Paul Bedard

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

The Internal Revenue Service, charged with implementing the biggest change in tax laws in 20 years due to Obamacare, has created eight offices and special "teams" to handle the chore, way more than initially revealed. Besides the top office headed by the woman in the middle of the IRS-Tea...

Joel Gehrke

Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

CIA officials do not have to release images of Osama bin Laden taken after his death at the hands of Navy Seals, a federal court ruled today, citing the likelihood that the images would provoke a terrorist attack. “As one of the judges on this panel suggested that the Benghazi attack was...

Conn Carroll

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

There is no better steward of American taxpayer dollars than Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. When Hurricane Sandy struck last year, he fought to eliminate non-emergency items from a supplemental disaster relief bill that included millions for road construction in states not affected by the hurricane....

Nikki Schwab

Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

Bartender Sambonn Lek was something of a fixture at the Mayflower Hotel's Town & Country bar. He poured strong drinks and did magic tricks for his patrons. But then, in January 2011, Town & Country closed its doors, and it wasn't until this March that another bar, Edgar Bar &...

Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy that it would be best to put off a controversy over gay marriage until a bill goes before the full Senate. President Barack Obama backs the proposal...

Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

The Mining Journal (Marquette). May 13. Using kids in drug stings not a good idea A downstate lawmaker's plans to introduce legislation barring the use of minors in drug stings seems a lot like common sense to us. State Sen. Mike Kowall, R-White Lake Township, says he will introduce the bill...

Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. It's the sense that a powerful someone is breathing down your neck. Republicans in Congress are livid with the IRS over its systematic scrutiny of conservative groups...

Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House adviser insisted Sunday that President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for more answers. Trying to move past a...

Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

Authorities: Hofstra University student killed in home invasion was fatally shot by police MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Hofstra University student being held at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to the home invasion at an off-campus home,...