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Justice investigates IRS targeting of tea party
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is investigating the Internal Revenue Service for targeting tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax exempt status, Attorney General Eric Ho...
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Holder denies role in phone subpoena
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday defended the Justice Department’s secret examination of Associated Press phone records though he declared he had played no role in it, saying it...
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Associated Press O.J. Simpson (center) prepares to leave the courtroom with one of his attorneys, Ozzie Fumo, during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court on Monday in Las Vegas. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison as a result of his October 2008 conviction, is seeking a new trial.
OJ plays the odds in Vegas court
LAS VEGAS — A weary-looking O.J. Simpson weighed down by shackles and more than four years in prison shuffled into a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday hoping to eventually walk out a free man. His a...
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Associated Press Ambassador Thomas Pickering speaks on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday in Washington. Pickering and retired Adm. Mike Mullen led an investigation of the Benghazi attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three others. His report about security at the Benghazi outpost was highly critical, but he stands by his assessment that decisions about the consulate were made well below the Secretary of State level.
Republican investigation advances
WASHINGTON — House Republicans pushed ahead Monday with their investigation of the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year as President Barack Obama asserted tha...
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Kidnapping suspect faced prior complaints
CLEVELAND — A man charged with holding three women captive for about a decade had been accused of threatening his neighbors, attacking his common-law wife and committing violations during his caree...
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IRS: Top official told of targeting in 2012
WASHINGTON — Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven T. Miller failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted, even after he had been briefed on the m...
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Associated Press Isaiah Sabounjian (left) and brother Tyler Sabounjian make rubbings of their grandfather's name, Capitol Police Sgt. Christopher Eney, who was accidentally killed during a SWAT training exercise in Washington in 1984, after a ceremony honoring Eney on the 25th anniversary of his death at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington in 2009. Tough calls don't often confront the people responsible for deciding who belongs on a national memorial for officers killed in the line of duty. But recognizing fallen men and women in blue isn't always a black-and-white decision. The cases of two inductees this year highlight challenges for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. It holds a vigil today for 321 officers added to the wall.
Memorial comes with some tough calls
DETROIT — Deciding which police officers killed in the line of duty belong on a national memorial usually is driven by facts and presents few obstacles. But this year, two cases show that it isn’t ...
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Barber offers haircuts for hugs
HARTFORD, Conn. — Each Wednesday, barber Anthony Cymerys sets up his chair in the shade of an oak tree in Hartford’s Bushnell Park. For longtime clients, the homeless or those just down on their lu...
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Chairman: Clinton didn’t make Benghazi call
WASHINGTON — The seasoned diplomat who penned a highly critical report on security at a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, defended his scathing assessment but absolved then-Secretary of State Hillar...
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After 100 years, Rockefeller charities group remain active
NEW YORK — For the richest American family of their era, the goal was fittingly ambitious: “To promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world.” With that mission, underwritten by the vas...
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