| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Poor management at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service played a major role in IRS agents subjecting conservative political groups' applications for tax-exempt status to extra scrutiny, said a report from a government watchdog group obtained by Reuters on Tuesday. T... |
| By Charles Abbott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a farm bill on Tuesday, costing $500 billion over a decade, that would expand the scope of the federally subsidized crop insurance program and modestly trim spending on food stamps for the poor. ... |
| By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. think tank on Tuesday recommended Congress suspend trade benefits for India, in the latest sign of U.S. frustration over Indian policies that block American exports and free ride on costly U.S. research to develop new medicines and other forms... |
| By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn spoke out on Tuesday about her decade-long struggle with bulimia and alcohol abuse after her mother's death from breast cancer. It was such a challenging time, and it was a time whe... |
| By Caren Bohan and Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, who is considered crucial for the success of an immigration law overhaul, on Tuesday vowed to fight for a biometric system to track foreigners leaving the country after a Senate panel rejected ... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that Congress is fully capable of handling by itself an investigation of the Internal Revenue Service. McConnell made the comment when asked by reporters if he saw any need to have a special prosecutor n... |
| By David Ingram and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday he had ordered the FBI to open a criminal probe in a growing scandal over the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for extra tax scrutiny. ... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican on the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee said on Tuesday it was time for the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, to leave his post amid a growing controversy over IRS scrutiny of conservative groups. He basically misled ... |
| By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An outspoken freshman senator with a record of taking on Wall Street wants financial regulators and federal prosecutors to provide an economic justification for allowing big banks to settle investigations without admitting any wrongdoing. ... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that the national security information leak that prompted the Department of Justice to seize Associated Press phone records was among the most serious breaches he has ever seen. Holder told a news conference he was ce... |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that he recused himself from the Justice Department's controversial decision to secretly seize telephone records of the Associated Press. Instead, the decision to seek the media records was made by the deputy attorney ... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Cole declined on Tuesday to return to the Associated Press seized telephone records that U.S. prosecutors obtained while investigating a national security leak in 2012. Acting in place of Attorney General Eric Holder, who recused hi... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the Internal Revenue Service over its targeting of certain groups, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday. Holder said reports that the tax auditing agency held cer... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House, under pressure from reports that the Justice Department seized Associated Press phone records, said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama is seeking to balance support for a free press with the need to investigate leaks of classified information. T... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a $500 billion farm bill on Tuesday that would expand spending on the federally subsidized crop insurance program by 10 percent and trim spending slightly on food stamps for the poor. The bill now goes to the Senate floor, wh... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The decision to seek media records in connection with a probe into an unauthorized disclosure of classified information was made by a deputy attorney general because Attorney General Eric Holder was recused from the matter, a Justice Department official said on Tuesday. ... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House, under pressure over reports that the Department of Justice tracked Associated Press phone records, said on Tuesday that President Barack Obama strongly supports the freedom of the press. The president believes that the press as a rule needs to have ... |
| By Tabassum Zakaria and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was likely to face a storm of questions on Tuesday over the Justice Department's controversial decision to seize telephone records of the Associated Press, a move denounced by critics as a g... |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called on President Barack Obama on Tuesday to make all who knew about the Internal Revenue Service scandal available for questioning, and said there should be no more stonewalling. With Congress getting ready to hold hearin... |
| STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will announce in the next few weeks how many combat troops the United States will leave in Afghanistan in 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday. Obama has set next year as the target for withdrawing most troops but the decision is ... |
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