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At least 12 people, including five foreign contractors, are killed in a car bombing in Baghdad. Over the past three days, a series of attacks have killed numerous Iraqis, including a senior civil servant and a top official in the foreign ministry. The attacks illustrate the security concerns Iraq's new government faces as it prepares to assume sovereignty June 30. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt.

The former president now says an audiotape that came out this week, of him apparently showing reporters a top-secret document that he'd kept was all bravado.

The Guardian is reporting that several lawyers with business before the Supreme Court paid money via Venmo to a top aide to Justice Clarence Thomas.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem that behind last month's eruption of violence over an obscure archaeological tunnel lies the bigger issue troubling the city's future: the challenge to the status quo whereby each religion respects and honors the holy places of their rival religions. That Palestinians are sensitive to each and every change in the makeup of Old Jerusalem can be explained by the fact that militant Zionists are insisting on encroaching and praying in the Muslim's holy sanctuary of Haram al Sahrif, on top of the Temple Mount.

For many weeks, the president said he would step away from managing his businesses, but he offered no evidence. Now documents are turning up, showing he no longer is listed as top executive.

Villanova and Kansas, both top seeds, will face each other while No. 11 Loyola-Chicago will play No. 3 Michigan on Saturday in the semifinals in San Antonio, Texas.

Just 36 days before the Winter Olympics open in Turin, Italy, the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation has suspended one of the team's top coaches. Female athletes on the skeleton team have accused their coach of sexual harassment. North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports.

The Republican nominee's campaign says the Obama administration has sent mixed signals. President Obama's top aides say that's not so. That's likely to again be a point of disagreement during Tuesday's debate.

Ever want to look back in time? With "time merge media," you can watch athletes dribble, swing and dance, and even throw five pitches at once.

Cheetahs don't often hunt at their top speed, scientists are finding. Come mealtime, what matters most is the animals' ability to accelerate and to take tight corners.