PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Carnegie Mellon University student was charged Friday with indecent exposure by campus police after a Catholic bishop complained about her parading nude from the waist down while dressed as the pope.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, Pakistan holds historic elections Saturday pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led House of Representatives will investigate the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups during last year's election campaign, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said on Friday. "The IRS cannot target or intimidate any individual or organization based on their political beliefs. The House will investigate this matter," Cantor said. (Reporting By Thomas Ferraro; editing by Christopher Wilson)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says it was inappropriate for the Internal Revenue Service to target tea party groups for additional reviews during last year's presidential election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.

GENEVA (AP) — A summit on chemicals and hazardous wastes ended Friday with an agreement to globally phase out a widely used flame retardant and to accept stricter requirements for disclosing information about exports of four other chemicals.

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball admitted Friday that umpires made a mistake for the second straight day, this time when they messed up by allowing Astros manager Bo Porter to switch relievers in the middle of an inning.

OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) — Crews on foot, horseback and all-terrain vehicles resumed their search Friday for an 18-month-old girl who is presumed dead after the bodies of her mother and two men were found at an eastern Kansas farm.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration has sufficient funds to keep 149 low activity contract towers originally slated for closure in June open for the remainder of fiscal year 2013, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement. LaHood said the FAA would also put $10 million towards reducing cuts and delays in a new air traffic control program that is being installed around the country, and planned to use an additional $11 million of its funding to partially restore its support of infrastructure in the national airspace system. ...

PALMDALE, Calif. (AP) — Southern California authorities have released the name of a jogger who was killed by pit bulls in a Mojave Desert community.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A friend says the grandson of political activist Malcolm X died after he was beaten up during a dispute over a bill at a Mexico City bar.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government reported a rare surplus of $113 billion for April — the largest in five years and a sign of the nation's improving finances.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday canceled budget-driven plans to close 149 air traffic control towers at smaller U.S. airports, two weeks after Congress passed legislation to end furloughs of air traffic controllers. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said federal officials determined the legislation gave the FAA enough flexibility to keep funding the towers, which had been scheduled to be shut down in June for several months to save money. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Britain's Prince Harry saluted America's war dead in somber remembrance at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, pausing, too, to place flowers on the tombstone of President John F. Kennedy and visit the grave of a British World War II hero buried far from home.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rosanne Cash has been a New Yorker for two decades, but her latest project is taking her out of the city.

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Michelle Knight, the longest-held captive in a dungeon-like Cleveland house, has been discharged from the hospital, the MetroHealth Medical Center said on Friday. The two other women held with Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, along with a 6-year-old girl, left the hospital earlier this week and have been reunited with their families. (Reporting by Kim Palmer, Editing by Paul Thomasch and Gerald E. McCormick)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Park Geun-hye fired her chief spokesman because of what her office said Friday was a "disgraceful incident" during Park's trip to the United States, in what could be a domestic blow after an otherwise widely praised appearance in Washington.

WARSAW/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister said on Friday Moscow had no new plans to sell an advanced air defense system to Syria, but left open the possibility it could deliver such systems under an existing contract. The Wall Street Journal this week reported that Israel had informed the United States a Russian deal was imminent to sell S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to the government of President Bashar al-Assad. That would significantly boost Syria's ability to stave off outside intervention in its civil war, such as the air strikes launched by Israel this month. ...

By Jessica Donati and Ghaith Shennib TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Bombs exploded outside two police stations in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi on Friday and Britain temporarily cut staff at its embassy in Tripoli because of security fears. The blasts, which caused damage but no casualties, were the latest signs of insecurity in Benghazi, the birthplace of the uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The government has also struggled to keep order in the capital Tripoli, where the French embassy was bombed less than three weeks ago. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury says it took in a surplus of $113 billion in April, the largest in five years. That lowered the federal deficit through the first seven months of the budget year and kept it on pace to be the smallest since 2008.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The man accused of holding three women captive for a decade in his home terrorized the mother of his children, frequently beating her, playing twisted psychological games and locking her indoors, her relatives say.