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A timeline of the IRS's scrutiny of the right
A look at events leading to the disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service placed conservative groups under special scrutiny for 18 months before the 2012 elections, a practice that has prompted ...
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Associated Press President Barack Obama walks on May 9 from the Oval Office in Washington to board Marine One.
Trio of troubles threatens 2nd term
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama seemed to lose control of his second-term agenda even before he was sworn in, when a school massacre led him to lift gun control to the fore. Now, as he tries to...
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Convicted abortion physician gets life
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies born alive at his rogue clinic dodged a possible death sentence Tuesday in a hasty post-verdict deal with prosecutors...
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Senators tackle student visas
WASHINGTON — Citing problems exposed by the Boston Marathon bombings, senators weighing amendments to a sweeping immigration bill agreed Tuesday to boost security provisions around student visas. ...
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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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