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Internal Revenue Service officials not only wanted a wide variety of information from the Albuquerque Tea Party's application for non-profit status, it also wanted to know what contacts it had with people from other political organizations too. That included an 83-year-old great-grandmother...

Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative tea party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harrassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012. More recently, Ingram was promoted to serve as director...

More than $92 million in bonuses averaging $5,500 per employee have been handed out by IRS executives to thousands of the tax agency’s employees since 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner.

Governments and green groups all across America are gobbling up private land in a determined and often coordinated effort to forever restrict responsible development and restrict private property rights. And American taxpayers help fund it. Here's how it works: Private property owners,...

SANTA FE - Government entities be warned: Fail to submit an audit to New Mexico and say good-bye to some of that state money you want. Earlier this month, Gov. Susana Martinez issued an executive order barring any governmental entity that isn't up to date on its audits from receiving any...

Tullahoma, a city of only 18,000 residents, has invested $17 million of taxpayer money in ultra-high-speed Internet in hopes of attracting business to the small Tennessee town. But, as city leaders tout the potential economic benefits of the service known as Gigabit Internet, critics question...