Israeli seeks interim deal with Palestinians
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's senior coalition partner says that reaching a final peace agreement with the Palestinians is unrealistic at the ...
Treasury officials told of IRS probe in June 2012
Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being ...
Obama picks budget official to run troubled IRS
President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day ...
Second court invalidates Obama recess appointment
A second federal appeals court has found that President Barack Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to install a member to the ...
Congress rethinks 9/11 law on military force
Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how ...
Obama walking a familiar path on IRS allegations
The Internal Revenue Service controversy dogging President Barack Obama is hardly the first time a White House and the tax agency have been accused ...
AP source: Obama to tap Werfel as acting IRS head
President Barack Obama will appoint senior White House budget officer Daniel Werfel to be acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, a White ...
IRS commissioner ousted over tea party targeting
Hurrying to check a growing controversy, President Barack Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service late Wednesday amid an ...
Obama: IRS acting commissioner being ousted
President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced the ouster of the top official at the Internal Revenue Service following disclosures that the agency ...
Senate votes to extend federal water projects law
The Senate on Wednesday put aside its partisan differences to extend the federal government's main water resources law, which promotes investment in ...
Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind
Senate panel approves massive farm bill
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday approved a massive five-year farm bill that would cut spending while also creating new subsidies for ...
IRS chief: Agency lacked sensitivity in screenings
The IRS acting chief acknowledged Tuesday that the agency demonstrated "a lack of sensitivity" in its screenings of political groups seeking ...
Top IRS official didn't reveal tea party targeting
The IRS acting chief acknowledged Tuesday that the agency demonstrated "a lack of sensitivity" in its screenings of political groups seeking ...
Gates: No to direct military involvement in Syria
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he thinks direct U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war — particularly direct military involvement — would ...
AP Exclusive: IRS knew tea party targeted in 2011
Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general's ...
April surplus of $113B lowers US budget deficit
The U.S. government reported a rare surplus of $113 billion for April — the largest in five years and a sign of the nation's improving finances.
Appeals court strikes down union poster rule
In another blow to the nation's dwindling labor unions, an appeals court on Tuesday struck down a federal rule that would have required millions of ...
Readying new Syria push, US feels out Russia again
The Obama administration is trying to leverage new evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons, and make a fresh ...
Cruz urges GOP to work together for Senate control
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is urging Republicans to work together to help the party take back the Senate next year, telling South Carolina Republicans that, ...
US orders new visa reviews for arriving students
The Homeland Security Department ordered border agents to verify that every international student who arrives in the U.S. has a valid student visa, ...
Congressman, former lobbyist get housing, FCC nods
President Barack Obama acted Wednesday to fill two top regulatory posts, tapping a veteran Democratic congressman to lead the Federal Housing Finance ...
Gitmo closure elusive, Obama looks at other steps
Despite President Barack Obama's new vow, closing the Guantanamo Bay prison is still a tough sell in Congress. So the White House may look instead ...
Local setbacks vex GOP governors eyeing 2016 race
Republican governors are often seen as innovative policymakers and potential presidential candidates, but a few are struggling with political or ...
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