Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times. The deal announced Monday represents Mayer's boldest move yet since she left Google 10 months ago to lead Yahoo's...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Chesapeake Energy has named Anadarko Petroleum executive Robert Douglas Lawler as its new CEO. The appointment of the 46-year-old Lawler comes after a tough year during which Chesapeake's board ousted its founder and the company worked to shore up its finances. The new...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

BAGHDAD (AP) — A wave of car bombs and shootings killed at least 70 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting in the country. The attacks, some of which hit market places and crowded bus stops during...

Conn Carroll

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Kenneth Palinkas, the President of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, a union representing 12,000 United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers and staff, issued a statement today explaining why his union has decided to officially oppose the...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

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Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion; to remain separately run.

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.5 billion which would create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the U.S. The announcement on Monday comes after the two companies said earlier this month that they were in talks...

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say car bomb in Shiite area of Baghdad kills at least 13 civilians.

Conn Carroll

Updated: 11 min ago

Inside Washington, continuing developments in the Internal Revenue Service, Associated Press, and Benghazi scandals may have given President Obama the worst week of his presidency so far. But outside Washington, Obama seems to be doing just fine. According to a CNN poll taken on Friday and...

Paul Bedard

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

New charges from a liberal group that its tax-exempt status was questioned by the IRS are raising new questions that the tax agency is politically driven to please the party that controls the White House. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals told Secrets that it was "targeted" for three...