NEWSMAX: …The study published by Brown University this week focused on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and counter-terrorism campaigns in Pakistan and Yemen, which came in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

Some Church officials, speaking privately, have said foreign cardinals coming to Rome to choose the next pope have been alarmed over reports of corruption and might be inclined to elect someone not connected with the Curia, which is predominantly Italian…

CBS NEWS: Six underground tanks that hold a brew of radioactive and toxic waste at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, federal and state officials said Friday, prompting calls for an investigation from a key senator.

HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS / AP: The story has more irony than a Greek tragedy. Three sisters from a devoutly Catholic family have seen their personal and political careers ruined by a scandal that began with, of all things, a letter to some nuns.

BACKWARDS: In an intriguing political development, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent a full afternoon of an important diplomatic trip to the nation’s capital cleaning and polishing President Obama’s car.

LEHIGH VALLEY EXPRESS TIMES EDITORIAL: …But there’s no sting in Thornburgh’s findings, because Paterno’s failing seems to be one of omission: He apparently didn’t tell anyone to investigate, either, and didn’t follow up in any emphatic way.

The January donations came in at a faster-than-average clip for the NRA Political Victory Fund. It earned $14.4 million in total donations in 2011 and 2012, including $1.8 million in August 2012…

Although the jury deadlocked on one charge of official oppression, Melvin, 56, will likely be stripped of her seat on the state’s highest court, and will likely lose her pension.

Oceana’s volunteers collected fish samples at 674 supermarkets, restaurants and sushi counters in 21 states and found several examples of fish fraud. For instance, 87% of the snapper samples were not snapper. White tuna was mislabeled 59% of the time. Between one-third and one-fifth of the halibut, grouper, cod and Chilean sea bass tested were mislabeled…

According to Politico, Scott said, “While the federal government is committed to paying 100 percent of the cost of new people in Medicaid, I cannot in good conscience deny the uninsured access to care.” He is the seventh Republican governor to accept the expansion…

NEWSMAX: …”We will take an offer with us which we believe to be a substantial and serious offer,” the diplomat said of talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan. “This is an offer which we think has significant new elements in it.”

Corbett can blame himself for creating the conditions for such a legal and political rebuke. The governor avoided oversight by lawmakers during the months it took him to find and reach a contract with a private operator. And he ended up with a total of one corporate prospect, depriving the process of the benefits of competition…