs Posted: 12 Jul 2013 08:57 AM PDT This is the new Terminator built by DARPA to destroy all of humanity. Kidding, kidding. The 6-foot-2-inch 330-pound man-shaped robot was built to rescue humans in a Fukushima-style disaster. Atlas, Extreme Tech's Sebastian Anthony explains, has "some of the most advanced robotic limbs ever conceived," with 28 hydraulic joints that allow the robot to closely mimic human motion—"or, in the case of the robot hands provided by iRobot and Sandia National Labs, surpass them."

The 25 Most Influential Washington Women Under 35 Posted: 12 Jul 2013 07:16 AM PDT Thousands of young women flock to Washington each year, armed with degrees in fields as diverse as political science, communications, public policy, and economics. Mostly, they come for jobs, fueled by energy and even idealism. Sometimes it takes a while for their efforts to have an impact. But not always.

For Obama, Bush, Reagan, no vacation from politics Posted: 12 Jul 2013 06:30 AM PDT When William Howard Taft was president in the early 1900s, a cartoon showed a senator stuffing a bill into the mouth of a GOP elephant while a happily unaware Taft played golf. Mr. Dooley, the imaginary Irish-American bartender created by cartoonist Finley Peter Dunne, quoted Taft as saying, "Golf is th' thing I like best next to leavin' Washington."

New front opens in Syria as rebels say al Qaeda attack means war Posted: 12 Jul 2013 05:23 AM PDT By Mariam Karouny and Oliver Holmes BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said on Friday the assassination of one of their top commanders by al Qaeda-linked militants was tantamount to a declaration of war, opening a new front for the Western-backed fighters struggling against President Bashar al-Assad's forces. Rivalries have been growing between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the Islamists, whose smaller but more effective forces control most of the rebel-held parts of northern Syria more than two years after pro-democracy protests became an uprising. ...

New attacks in Iraq kill 24 Shiites, 5 policemen Posted: 12 Jul 2013 05:00 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — New attacks on Iraqi Shiites killed at least 24 people while assaults Friday against policemen killed five, officials said, as insurgents press their campaign to exacerbate the country's renewed sectarian tensions.

Finding Chris Hondros: Film to explore life of slain war photographer through images Posted: 12 Jul 2013 03:19 AM PDT Chris Hondros and Joseph Duo were the unlikeliest of friends. One was a veteran war photographer for Getty Images based in New York, the other a Liberian soldier who had dropped out of school in the 10th grade to go to war. Their lives couldn't have been more different, save for a fleeting moment in July 2003 when an iconic image tied them together forever.

Mark Lippert: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's Right Hand Man Posted: 12 Jul 2013 02:50 AM PDT EDITOR'S NOTE: Lippert is one of National Journal magazine's hundreds of Decision Makers. Watch for this special issue profiling key members within the Obama administration coming out July 20.On a congressional delegation to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008 as a Senate aide, Mark Lippert could not predict his traveling companions would one day run the free world.Lippert, who served as then-Sen. ...

Iraq officials: Evening attacks on Shiites kill 24 Posted: 12 Jul 2013 02:39 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Evening attacks against Shiites in Iraq killed at least 24 people and wounded 49, Iraqi officials said Friday, in the latest attempt by insurgents to exacerbate the country's renewed sectarian tensions.

Syria opposition: Some in US Congress delay arms Posted: 12 Jul 2013 02:20 AM PDT BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's main opposition bloc complained that "elements in the U.S. Congress" are obstructing the Obama administration's efforts to step up support for the rebels, as regime forces on Friday intensified their offensive on opposition strongholds.

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