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FBI ID's Benghazi suspects - but no arrests yet

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:51:49 -0400

WASHINGTON - The U.S. has identified five men who might be responsible for the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and has enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists, officials say. But there isn't enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.

Policy, discretion guide media sources probes

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:35:59 -0400

WASHINGTON - 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 Times and The Washington Post to apologize because the bureau had improperly obtained reporters' telephone records four years earlier.

AP CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:04:46 -0400

WASHINGTON - The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department.

Dems' Senate campaigns marked by internal battles

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:53:18 -0400

ATLANTA - Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.

Arrest in letters that threatened Wash. officials

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:49:17 -0400

OLYMPIA, Washington - Police have arrested a Bellingham, Washington, man accused of writing letters to a Washington state newspaper that contained threats to kill Gov. Jay Inslee, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama.

Wash. state releases draft rules for legal pot

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:35:23 -0400

SEATTLE - Officials in Washington state took their first stab at setting rules for the state's new marijuana industry Thursday, nearly eight months after voters here legalized pot for adults.

Tea Party groups from across the country tell their horror...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:50:44 -0400

WASHINGTON - By MICHAEL COLLINS

Obama walking a familiar path on IRS allegations

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:30:29 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service controversy dogging President Barack Obama is hardly the first time a White House and the tax agency have been accused of political meddling and bias. Nor is it the first time that political and social advocacy groups have searched for and exploited loopholes and fine points in the federal tax code.

Watch: Scandals will mire progress on bigger issues

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:47:06 -0400

WASHINGTON - By ANN McFEATTERS

A timeline of the IRS's scrutiny of the right

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:22:39 -0400

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 congressional inquiries, a Justice Department criminal investigation and the ouster of the agency's acting chief:

NH Sen. Shaheen: Audit IRS

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:07:40 -0400

BOSTON - New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on Wednesday called for a complete and thorough audit of the Internal Revenue Service.

Holder defends Perez's tenure at Justice Dept.

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:23:55 -0400

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder and a leading House Republican clashed Wednesday over the Justice Department's refusal to turn over the private emails of Thomas Perez, a top department official nominated to be labor secretary.

Holder defends subpoenas for AP telephone records

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:29:02 -0400

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Wednesday that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press as he stood by an investigation in which he insisted he had no involvement.

Holder says he played no role in AP phone subpoena

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:12:26 -0400

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 was justified as part of an investigation into a grave national security leak.

Trio of troubles threatening Obama's second term

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:04:45 -0400

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 pivot from a stinging defeat on that issue and push forward on others, the president finds himself rocked by multiple controversies that are demoralizing his allies, emboldening his political foes and posing huge distractions for all.

A look at statements about foiled terror plot

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:22:42 -0400

A look at the events and public statements surrounding an Associated Press story about a foiled plot to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner:

Ala group dropped tax-exempt bid amid IRS delays

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:50:39 -0400

MOBILE, Alabama - Faced with what seemed to activists like a curious amount of scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service and mounting expenses, an Alabama tea party group gave up its fight for tax-exempt status rather than answer yet another letter from the federal government.

Editorial: Obama making Bush look like model of...

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:01:48 -0400

An editorial / By Dale McFeatters - To a person, probably, most of Barack Obama's supporters believed -- a belief the candidate encouraged -- that, if elected, he would rein in the worst excesses of President George W. Bush's national-security strategy.

Gitmo prisoner: Obama has 'abandoned' detainees

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:24:36 -0400

WASHINGTON - A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison.

Atty Gen orders probe into IRS targeting groups

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:16:50 -0400

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder says he's ordered a Justice Department investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny.

89 charged in Medicare fraud busts in 8 cities

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:41:15 -0400

WASHINGTON - Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning eight cities, federal authorities said Tuesday.

RNC chairman says Holder should resign

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:42:20 -0400

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Republican National Committee says Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over the decision by the Justice Department to secretly obtain two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press.

Conn. senators seek answers on AP records' seizure

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:14:59 -0400

HARTFORD, Connecticut - Connecticut's two U.S. senators called on the Justice Department on Tuesday to explain its seizure of telephone records of Associated Press journalists and offices, including the news cooperative's bureau in Hartford.

Business frets at terrorism tag of Marathon attack

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:55:14 -0400

BOSTON - President Barack Obama's declaration that the Boston Marathon bombings were an act of terrorism could make it difficult for many affected businesses to be reimbursed for losses resulting from the explosions.

Mo. bill would nullify federal gun control laws

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:30:02 -0400

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri - The Missouri Legislature sent the governor a bill Wednesday that would expand gun rights and declare all federal gun regulations unenforceable, in a response to President Barack Obama's push for gun control legislation.