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An Iraqi woman passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. A wave of car bombings across Baghdad's Shiite neighborhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed and wounded scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi Bloodshed Raises Civil War Fears

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Baghdad — Iraq’s wave of bloodshed sharply escalated yesterday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria’s civil war next door. The latest spiral of violence — which has claimed more than 240 lives …

Aides: We Knew Of IRS Audit But Didn’t Tell Obama

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Washington — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Obama’s spokesman disclosed yesterday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named earlier. But …

Poor Discrediting Myth Of Suburban Prosperity

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Los Angeles — Bucking longstanding patterns in the United States, more poor people now live in the nation’s suburbs than in urban areas, according to a new analysis. As poverty mounted throughout the nation over the past decade, the number of poor people living in suburbs surged 67 percent between 2000 and 2011 — a much bigger jump than in cities, researchers for …