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Holder: Four Americans killed overseas in drone strikes since 2009
Attorney General Eric Holder informed Congress on Wednesday that four Americans have been killed in drone strikes since 2009 – radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and three others who were “not specifically targeted.” More »Holder: Four Americans killed overseas in drone strikes since 2009
What’s next for the immigration reform bill?
It's been a good week for proponents of immigration reform. The sweeping bill that seeks to legalize most of the country's 11 million unauthorized immigrants … More »What’s next for the immigration reform bill?
IRS official Lois Lerner: ‘I have not done anything wrong’
Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official in charge of approving applications for tax-exempt status, denied wrongdoing in response to accusations that the … More »IRS official Lois Lerner: ‘I have not done anything wrong’
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Yahoo! News - 8 hrs agoWhat’s next for the immigration reform bill?
It's been a good week for proponents of immigration reform. The sweeping bill that seeks to legalize most of the country's 11 million unauthorized More »
The Ticket - 13 hrs agoHolder: U.S. killed four Americans overseas in drone strikes since 2009
Attorney General Eric Holder informed Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. has killed four Americans in drone strikes since 2009: radical cleric Anwar More »
The Ticket - 13 hrs agoCarney to press: ‘You’re good at your jobs and you’re smart’
Think of it as a sort of reverse birthday gift. After a tense few days in the White House Brady Press Briefing Room as the Internal Revenue Service More »
The Ticket - 14 hrs agoIRS official Lois Lerner: ‘I have not done anything wrong’
Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official in charge of approving applications for tax-exempt status, denied wrongdoing in response to accusations More »
The Ticket - 18 hrs agoWeiner announces he’s running for NYC mayor
Confirming the worst-kept secret in politics, former Rep. Anthony Weiner has announced he’s running for New York City mayor—telling voters that he wants a More »
The Ticket - 23 hrs agoCollege is expensive. And thanks to Washington, you might soon be paying more
For a talented, creative few, there’s David Letterman. For most, there’s a labyrinth of paperwork, hard decisions and painful sacrifices that could have More »
The Ticket - Wed, May 22, 2013IRS official Lerner refuses to testify before Congress
Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner, who leads the exempt organizations division under scrutiny for targeting conservative groups that applied More »
The Ticket - Tue, May 21, 2013Obama announces his election commission team
President Barack Obama on Tuesday filled out his Presidential Commission on Election Administration, which was created to improve election systems in the More »
The Ticket - Tue, May 21, 2013In tragedy, consolation only goes so far
When John Kennedy Jr., son of the former president, died with his wife and sister-in-law in a plane crash in 1999, I heard a well-known televangelist More »
Yahoo! News - Tue, May 21, 2013Former IRS commissioner: ‘Not personally responsible’ for creating the ‘Be On The Lookout’ list
Former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman said that he was "not personally responsible" for the agency's practice of placing elevated More »
The Ticket - Tue, May 21, 2013Senator accuses IRS officials of withholding information in 2012 about agency practices
Two top Internal Revenue Service officials knew that the agency was using a list to scrutinize applications for tax-exempt status that included the phrase More »
The Ticket - Tue, May 21, 2013Immigration reform bill largely untouched going into fifth day of debate
A bipartisan group of senators begins a fifth full day of debating changes to the immigration reform bill Tuesday. So far, the so-called mark-up process More »
The Ticket - Tue, May 21, 2013Obama offers prayers, federal support for Oklahoma following deadly tornado
President Barack Obama on Tuesday morning assured residents of Oklahoma that they have both the nation's support and the federal government's assistance More »
The Ticket - Tue, May 21, 2013Despite Rubio’s wooing, radio hosts protest immigration reform bill
Conservative radio talk show hosts have signed a letter opposing the sweeping immigration reform bill in the Senate, bucking tea party favorite Sen. Marco More »
The Ticket - Tue, May 21, 2013Obama directs FEMA to ready help for tornado-ravaged Oklahoma
President Barack Obama has been getting updates on the massive tornado that ravaged homes and schools near Oklahoma City and has directed the Federal More »
The Ticket - Mon, May 20, 2013Obama to meet Chinese President Xi in June
President Barack Obama will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time on June 7-8 in California, the White House announced on Monday. The More »
The Ticket - Mon, May 20, 2013GOP official: ‘Institutional barriers’ remain for Republican women seeking office
The Republican Party is actively working to recruit more women to run for public office, but they still face "institutional barriers" to getting involved More »
The Ticket - Mon, May 20, 2013Obama to visit Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania from June 26 to July 3, the White House announced on More »
The Ticket - Mon, May 20, 2013White House chief of staff McDonough, others knew of IRS investigation
It seems we didn't know the whole story about what the White House knew when about the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of conservatives. And More »
The Ticket - Mon, May 20, 2013Fox News: Government spying on reporter ‘downright chilling’
Fox News on Monday angrily denounced the Justice Department’s “downright chilling” decision to target of one of its reporters, James Rosen, in a national More »
The Ticket - Mon, May 20, 2013USCIS union president fights immigration reform bill
The president of a union that represents 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees announced his opposition to the immigration reform More »
The Ticket - Mon, May 20, 2013Obama administration spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen: Report
The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of More »
The Ticket - Mon, May 20, 2013McConnell: ‘There is a culture of intimidation throughout the administration’
Republican Senators Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Rob Portman continued Sunday to press the Obama administration on the Internal Revenue Service scandal More »
The Ticket - Sun, May 19, 2013Obama delivers Morehouse commencement
President Barack Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies—IRS, Department of Justice, Benghazi—swirling around the White House on Sunday to More »
The Ticket - Sun, May 19, 2013
Scout’s Honor? Gay rights advocate seeks to overturn ban on gay Boy Scouts
Top Line As the Boy Scouts of America prepares to vote tomorrow on a proposal that would change its long-standing policy of excluding gay boys from Scout More »
Power Players - 23 hrs agoSen. Jeff Sessions almost single-handedly trying to derail ‘Gang of Eight’ immigration bill
Power Players When it comes to immigration reform, perhaps no senator has been more vocal about their displeasure with the newest bill, drafted by the More »
Power Players - Tue, May 21, 2013Michele Bachmann: The IRS targeting of Tea Party groups tied to Obama’s political agenda
The Fine Print As the chair of the Tea Party Caucus, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R – Minn.) is railing against the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups, saying: More »
Power Players - Mon, May 20, 2013Leader of targeted Tea Party group ‘pissed off’ by IRS’s questioning, calls it a ‘fishing expedition’
Top Line Susan McLaughlin knows first-hand what it’s like to be targeted by the IRS. Her Tea Party group in Liberty Township, Ohio was among those More »
Power Players - Fri, May 17, 2013Sorting through the scandals: What’s at stake for the IRS, DOJ and the White House
BOTTOM LINE Controversy has been the word this week Washington as the White House has grappled with the fallout from Benghazi, the IRS scandal and the More »
Power Players - Thu, May 16, 2013Chairman leading Friday showdown on Hill: There’s a ‘culture of rot’ at IRS
The Fine Print One of the lawmakers leading the search for answers in the IRS investigation into how Tea Party groups were treated is Rep. Charles More »
Power Players - Thu, May 16, 2013Iran hostages locked in struggle for compensation, tell their story of “colossal injustice”
Politics Confidential Hollywood portrays the Iran hostage crisis as a thriller story with a triumphant ending in the film “Argo.” But the real story of More »
Power Players - Wed, May 15, 2013Fmr. Sen. Jim DeMint: $6.3 trillion immigration price tag ‘irrefutable’
The Fine Print Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R – S.C.) is standing by the controversial Heritage Foundation study that put a $6.3 trillion price tag on the More »
Power Players - Tue, May 14, 2013Bringing beauty to a cause, Charlize Theron lobbies for an AIDS-free generation
Top Line When Charlize Theron came to Capitol Hill recently, she undoubtedly turned a few heads. But the Academy Award-winning actress didn’t come to be More »
Power Players - Mon, May 13, 2013Like mother like son: Prince Harry carries on legacy of Princess Diana to rid world of landmines
Power Players Prince Harry made a visit to Capitol Hill yesterday to tour an exhibit on landmines, a cause dear to the heart of his late mother Princess More »
Power Players - Fri, May 10, 2013Politicians weighing in: Do pounds matter?
Bottom Line This week New Jersey Governor Chris Christie revealed that he underwent Lap-Band surgery in February. Christie says his decision to have the More »
Power Players - Thu, May 9, 2013Tea Party leader: Lindsey Graham “begging for a primary” challenge
Top Line FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe has a warning for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and other GOP incumbents up for reelection in the 2014: don’t More »
Power Players - Wed, May 8, 2013Gen. Dempsey: China takes no ownership of cyber attack on U.S.
On the Radar The Pentagon officially blamed China of cyber attacks against the United States in a new report, but America's top military official Gen. More »
Power Players - Tue, May 7, 2013What a waste: Four easy cuts to save us $27.5 billion
Power Players Government buildings sitting empty and unused, many flights to rural airports that carry practically no passengers, and minimum milk prices More »
Power Players - Mon, May 6, 2013Out there: Former Sen. Mike Gravel says White House suppressing evidence of ETs
Top Line Even as most Americans wonder what planet politicians are from, is it possible that the government is squelching evidence of extraterrestrials More »
Power Players - Fri, May 3, 2013Red line crossed in Syria: What would intervention look like?
Last week intelligence officials assessed “with varying degrees of confidence” that chemical weapons had been used in the country—a possible game changer More »
Power Players - Thu, May 2, 2013Young minds with big ideas: Meet the whiz kids of the White House Science Fair
Politics Confidential 10-year-old Evan Jackson had just made a touchdown in his football game, but he had to be pulled off to the sideline because he had More »
Power Players - Wed, May 1, 2013A trippy idea or fiscal genius? Two pols idea to smoke away the deficit
Top Line What if the United States could shrink the federal deficit and get high at the same time? Two congressmen calling for the legalization of More »
Power Players - Tue, Apr 30, 2013Game changer: Maj. Gen. Abrams on the “homegrown” rejection of Taliban in Afghanistan
On the Radar Maj. Gen. Robert B. Abrams, the top U.S. and NATO commander in southern Afghanistan, is confident the country won’t fall back into the grips More »
Power Players - Mon, Apr 29, 2013Karl Rove on Bush legacy: “He got the big things right”
Politics Confidential Karl Rove, who has been described by former President George W. Bush as “the architect” of his 2000 and 2004 election victories, More »
Power Players - Fri, Apr 26, 2013Laura Bush: The 9/11 exhibit at new Bush museum brings her, George W. Bush to tears
Top Line Talking to ABC’s Diane Sawyer during a special tour of the newly opened George W. Bush Library, former First Lady Laura Bush says she and her More »
Power Players - Thu, Apr 25, 2013Boston Marathon bombings unlikely to affect gun control, immigration reform going forward
BOTTOM LINE New information is coming to light every day in the on-going investigation into the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15th. But there More »
Power Players - Thu, Apr 25, 2013Former Obama Staffer Leads White House Protests Against Pipeline
Power Players Environmental activists are turning up the heat on President Obama as he faces what could be the trickiest decision of his second term: More »
Power Players - Wed, Apr 24, 2013Robert Redford: We need more Woodwards & Bernsteins
Top Line It’s been more than 40 years since Watergate, but the old story—and its characters—made news once again with the Washington premiere of Robert More »
Power Players - Tue, Apr 23, 2013Gov. Brewer: Federal government not doing enough to secure Arizona’s border
Power Players As the Senate moves to consider the “Gang of 8” immigration reform bill, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is calling on the federal government to More »
Power Players - Mon, Apr 22, 2013
How many students from your school take out loans?
Every school that participates in the federal loan program reports figures like these to the Department of Education. The following interactive plots More »
Yahoo! News - 8 hrs agoWhat’s next for the immigration reform bill?
It's been a good week for proponents of immigration reform. The sweeping bill that seeks to legalize most of the country's 11 million unauthorized More »
The Ticket - 13 hrs agoHolder: U.S. killed four Americans overseas in drone strikes since 2009
Attorney General Eric Holder informed Congress on Wednesday that the U.S. has killed four Americans in drone strikes since 2009: radical cleric Anwar More »
The Ticket - 13 hrs agoCarney to press: ‘You’re good at your jobs and you’re smart’
Think of it as a sort of reverse birthday gift. After a tense few days in the White House Brady Press Briefing Room as the Internal Revenue Service More »
The Ticket - 14 hrs agoIRS official Lois Lerner: ‘I have not done anything wrong’
Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official in charge of approving applications for tax-exempt status, denied wrongdoing in response to accusations More »
The Ticket - 18 hrs agoIRS' Lois Lerner Takes Fifth, Shuns Congress
Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service’s director of Exempt Organizations who is at the center of the controversy after the agency targeted More »
ABC News - 14 hrs agoIRS 'Blemish' Prompts Scorn From Senators
Douglas Shulman, the former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, said today he was “dismayed and saddened” that his agency had improperly More »
ABC News - Tue, May 21, 2013Christie Stars in NJ Tourism Ads, Dems Cry Foul
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and his family are starring in television commercials that are part of a publicly funded $25 million tourism campaign to More »
ABC News - Mon, May 20, 2013GOP Lieutenant Governor Candidate in Va. Compares Planned Parenthood to KKK
This weekend, Virginia Republicans found their candidate for lieutenant governor in E.W. Jackson, a Chesapeake, Va. pastor who has compared Planned More »
ABC News - Mon, May 20, 2013Republicans Informed of IRS Investigation Last Year
Much has been made of the fact that senior Treasury Department officials were told about the investigation into the treatment of tea party groups in June More »
ABC News - Sun, May 19, 2013US, Israel raise hopes for Mideast peace restart
JERUSALEM (AP) — The United States and Israel raised hopes Thursday for a restart of the Middle East peace process, despite little tangible progress so More »
AP - 1 hr 28 mins agoHouse to vote on variable rate student loans
WASHINGTON (AP) — House lawmakers are ready to pass legislation that links student loan rates to the financial markets in spite of a veto threat from More »
AP - 2 hrs 31 mins agoTea party storm largely inside IRS _ so far
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days of congressional hearings about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups have lawmakers More »
AP - 2 hrs 32 mins agoObama to push for transparency in face of threats
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid lingering concerns about his national security policies, President Barack Obama is outlining measures to clarify the deadly use of More »
AP - 2 hrs 47 mins agoBetween economy and trouble, Obama approval steady
WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy is recovering, the White House is dealing with multiple controversies, and President Barack Obama appears generally More »
AP - 2 hrs 50 mins agoHouse to Vote for Seventh Time on Keystone Project, With Same Result Likely
For the seventh time in two years, the House passed legislation on Wednesday approving the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,700-mile project to carry heavy oil More »
National Journal - 8 hrs agoState of Play: Where the IRS Case Stands After 3 Hearings
Three IRS hearings are in the books. Two senior IRS officials are on their way out. And one key witness has invoked the Fifth Amendment. More »
National Journal - 11 hrs agoThis Indie Rocker-Turned-Congressman Is Ready to Make His Name on Immigration Reform
With a district that essentially includes both Texas and Mexico, there aren't a lot of lawmakers more interested in immigration reform than freshman Rep. More »
National Journal - 11 hrs agoGOP’s Switch on Financial Disclosure Wins Gold Medal in Hypocrisy Olympics
First, let me be clear: There has been political intimidation of the Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies for partisan purposes. More »
National Journal - 11 hrs agoPortland’s Decision to Forgo Fluoride May End Up Costing $11.3 Million a Year
Oregon is ranked the fifth-worst state for tooth decay, and on Wednesday voters of Portland may have missed an opportunity to change that. More »
National Journal - 12 hrs agoSen. Ted Cruz Refuses to Play the Game: ‘Let Me Be Clear, I Don’t Trust the Republicans’
"Unfortunately, one of the reasons we got into this mess is because a lot of Republicans were complicit in this spending spree." More »
The Blaze - 8 hrs agoNew Yorkers Weigh Anthony Weiner's Bid for Political Salvation
Former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, who infamously fled Congress after his sexting and Twitter scandals two years ago, told New Yorkers this week he More »
Yahoo! Contributor Network - 11 hrs agoJohn McCain Is the Latest Senior Senator to Have Had Enough of Junior Ted Cruz
For two days John McCain and Ted Cruz have been fighting on the Senate floor over the rules for negotiating a budget, but, like so many fights, it's also More »
The Atlantic Wire - 12 hrs agoInside Darrell Issa's Sketchy Legal Rationale Forcing Lois Lerner to Testify
Darrell Issa would like a do-over. The Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, no doubt motivated in part by outrage over his allowing the IRS's Lois More »
The Atlantic Wire - 13 hrs agoYes, America Says: America Drones the American People
The U.S. government admitted for the first time Wednesday that it intentionally droned American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen in 2011, and that it More »
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