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The House Oversight Committee will hold its latest hearing next week into how the IRS handled the applications of groups seeking tax exempt status. The hearings have morphed from a scandal over the targeting of Tea Party groups into something broader.

The "angular velocity sensors" were a critical part of the circuitry that was supposed to keep the rocket upright during launch. A young technician got the installation wrong, according to the site Russian Space Web.

In Sadr City, a bombing attack has killed dozens of people, with the death toll continuing to rise Saturday. Multiple reports are citing at least 65 deaths in the attack, one of several in Iraq today.

General Motors set a July sales record in China. That country is already the most important auto market in the world. It could be where GM maintains global dominance.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said the timing "could not be worse" and the decision to hold the drill was "just dumb." The airport apologized.

The 100 and 200 meters champion says he'd like to win gold at Rio de Janeiro and the Commonwealth Games before hanging up his spikes.

The third largest of the "big five" book publishers, was sold by its parent company to Penguin Random House.

Austin will bring to the Pentagon decades of military experience. He would be the first African American to lead the department.

The Supreme Court is honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a private ceremony and then a public viewing today. Ginsburg died on Friday. She was 87.

In his memoir A Promised Land, Obama tells the story of his political rise through the first two years of his presidency. Here, listen to excerpts from the book before its release on Tuesday.