Syria opposition signals tough line on peace talks
Despite recent rebel setbacks in Syria's civil war, the main opposition bloc signaled a tough line Tuesday on attending possible peace talks with ...
Court: US can keep bin Laden photos under wraps
A federal appeals court Tuesday backed the U.S. government's decision not to release photos and video taken of Osama bin Laden during and after a raid ...
Former IRS chief: Can't say how targeting happened
The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status ...
Court strikes down Arizona 20-week abortion ban
A federal court in San Francisco Tuesday struck down Arizona's ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Apple's Cook faces Senate questions on taxes
Apple's CEO is disputing assertions by a Senate panel that the company avoids billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign ...
New Egypt tax law: cuts for poor, business hikes
Egypt's president has signed a new tax law that cuts the amount paid by poorer Egyptians while increasing taxes on small and medium-sized businesses.
How the French economy compares to Germany's, UK's
Here's how the struggling French economy stacks up compared to Germany's and Britain's. GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (2012) France: 2 trillion euros ($2.
Average credit card debt, late payments fall in 1Q
Americans got better about paying their credit card debt on time in the first three months of the year, a period when many borrowers use income tax ...
Policy, discretion guide media sources probes
It was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York ...
Guatemala top court overturns genocide conviction
Guatemala's top court has thrown another curve into the genocide case of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, overturning his conviction and ordering ...
More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told
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 ...
Lew taps government retiree pension fund
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said late Monday he will begin tapping into two government employee retirement funds to buy more time before the U.S.
Court decision pending in NYPD stop-and-frisk case
A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a polarizing tactic ...
Judge tosses ex-BP executive's obstruction charge
A federal judge has dismissed a charge that is the backbone of the case against a former BP executive accused of concealing information from Congress ...
Panel: Apple uses firms outside US to avoid taxes
Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate ...
House passes bill on lying about military medals
People who falsely claim they have received a military medal in order to obtain money or government benefits could face up to a year in jail under ...
NYPD messages to Muslim informant: 'Get pictures'
A New York Police Department detective told a federal judge that he's seen no evidence that one of his informants brought up the subject of jihad as ...
High court to weigh in on legislative prayers
The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open public ...
High court uphold FCC power in cell tower disputes
The Supreme Court has affirmed the authority of federal regulators to try to speed local government decisions on proposals to build or expand cell ...
Court: woman can seek lawyer fees in vaccine case
The Supreme Court says a woman can seek lawyers' fees from the government even though her lawsuit over damage she said was caused by a vaccine was ...
Court: Should whistleblower protection be wider?
The Supreme Court will decide if government whistleblower protection applies to employees of a privately-held contractor or the subcontractor of a ...
China sentences underground bank operator to death
A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death on charges of defrauding investors as the government tightens controls on informal ...
NY 'frisk' judge calls criticism 'below-the-belt'
The federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department has no doubt where she ...
Obama agenda marches on despite controversies
Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, ...
IRS probe ignored most influential groups
There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups. The nation's tax agency has admitted to inappropriately ...
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