Bloomberg News

Republican politicians and activists can barely contain their glee at the simultaneous eruption of three major controversies about the Obama administration.

Conservatives are at a low boil over the administration’s dissembling about its actions after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The public is concerned about the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service. And even liberals are outraged by the administration’s heavy-handed investigations of leaks to the news media.

LOS ANGELES — Fox Broadcasting has unveiled nine prime-time programs for the 2013-2014 season, shaking up a schedule that has fallen into second place among key viewers after once dominating the ratings.

Five new comedies and four dramas will join the schedule, Kevin Reilly, chairman of entertainment for Fox, said in a statement. The Los Angeles-based network and other broadcasters are showing their new lineups to advertisers this week in an annual event known as the “upfronts.”

WASHINGTON — Human feces taints more than half of public swimming pools, a finding U.S. health officials are using to urge better personal hygiene as the summer months approach.

E. coli, which indicates the presence of fecal matter, was detected in 58 percent of samples taken from pool filters by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to data released Thursday by the Atlanta-based agency. Pools frequented mostly by children were more likely to test positive for E. coli, which can cause stomach and respiratory illness.

NEW YORK — Angelina Jolie says she had a double mastectomy after learning she has a gene mutation linked to breast cancer, the disease that killed her mother at age 56.

Writing in Tuesday’s New York Times, the Academy Award-winning actress said she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent chance of ovarian cancer before the surgery because of an inherited gene known as BRCA1.

“Once I knew that this was my reality, I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could,” wrote Jolie, 37. Three months of medical procedures for the mastectomies culminated with breast reconstruction and implant surgery on April 27, she said.

WASHINGTON — Retail sales unexpectedly rose in April, reflecting broad-based gains that may ease concerns consumers are holding back.

The 0.1 percent increase followed a 0.5 percent drop in March, Commerce Department figures showed Monday in Washington. The median forecast of 81 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 0.3 percent drop. The figures used to calculate growth, which exclude categories such as automobiles, also advanced.

BOSTON — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body has been buried in a Muslim cemetery near Richmond, Va., according to the death certificate filed at Boston’s city hall.

The Al-Barzakh Cemetery in Doswell accepted the body and is listed as the “place of disposition” on the document.